Just had my latest paper published in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management: Cox, T. (2011), Exposing the true risks of capitation financed healthcare. Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, 30: 34–41. doi: 10.1002/jhrm.20066 The key points: Small insurers are inefficient insurers: They have lower probabilities of achieving modest profit goals, higher probabilities of incurring operating losses, and… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
The Washington Post had a story yesterday that should raise some concerns, for a day or two: “US Health Care System Unprepared for Major Nuclear Emergency, Officials Say” As I suggested in another post, it is difficult, if not impossible to be prepared for a catastrophe when our health care facilities are barely handling routine… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
I was just thinking about a new paper in the American Journal of Managed Care: ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Regulating the Medical Loss Ratio: Implications for the Individual Market Jean M. Abraham, PhD; and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, PhD (Am J Manag Care. 2011;17(3):211-218) “Results:In 2009, using a PPACA-adjusted MLR definition, we estimated that 29% of insurer-state observations in the… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
Was just reading: “Bringing Values Back Into Evidence-Based Nursing: The Role of Patients in Resisting Empiricism” by Porter, O’Halloran, and Morrow. What a great article. Nails a number of things that I have been tangentially interested in. Without in any way suggesting a deficit it was interesting to me that little attention seemed to be… [Read more…]
April 28, 2011
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