Hospital Mergers Kill
An Economist’s Exercise in Reality Distortion In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur. Funded by Arnold Ventures their […]
The Real Red Wave: Why the Biden Presidency is in Peril
Democrats’ despair after Joe Biden’s pallid and halting debate performance stems from the realization that the uphill climb needed to prevent the return of Donald Trump might be too steep. What is less obvious is the awareness of the urban intelligentsia of the root causes of the adverse political climate, which can be seen in […]
Maryland’s example is no solution to healthcare’s true crises
Why U.S. policy needs to focus on pruning the healthcare transaction thicket
Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire
Will the Change Healthcare Incident Change Healthcare?
