Forbes Healthcare List Puts Employers In The Spotlight
Forbes Media LLC has released its first-ever “America’s Best Employers for Healthcare Professionals” list, highlighting the top 250 organizations in the U.S. where employees report high job satisfaction, support, and career opportunities. The ranking, titled the “America’s Best Employers For Healthcare Professionals 2025 List,” provides a critical snapshot of quality employment in an industry grappling […]
Healthcare Expert Warns: System Will ‘Not Survive’ Next Pandemic Without Change
The U.S. healthcare system is failing due to a decades-long absence of efficiency incentives, a problem that poses an existential threat to public health, according to Eugene Litvak, PhD, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization (IHO) and an Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Litvak argues that Americans […]
Doctors Appeal for Action as Insurance Failures Turn ERs into De Facto Healthcare ‘Front Doors’
Two medical professionals, Dr. Nicholas Cozzi and Dr. James Shoemaker, are appealing for immediate legislative and public action to reform the American health insurance system, arguing that insurance company practices are forcing Emergency Rooms (ERs) to become the unintended and most expensive “front door” for routine care. In a recent op-ed published in TIME, the […]
Georgia Pathways Program Granted Extension Despite MIssing Enrollment Targets
Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage program, a unique state approach to Medicaid, has secured a one-year extension from the federal government, ensuring the program runs through 2026. The continuation comes with modifications intended to increase the number of people covered. Pathways to Coverage was launched in July 2023 and was designed to offer health care coverage […]
Small business owners and workers to be hit by ACA cost surge
Small businesses are the heart of the American economy and the chance to set-up your own business and build it has long been seen as central to the ‘American dream,’ but the chaotic nature of the health insurance system is posing real difficulties for such entrepreneurs and their workers. The potential expiration of enhanced premium […]
Rising ACA Costs Drive Americans to Seek Cost-Effective Health Sharing Alternatives
More than 22 million people rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces for health insurance. However, policy instability and rapidly increasing expenses threaten to strip coverage from millions, leading some to seek non-traditional alternatives like health sharing programs. The primary driver of this crisis is the looming expiration of enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) […]
Ethical Erosion in the American healthcare system
A fascinating Forbes analysis provides a psychological/social explanation for many of the stories currently surrounding the healthcare market in the United States which leave Americans feeling that the system works against them rather than provides a service to them. The article, “Ethical Erosion: How Good People Lose Their Way In Healthcare,” authored by Sachin H. […]
Navigating Health Insurance Denials: Jackie Fortier’s Expert Recommendations
Receiving a medical bill for a service your health insurance should have covered can evoke feelings of “rage, frustration, or exhaustion”. This experience is common, with many individuals facing unexpected charges, even for supposedly free preventive care. KFF Health News reporter Jackie Fortier, who covers the topic extensively for the “Health Care Helpline” project, conducted […]
Health Insurance crisis? Not for the insurance companies.
At a time when Americans are feeling the sting of rising healthcare premiums and out-of-pocket expenses, UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, is reporting eye-popping revenues and soaring stock prices—even as the company fell short of Wall Street’s profit expectations for the year. UnitedHealth’s second-quarter revenues surged to $111.6 billion, marking a 12.9% jump […]
Healthcare Workforce Crisis: Many Plan to Exit Amid Burnout, Harris Poll Finds
A new Harris Poll survey conducted for Strategic Education reveals a troubling trend in the U.S. healthcare sector: nearly half of healthcare workers are considering leaving their jobs due to burnout and staffing shortages, exacerbating an already strained system. The survey, polling over 1,000 healthcare professionals including nurses, physicians, and support staff, found that 47% […]