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- UnitedHealth?s Insurance To Get Insurance Is Ridiculous
- Michael Steinberg submits: The New York Times“UnitedHealth to Insure the Right to Insurance” reports that UnitedHealth Group UNH is selling the option to buy an individual health insurance policy in the future without medical underwriting. However, the applicant would have to undergo medical underwriting to acquire this hedge. The product...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Florida's Health Insurance Deception
- Michael Steinberg submits: Fraud might be too strong a word, but deception certainly fits the bill for the Covered Florida Health Care Access Program. Let’s examine Florida Governor Crist’s declaration: This legislation makes affordable health coverage available to 3.8 million uninsured Floridians through a comprehensive market-based strategy. Cover Florida allows...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Private Health Insurers: Losing Medicare Advantage
- Michael Steinberg submits: Bloomberg’s “Medicare ‘Rip-Off’ Hits Elderly as Obama Maps Changes” reports that Humana HUM, Health Net and UnitedHealth UNH are all changing their strategies for offering Medicare Advantage plans to eligible seniors. Princeton political economy professor Uwe Reinhardt told Bloomberg: “The insurers’ dream was that maybe 80 percent...
- External links 2009-02-05
- Private Health Insurers Race to Justify Their Value
- Michael Steinberg submits: The New York Times in “Health Insurers, Poised for Round 2” examines the differing approaches of two of the largest private insurers to their potential disintermediation with President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Aetna AET is focusing on creating value through better employee health management for its large corporate...
- External links 2009-03-02
- ?Uniquely American? Is Code for Killing Healthcare Reform
- Michael Steinberg submits: Just like “All American” type gal-Friday or receptionist was code for discrimination in employment advertisements a few decades ago, so is “Uniquely American” code for preventing a Medicare-for-all government option for individual health insurance. Opposition politicians have uniformly adopted the need for a uniquely American approach to...
- External links 2009-03-08
- Dendreon Troubles Beyond Provenge Test
- Michael Steinberg submits: Dendreon DNDN is a company not unknown for hype. Today’s hype was that the Provenge prostate cancer immunotherapy met the Phase 3 survival goals of reducing death by 22% and extending life by 4.5 months for men with advanced prostate cancer who no longer responded to hormone...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Dendreon's Provenge Is Scientifically Intriguing but Commercially Nonsensical
- Michael Steinberg submits: I know that Dendreon’s DNDN groupies are an enthusiastic bunch. Now Wall Street has joined the party, at least until they get the fees from Dendreon’s inevitable secondary stock offering needed to fund Provenge’s launch. Dendreon doesn’t plan on filing for FDA marketing approval until sometime in...
- External links 2009-04-30
- Congressman Paul Ryan's Republican Healthcare Alternative
- Michael Steinberg submits: The conservative TV pontiffs and their print counterparts, including The Wall Journal editorial page, are saying all hail the free market alternative to the Democrats government takeover of our uniquely American healthcare system. The Republicans are eager to admit that the current system is broken, but reform...
- External links 2009-05-26
- Big Pharma?s Divide and Conquer Strategy
- Michael Steinberg submits: Multiple recent polls have indicated that Americans want a government run health insurance option and President Obama seems to be holding the line. Republicans say the people cannot be trusted because they don’t understand that they would be getting a “pig in a poke.” Liberal Senator...
- External links 2009-06-23
- Rational Market Theory and Black Swans in Healthcare Reform
- Michael Steinberg submits: Whether you are a believer in the rational market theory or black swans, you could see that even former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox would have cause to blush at the healthcare marketplace. Cox was the champion non-interferer in charge of enforcing a level playing field for investors...
- External links 2009-08-17
- GE CEO Immelt: Misdirected on Healthcare
- Michael Steinberg submits: The New York Times’ “G.E. Chief Sees India Helping Cut Costs of U.S. Health Care” reports that Jeffrey Immelt predicted that India’s role in reducing US healthcare costs will be significant. The comments were made by General Electric’s GE CEO during a news conference related to GE’s...
- External links 2009-10-04
Additional Resources
- The National Market Is Not the Savior of State Regulated Private Health Insurance
- Michael Steinberg submits: The Wall Street Journal “Ranks of Uninsured Fell in '07, Census Says” reports that the number of Americans without health insurance dropped to 45.7M in 2007 from 47M in 2006 due to an increase in government insured of 2.7M. Medicaid increased by 1.3M, Medicare by 1M and...
- External links 2008-08-28
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