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The Limits of Disclosure and the Power of the Outside Option: A Case for External Reference Pricing in Healthcare
By DAVID INTROCASO & ADAM CUNNINGHAM For over a decade, federal healthcare policy has operated on a foundational premise: if hospital...
The same 10mg Zepbound costs $449 or $699
By JOHN SAMARAS Eli Lilly sells a month of 10mg Zepbound for $449 through LillyDirect, its own pharmacy. That price holds only if you refill w...
Work Requirements Target the Wrong People
By KIM BELLARD One of the key “cost savings” in last years’ Big, Beautiful Bill were work requirements imposed on most working aged beneficiar...
Healthcare Has Confused Disclosure With Understanding
By JOE FEGHALI Healthcare has become very good at producing disclosures. It is much less good at producing understanding. A hospital posts a...
The Drug Changing Medicine
By EMANUEL SARKEES The United States is in the middle of what researchers are calling one of the most significant pharmacological developments...
The price of Ozempic is a meaningless phrase
By JOHN SAMARAS Ask what Ozempic costs. The honest answer runs from $25 a month to $1,100 a month, and every number in that range is real, publ...
Value Is in the Eye of the Beholder
By KIM BELLARD The most (unintentionally) amusing story I read this week was Tim Higgin’s Wall Street Journal article Alex Karp Is Saying What...
The wrong people are scared of clinical AI
By CRAIG HAUBEN Ask anyone outside healthcare who resists clinical AI and you’ll get a confident answer. The older doctors. The ones who spent...
How Online Prescription Services Are Closing the Access Gap for Patients Who Skip the Doctor’s Office
By DAMIAN WONJO Every clinician keeps a private list of the patients they don’t see. Not the ones who cancel, the ones who never book. The shif...
A ridiculously stupid letter from a health insurer
By MATTHEW HOLT It’s hard to imagine but I may now be in possession of the stupidest letter I’ve ever received from an American health insuranc...
Life Not As We Know It
By KIM BELLARD Well, let’s see. Last week much of the U.S. and parts of Europe were under a crippling heat dome. The U.S. celebrated its 250th...
AI and Professional Nursing: On a Collision Course
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In his wonderful and pragmatic new book, A Giant Leap, Dr. Robert Wachter cautions his professional colleagues that simply co...
"The Limits of Disclosure and the Power of the Outside Option..."
Mon ,03 Aug 2026 On HALO
"The same 10mg Zepbound costs $449 or $699"
Mon ,03 Aug 2026 On HALO
"Work Requirements Target the Wrong People"
Mon ,03 Aug 2026 On HALO
"Healthcare Has Confused Disclosure With Understanding"
Wed ,22 Jul 2026 On HALO
"The Drug Changing Medicine"
Tue ,21 Jul 2026 On HALO