October 2026

What Good Is Health Coverage If You Cannot Get to the Doctor – The Health Care Blog

By JOE MKHITARYAN We spend a lot of time talking about who has health insurance. I think we need to spend more time asking who can actually use it. You…

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Employers that exclude GLP-1s point staff to a website and a pretax account – The Health Care Blog

By JOHN SAMARAS Most employers still won’t cover GLP-1s for weight loss, and some of them now tell the employee where to buy them without the plan. The International Foundation…

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How Private Equity Is Squeezing Local Hospitals – The Health Care Blog

By ADAM LEE Reflecting on a Private Equity (PE) internship in New York City reveals a major takeaway: financial engineering can be incredibly empowering, but applying it to public infrastructure…

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Time to Stop “Calling it Reimbursement” – The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDSMITH Back during the Jurassic period, at the beginning of my consulting career, senior colleagues at Ernst and Whinney took me to lunch to explain to the newby…

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