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James G. Kahn is a health policy professor.

A health economist acknowledges how financing experiments failed our health system

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Policy
August 16, 2022

I read a superb commentary in STAT, “Value-based payment has produced little value. It needs a time-out,” that reviews the failures of “value-based care” and the failure of its promoters to acknowledge those failures. Ideas conceived, tested and found lacking, and used as the basis for more of the same. Distracting from real health system reform.

So I thought, wouldn’t it be terrific if the originators of flawed health …

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A health economist acknowledges how financing experiments failed our health system

The financial sinkhole of health insurance complexity

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Policy
February 2, 2015

We all know that the U.S. system of paying for health care is tremendously complex and inefficient: a multitude of insurers, thousands of insurance plans, innumerable medical bills, countless incorrect and denied claims.

But just how much do we waste on this administrative morass?

I led a research team that recently reviewed all the available evidence and published our findings. The resulting numbers are staggering.

Compared with countries that have a single health …

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The financial sinkhole of health insurance complexity

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