What I’m Reading: The New York Times

For many consumers, the sticker shock is coming not on the front end, when they purchase Affordable Care Act plans, but when they get sick and are hit by sky-high deductibles.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/us/politics/many-say-high-deductibles-make-their-health-law-insurance-all-but-useless.html

 

 

 

 

What I’m Reading: The Kansas City Star

 

Anyone else angered by the continued "ruse" of characterizing the working poor in this country as the "refusing to work" poor?

 

Gov. Sam Brownback’s missive on Medicaid expansion was wrong, cruel and divisive

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

If this is how much trouble I have navigating a simple refilling of my medication, I don’t know how the rest of America does it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/upshot/trapped-in-the-system-a-sick-doctors-story.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

Disney was constantly reinventing his company, a practice that drove his more business-minded brother crazy but ultimately helped his studio thrive.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/business/media/walt-disney-a-visionary-who-was-crazy-like-a-mouse.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

 

The economic impact of a rural community hospital closure is bigger than the sum of the statistical parts. Towns die. People die. Family owned farms and businesses disintegrate. Families disintegrate. Call it the trickle down effect.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/30-rural-hospitals-in-2-states-at-risk-of-closing.html

 

 

 

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

Australia and Switzerland have found ways to avoid ridiculously high prices while still protecting profits and incentives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/opinion/the-solution-to-drug-prices.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: Becker's Hospital Review

You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Perhaps our politicians will be forced to catch up to our reality. We can follow the money. Why can't they?

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/drug-costs-are-bigger-concern-for-republican-voters-than-aca-repeal-poll-finds.html