Healthcare Reform

For 15 years, I’ve been a freelance consultant. I’ve learned to navigate the treacherous terrain of self-employment—the feast-or-famine income cycles,...

Introduction: A Lifeline and a Lightning Rod The question "is Medicaid bad" is deceptively simple. It probes at the heart...

I still remember the sting of that $4,000 lesson. As a newly self-employed analyst, I was navigating the Affordable Care...

Part I: The View from the Unfinished Bridge Introduction: A Policy Analyst's Frustration and a Father's Fear For years, I...

Introduction The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, represents the most significant...

The Advisor's Dilemma: A Broken Compass in a High-Stakes Maze Introduction - The Failure That Forced a Reckoning For more...

Part 1: The Myth of the Savvy Shopper: Why Standard Advice Fails Introduction - My Mother, a Prescription, and the...

Introduction: A Kafkaesque Ordeal The experience was, in the words of the American Medical Association’s president, “Kafkaesque”.1 Dr. Jack Resneck...

Introduction: The Analyst's Dead End For years, my world was built of data. As a health policy analyst, I lived...

Introduction: The World Before the Lifeline Before 2010, the individual health insurance market in the United States was, for millions,...