Empowering Healthcare Consumers with Price and Quality Information
Going Forward with the Scorched Earth Platform of the President-Elect The display of offal during the 2016 presidential election continues to stain my mind and incites humor and we are sure to receive plenty of comedic material from the crotch-grabber-in-chief. This is the 100 th article I have published under the healthpolicymaven blog and since he-who-shall-not-be-named was elected President, my readership has tripled. I have been publishing Straight Talk on Health Care since December 12, 2007, when a candidate for governor of Washington ran on a platform to reduce healthcare access for children, which inflamed my sensibilities and inspired my direct-to-consumer advocacy. The purpose of this column, which is published in blog form, but adheres to strict journalistic standards for research and references, is to empower the public with useful information which can inform healthcare decisions. In other words, what information, presented in an understandable, and en...