I suppose I should be happy that today’s NY Times features a big old article on the impact of our national healthcare crisis on jazz musicians. Maybe the national media is finally noticing this problem, which has plagued artists from every discipline for as long as I can remember. But it’s unfortunate [...]
I realize that I’m a healthcare policy nerd and that most folks find this stuff boring and impenetrable. That’s one reason why organizations like Fractured Atlas are needed; we deal with the esoteric minutia so you don’t have to.
Still, it never hurts to educate yourself, especially with an election coming up. The [...]
I was invited to testify this afternoon before the NY State Departments of Health and Insurance on ways that the state can move towards universal coverage. These hearings are grueling affairs; today’s was scheduled to go from 9am to 8pm. Fortunately it was right across the street from my office so I cheated [...]
It’s not often that events in the auto industry have a major long-term impact on the arts community. However it’s worth taking note of the groundbreaking new contract that GM just signed with the UAW. As this morning’s Wall Street Journal reports:
The labor agreement reached by General Motors Corp. is the most striking [...]
For over a year now, Fractured Atlas has been working on offering some new nationally-available health insurance plans through Assurant. This has been a rocky, painful, frustrating process (for a whole bunch of reasons that I’d tell you about over drinks but not in this blog). I’m very happy to say that we’re [...]
The MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber, who consulted on the creation of the Massachusetts healthcare reform plan and who is now working with California on their plan has released a nationalized version of the Massachusetts model.
I’m very impressed with what they’ve been able to pull off politically in Massachusetts, but I do have some serious concerns: [...]
There’s little question in my mind that the maelstrom of health care reform proposals we’re suddenly seeing from every corner of the political and business landscape is starting to converge on a two key concepts: 1) universal coverage backed by individual mandates and 2) some kind of public/private hybrid approach that allows the mighty insurance [...]
This piece originally appeared as an article in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on April 15, 2006.
The American healthcare system is a spectacular mess, and artists are disproportionately underserved by our current employer-based model. Meanwhile in Washington, Congress is facing a handful of proposals that would radically alter the market for health insurance, especially with respect [...]
This piece originally appeared as an article in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on October 15, 2004.
Healthcare in America is a broken, dysfunctional mess. 45 million Americans lack health insurance, and the costs of providing it to those who do are rising at a dramatic rate. Patients are often dissatisfied with the quality of [...]
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