Dan O’Neill
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Dan O’Neill
@dponeill.bsky.social
Healthcare services, tech & policy nerd. Alum: @theNAMedicine, @StanfordEng, @SAISHopkins, @CMCnews, @BCG and various health services & tech cos. https://dponeill.com/
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You cannot have:
a) Low healthcare costs
b) No consumer cost sharing
c) Doctors do everything they think benefits patients
d) No insurer oversight
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
This week certainly illustrates the fiendish political economy of health costs.

Economists often fret that public programs are too vulnerable to lobbying.

But costs are often much harder to cut when private insurers are in the mix, because it’s too easy to fit them with a black hat.
December 6, 2024 at 2:55 AM