Opinions

Payers & Providers publishes opinion articles from members of its regional editorial boards and from a wide range of healthcare executives and policymakers.

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Doctors Need To Do More To Educate Their Patients On Medical Decisions
There is Not Enough Information They Can Easily Access
Posted on: Aug 2, 2025 By By Cindi Slater, M.D.

Peering Into The Healthcare Merger Tea Leaves
Consolidation Is Still Occurring – Pushing An Elusive Patient Connection Far Away
Posted on: Jul 26, 2025 By By Jeff Goldsmith

EMRs Have Been Oversold – Much Like Self-Driving Cars
The Latest Tech is Not Always The Tech That’s Best For Patients
Posted on: Jun 28, 2025 By Hans Duvefelt, M.D

The U.S. Needs To Put The Caring Back In Healthcare
Commercialization Has Pushed us Too Far Away From The Human Touch
Posted on: Jun 14, 2025 By By Vinita Parkash and Andrew Faas

Twitter Is Reshaping The Healthcare Debate – And Doctors Need To Catch Up
Social Media is Making Debates Blunter And Thornier, Requiring Clinicians to Adapt
Posted on: Apr 26, 2026 By Benjamin Mazer, M.D.

Hospitals, Healthcare Systems Need To Engage Patients Directly
The Demographic Data Suggests They Have no Choice
Posted on: Mar 1, 2026 By Devin Carty

Kentucky’s Derby of Healthcare Self-Destruction
It’s New Medicaid Rules Are a Race to Disenfranchise Poor and Minorities
Posted on: Jan 25, 2026 By Margalit Gur-Arie

Physician Assistants Are Closely Supervised By Doctors For A Reason
Some May Try And Stretch Credulity With Claims Made to Patients
Posted on: Dec 7, 2025 By Niran Al-Agba

The GOP Tax Plan Is Disastrous For The Healthcare System
It Does Not Seriously Take Spending Trends Into Consideration
Posted on: Nov 30, 2025 By Steven Findlay

The Mystery Apple/Aetna Event
The Future of Digital Health? It’s Secret For Now
Posted on: Aug 24, 2025 By By Lygeia Ricciardi

U.S. Morbidity And Mortality Tied Directly To Trump's Election
Middle-Aged Voters With Health Problems Overwhelmingly Voted For Him
Posted on: Jan 26, 2026 By By Jeff Goldsmith

Will MACRA Succeed? Only Time Will Tell
The Feds Have Ways to Make it Work Without Placing More Burden on Doctors
Posted on: Jan 19, 2026 By By Adam Rose, Peter Hussey, Monique Martineau and Mark Friedberg

What Repealing And Replacing The ACA Will Look Like
Trump And Congress Have a Variety of Options to Pursue
Posted on: Dec 7, 2025 By Devon Herrick

The ACA's Unspooling is Near
Trump's Victory Makes It Entirely Plausible
Posted on: Nov 10, 2025 By Paul Keckley

A Preview for Single-Payer Healthcare
Colorado May Approve an Initiative Next Month
Posted on: Oct 13, 2025 By Roger Collier

Different (Terroir)tories, Different Healthcare Delivery
Cultural Differences in U.S. Defy Creating a Unified System
Posted on: Oct 5, 2025 By By Jeff Goldsmith and Lawton Burns

Shlomo Rechnitz's Cascade Of Corporations
They're All Over the Place - What Does That Say For His SNF Patients?
Posted on: Sep 28, 2025 By By Ron Shinkman

Care Management Requires Closer Attention
Consumers Cannot be Expected to Shoulder Burden Alone
Posted on: Sep 21, 2025 By Cindi Slater, M.D.

Is Price Transparency Something You Can See Through?
Study Suggests Consumers May be Picky About Cost Savings
Posted on: Sep 14, 2025 By Devon Herrick

Patients Need More Tools To Gauge Drug Costs
They\'re Currently Ill-Equipped to Make Informed Decisions
Posted on: Sep 8, 2025 By Matt Parker

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