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Right-To-Repair Law Proposed ... For Cars

Fred Von Lohmann | Electronic Frontier Foundation | May 20, 2009

It's not often that you get former presidential candidates from the Green Party and the Libertarian Party to agree on legislation, but Bob Barr and Ralph Nader have done just that -- jointly supporting the Right-To-Repair Act of 2009 (H.R. 2057)... Read More »

'Open Systems' for Consumers Comparison Shopping for Healthcare

Americans can comparison shop online for almost anything today. This ought to apply to the healthcare industry as well. How much are hospitals or clinics charging for medical procedures and other healthcare services? Where is the online Amazon, Best Buy, or Wal-Mart site that you can go to and check the prices before heading off to see your doctor. Read More »

ACA Fosters 'Fertile Time For Healthcare Investments'

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | April 18, 2013

The healthcare industry has been notoriously slow at identifying methods and tools it needs to reduce costs and improve quality noted a report by healthcare investment firm the Psilos Group, but health reform is producing promising opportunities for investors to fuel needed innovations. Read More »

Analytics in health care: Tools in the hands of consumers

Kevin Kelly | Deloitte Center for Health Solutions | November 11, 2013

Despite facing some issues at the start, health insurance exchanges are beginning to open their doors; health plans are beginning to compete on state and federal marketplaces and health care reform is placing pressure on providers to cut costs while increasing quality. Read More »

Category C Liberalism

Paul Glastris | Washington Monthly | October 24, 2013

Like Ed and Kevin Drum I found Mike Konczal’s post about how the problems with healthcare.gov might reflect competing visions of liberalism interesting and wanted to expand on it. Read More »

Court Upholds Rx Transparency Law

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 20, 2013

Advocates for healthcare transparency scored a small win in California, where the state Supreme Court upheld a law requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose their pricing. Read More »

Ex-Government Official: The Private Sector Is Threatening Your Privacy

Emma Green | The Atlantic | June 20, 2013

Are data-mining companies and social-media platforms scarier than the government? Read More »

Health Insurance Marketplace Plans Vary Widely in Price

Jordan Rau & Julie Appleby | Government Technology | October 7, 2013

Consumers shopping in the new health insurance marketplaces will face a bewildering array of competing plans in some counties and sparse options in other places, with people in some areas of the country having to pay much more for the identical level of coverage than consumers elsewhere. Read More »

myDrugCosts helps Patients find low cost Rx Alternatives

Christopher Gergen & Stephen Martin | NewsObserver.Com | April 27, 2013

Think about the last time you or members of your family needed a prescription drug. How did you go about getting it filled? If you’re like us, you relied on what the doctor told you, took it to the local pharmacy, and quite possibly came away shocked by the co-pay amount... Read More »

North Carolina moves on health care price transparency

Bailey McCann | CivSource | August 21, 2013

Health care price transparency is a hot topic in state legislatures and in the health care industry itself. New measures are cropping up all over the U.S. Read More »

Survey: Quarter Of US Consumers Has Heard Of Bitcoin — And Majority Of Them Trust It

Natasha Lomas | TechCrunch | June 28, 2013

Depending on your view, Bitcoin is either A) an elaborate Ponzi scheme or B) the currency of the future. Or, if you’re the average man on the street, it’s probably C) something you’ve never heard of. Read More »

The Elusive Quest To Transform Healthcare Through Patient Empowerment

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Strata | May 23, 2013

Would you take a morning off from work to discuss health care costs and consumer empowerment in health care? Over a hundred people in the Boston area did so on Monday, May 6, for the conference “Empowering Healthcare Consumers... Read More »

What Does Singapore Know About Selling Healthcare Products?

Jacqueline Fellows | HealthLeaders Media | July 3, 2013

Buying health insurance in the U.S. is not yet as straightforward as other consumer purchases, but that is changing. Health systems in Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand are far ahead of us in offering consumer choice and addressing health disparities. Read More »

Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?

Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman | Washington Monthly | March 4, 2010

If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs. Read More »