Writing

Essays on healthcare institutions, economics, strategy, and the human side of an industry that touches everyone.

The invisible workforce translating human suffering into billable data

Who decides why employer-sponsored health insurance is so expensive, explained with cake

The Medicaid cuts are designed to shrink government’s role. Children’s hospitals show why they’ll do the opposite.

Watching hospitals and insurance companies make up or break up

Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System

Or my alternate title “On the Red Line: Healthcare to a T”

Trade-offs between stakeholders on our healthcare seesaw

My honest confession about healthcare's beautiful torture

This is Health is Other People.