health care

TALENTO: Power to the People – a Plea to the New Congress

Congress is currently all spun up trying desperately to elect a Speaker of the House. When they’re ready to get to work, AllBetter CEO Katy Talento has published a prescription for a bipartisan health care agenda in the Jewish Policy Center’s journal. As you might imagine, the agenda centers around AllBetter values of transparency, fairness, eliminating conflicts of interest, and re-aligning incentives.

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NYT and WSJ: “Non-Profit” Hospitals Are Actually Bond Villains

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both released a bombshell series of reports, called They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay, Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care and Hospitals Often Don’t Help Needy Patients, Even Those Who Qualify. These investigations describe a

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The FAIR PRICE PLAYBOOK: Don’t Pay an Unfair Price You Never Agreed to In Advance

Hospitals send you bills with demands to pay their rates as if you entered into a contract. If you never signed a form prior to treatment agreeing to pay whatever your insurance does not cover, then you did NOT enter into a contract. However, most of us DO sign those forms. Hospitals count on using

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