September 2019

Katy Talento takes on JUULtria in this piece in The Federalist questioning why social conservatives don’t stand up to Big Tobacco for the sake of ending youth vaping. She argues that the Trump policy of banning fruity flavors should be embraced by anyone who thinks both the law and justice demand that public health policy put the […]

On-site clinics at retailers can create high-value, incentive-aligned care for workers, and pay for themselves by opening up services to the public as well. If the clinicians at those clinics are paid to keep people healthy, charge zero or low cost-sharing, and refer out to only high-performing specialists and directly-contracted acute care, employers can easily save double digits, avoid bankrupting enrollees with

Katy Talento joins Dr. Josh Luke for a 2-part interview (plus a bonus round) on price transparency, lobbying opposition to surprise billing solutions, the Trump campaign, tax-exempt status for hospitals, and how patients can save money today.  Part 1 Part 2 Bonus round

Wonderful encapsulation of the reasons behind the Great-Again Health Care movement (our name, not his!) by the inestimable Marty Makary, MD, whose new book, The Price We Pay: What Broke America’s Health Care System and How to Fix It, is a game-changer. Advance copies were passed around the White House and HHS/DOL leadership during the past year and was quite

Katy Talento joins the Johns Hopkins University Cost and Quality in Health Care Research Group, as co-author of a new report: The True Cost of Health Care: An Analysis of Americans’ Total Health Care Spend, showing how almost half of federal expenditures (low estimate!) are actually spent on health care. Are we getting our money’s worth, given that credible estimates put the amount of overtreatment, undertreatment, sub-par treatment, misdiagnosis and outright fraud at