Michael Bond
Michael Bond, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. He is also the Senior Fellow in Health Care Policy at the James Madison Institute in Florida, and director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Buckeye Institute, an Ohio-based organization. Dr. Bond is a Professor of Finance at Cleveland State University. He has taught health care finance along with numerous other finance courses.
His work on Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) and health-care policy reform has received national attention and appeared in a wide range of professional and popular publications, including Health Care Financial Management, Public Personnel Management, Compensation and Benefits Review, and Benefits Quarterly.
Along with over 70 articles and presentations, he is the author of the nation's first practical guide to establishing MSAs. Many of his reforms for Medicaid reform have been adopted by the states of Ohio and Florida.
He has also authored reports on Medicaid Reform in Texas, Kansas and Florida. He has assisted the Flint Hills Center, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and several other organizations on Medicaid reform.
Bond earned his Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. in economics from Case Western Reserve University and has advised South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford on Medicaid. He founded and serves of Treasurer of the National Business & Economics Society.
Sunday, March 2, 2008Health Reform 101: Get Rid of Price ControlsBy Michael BondFiled As: Health CareEconomists do not like price controls. Whether they are liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans or anything in between they recognize the counterproductive nature of attempting to set prices bureaucratically or legally. Unfortunately, price controls are rampant in the U.S. health system. Medicare has ... more »»
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Friday, February 22, 2008More Government Run Health Care FairnessBy Michael BondFiled As: Health CareIn my other life I am a finance professor in a business school. Most of my colleagues are socialists. No surprise, after all: Where are these people to go now that their collective utopias around the world have pretty much collapsed? I put these folks in two groups. The first are economic ... more »»
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Monday, February 18, 2008Canadian Medicine: It Is Great If You Are Healthy!By Michael BondFiled As: Health CareThe political model for government run health care is quite simple. Solve the “cost problem” by establishing a global budget that the state will pay for in a given time period. Front load the plan so the vast majority of covered lives who are healthy get at least some access ... more »»
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Friday, February 15, 2008More Good News In FloridaBy Michael BondFiled As: Health CareOne aspect of making markets function better is free entry and exit of capital. Of course, we may expect that existing firms will work real hard to reduce competition. Naturally, the reason for this is to protect consumers from terrible things like WalMart’s low prices and low cost classes from the ... more »»
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008Good News From Florida!By Michael BondFiled As: Health CareGovernor Crist has appointed former Representative Holly Benson to head the agency that overseas Medicaid in Florida. Holly worked hard ... more »»
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Sunday, February 10, 2008Competition In Drugs = Better Consumer DealBy Michael BondFiled As: Health CareWhile I opposed the creation of a Medicare drug benefit (I wanted Medicare to become a risk-adjusted premium support plan) at least we can take some solace in how it was designed. The plan is a premium support plan with private insurers vigorously competing to enroll beneficiaries. It looks like ... more »»
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Monday, January 21, 2008Where Do DRGs Come From?By Michael BondFiled As: Health CareWhen government gets involved in things there tends to be the development of lots of alphabet soup descriptors for various aspects of what is being taxed, subsidized or regulated. This is true especially in medicine. One of the more interesting abbreviations in ... more »»
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008(Lack Of) Free Enterprise In Health CareBy Michael BondFiled As: Health CareProponents of expanding the government role in health care argue that the private sector has not effectively controlled medical inflation and provided access to medical treatments. But, in fact, there is very little free enterprise in medicine. First, a significant amount of health care ... more »»
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007The Connector Now Moves To Price Controls!By Michael BondFiled As: Health CareWell what do you know! The Massachusetts Connector, a guaranteed issue, community rating fiasco has now moved to new lows trying to deal with its unworkable design. The good aspects of health insurance exchanges (plan choice, real prices, combining spouse ... more »»
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Monday, December 17, 2007Time To Fix Medicare and MedicaidBy Michael BondFiled As: Health CareMedicare and Medicaid remain the nation’s largest fiscal challenge. If we needed any reminder of that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has weighed in (link is in PDF) with long-term estimates of the ... more »»
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