Who runs the biggest HMO in the world? Kaiser Permanente? Wellpoint? United HealthCare? Nope, nope, and guess again. The answer is — the National Health Service in Britain. This is one of the big “ah-ha’s” I picked up during my time with the folks from England. There’s only one route to a specialist in England […]

Many people have asked me if the recent agreement between General Motors and the UAW to establish a union-run, independent health benefits trust is a prelude to a major change in health insurance operations and finance in this country. I say no. The auto manufacturers and the auto unions have a particular set of problems […]

My friend Jeff Goldsmith, who runs Health Futures — a health care management consulting firm — also gathers a loose confederation of health care executives four or five times a year to catch up on what’s going on in the industry. His latest clustering brought together a bunch of health care leaders from the US […]