…people on the hook for first-dollar coverage would lead many to self-ration care and worsen health outcomes, employers rapidly expanded their HDHP offerings. No surprise there. Businesses profit from HDHPs…

…in place, economists Ludvig Wier and Gabriel Zucman found “no discernible decline in global profit shifting or in profit shifting by U.S. multinationals.”[40] (See Figure 4.) This profit shifting costs significant…

…he co-authored with George Halvorson, the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser, a non-profit integrated delivery system (it and a handful of other non-profit IDNs across country own not just…

…news released so far this week was this morning’s update on Q3 corporate profits. While it is not a good thing for society for profits to outpace wages and salaries…

…you forced private insurance to give up its predatory business model, they ultimately would abandon less profitable markets just as they did in the heyday of managed care. What Sec…

…private, nonprofit institution with a Bachelor’s degree. $34,740 is the average student debt for a federal loan borrower who graduated from a private, for profit institution with a Bachelor’s degree….

…difficulties and (b) repay the investment in the consultants. So how’s that working out for American nonprofit hospitals, many of which struggling and threatened with closure? “Findings Nonprofit hospitals in…

…of the issue, more than 1,400 schools closed between 2013 and 2015 stranding many students with excessive loans and an incomplete education by for-profit schools. 15,000 former students are impacted…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…