Financial Conflict

In McDonalds vs. Kids, Guess Who's Ahead


Until we rein in fast food and give them less free sway with our kids, we're contributing to a national disaster.

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Why Brokers Feel Their Commissions Are Justified

Yesterday I pointed out that many brokers act in utter disregard of their clients best interests, instead steering them toward deals that land them the best commissions. Today I present the other side, that many brokers spend an inordinate amount of energy mopping up the health plans' failures.

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Brokers and Financial Conflict

While most business' seek objective advice about their health plans, in fact their brokers often steer them to deals that provide the biggest commissions.

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Those Crazy Californians: This Time Its Childhood Diabetes

California has taken a bold step in the fight against childhood diabetes. Even so, its hardly a match for the influence exerted by the fast food industry.

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Crimes and Punishments: Zheng and Crawford

The difference in the way China is treating a public official who was caught taking illicit money and how we treated one of our own caught doing the same thing says everything you need to know about which direction we're headed.

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Conflicted Care

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Financial conflict is rampant throughout health care, and most experts agree that as much as half of care and cost is waste. Even so, many practitioners live quite comfortably with the idea that they do good work even while they make decisions that accrue more to their benefit than to that of their patients. We won't begin to solve the crisis until we make pricing and performance transparent, so we can identify what's appropriate and what isn't.

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