Healthcare: Deja vous all over again.

Sipping on a cup of joe at my local Starbucks, I began thinking about the various healthcare proposals discussed by our candidates for President. As you may have seen in my previous post, ideas such as these produce consequences, many of which are not particularly good.

Anyway, as I continued, it seemed to me that the . . . → Read More: Healthcare: Deja vous all over again.

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The recession you missed, that is unless you were sick.

Little frustrates a consumer than to purchase a product only to find out shortly thereafter that a newer version, with more capabilities is just released and the price is the same. For most of us, this is just an inconvenience, but consider this: what if you are about to have a knee replaced. . . . → Read More: The recession you missed, that is unless you were sick.

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A Perenial Favorite: Rich People Live Longer

Health care is already a key topic for this upcoming presidential race. Hillary is staking most of here campaign on the notion that some how she has figured out how best to provide health care to everyone, even those who don’t want it. What will certainly come up is the gap between the rich and the . . . → Read More: A Perenial Favorite: Rich People Live Longer

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Labor Growth by Health Care Service Sub-Sector

The growth in health care labor continues as again pointed out by Mike Mandel of Busienssweek. In the graph below I looked at non-seasonally adjusted growth within the three larger sub sectors of the health care provider market, and not to surprisingly that growth has been in the outpatient space. There can be many reasons . . . → Read More: Labor Growth by Health Care Service Sub-Sector

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What if No One Showed Up?

The graph below describes a unique condition in which we find ourselves, what are we to do in caring for an aging population. Mike Mandel of BusinessWeek pointed out in the fall of 2006 and followed up again with a piece in the summer of 2007 that health care is a growing labor sector, accounting . . . → Read More: What if No One Showed Up?

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