‘Time to Rethink What Healthcare Does, and Doesn’t Do,’ Says Lown Chief

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/quality/time-rethink-what-healthcare-does-and-doesnt-do-says-lown-chief

Vikas Saini, MD

“There really needs to be an alliance among patients, families, and communities. At the end of the day, they get to decide what is the right care,” says Vikas Saini, MD, president of the Lown Institute.

Bad debt on the rise for hospitals nationally: 4 takeaways

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/bad-debt-on-the-rise-for-hospitals-nationally-4-takeaways.html

Bad Debt

A Voter’s Guide To The Health Law Chatter

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/06/465739617/a-voter-s-guide-to-the-health-law-chatter?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Benchmarking

High-Deductible Health Plans

http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?brief_id=152

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Increased cost sharing does NOT make better health care shoppers

Increased cost sharing does NOT make better health care shoppers.

Cost of Care

Skin in the game

Six economic facts about health care and health insurance markets after the Affordable Care Act

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2015/09/6-health-care-facts

Self-Discovery

The Hamilton Project offers six economic facts that highlight continuing challenges and complexities in health care and health insurance markets on which the policy debate should focus.

Obamacare architect: High-deductible plans overdone

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/20/obamacare-architect-high-deductible-plans-overdone.html

Cost of Care