The Long and Winding Road: 75 Years of Competition in Health Care Policy

When health economics emerged as a distinct discipline in the late 1960s, mainstream academic and policy paradigms widely presumed that competitive market mechanisms were structurally incompatible with medical delivery. Influenced by foundational ideas like Kenneth Arrow’s 1963 landmark paper emphasizing the pervasive friction of clinical uncertainty, early experts argued that society had to look almost…

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A Reality Check on SDOH: Challenges We Can’t Ignore

A very small percentage of health outcomes are tied to direct healthcare activities. The non-medical factors, conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and work in, more often than not, impact health outcomes more than the clinical care they receive. The post A Reality Check on SDOH: Challenges We Can’t Ignore appeared first on…

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The Return of American Manufacturing Demands a Chief Health & Benefits Officer (CHBO) to Fix Benefits Procurement

By MATT McCORD American manufacturing is making a comeback. Driven by tariffs, supply chain instability, and shifting economic priorities, companies are reshoring production—reinvesting in U.S. labor and operations. But there’s one major obstacle still standing in the way: the crushing cost of American healthcare. For decades, U.S. employers have overpaid for healthcare without improving outcomes….

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