healthcare financing

With the announcement of CVS's HealthHubs, the synergy of data and business is rapidly coming to the health sector; health systems will become havens only for the severely acutely ill, the more complex, the expensive.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that he wants to spend $100 million to provide healthcare “coverage” for an estimated 600,000 uninsured New Yorkers, and that includes an estimated 300,000 undocumented individuals.

Deductibles and co-payments are meant to make patient’s think twice about seeing physicians, making them pay a bit more to use the insurance benefits they already pay – skin in the game.