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.
Thursday, August 9, 2007The Untold Deficit StoryFiled As: Budget and TaxI’ve just been crunching some numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. Through the first ten months of fiscal year 2007 the Federal budget has a deficit of $158 billion. Looking over the possible revenues and expenses for August and September (the government spends money from October ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007Change the Tax Treatment of Health Care, Reduce the UninsuredFiled As: Health CareAs many bloggers have pointed out in this forum, the U.S. tax code is a major contributor to our health insurance problems. The code gives your boss far too much power in determining your health care and puts individuals at a disadvantage in buying insurance. It also discriminates against people with ... more »»
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Monday, July 23, 2007Have You Heard About America's Life Insurance Crisis? Part IIIFiled As: Health CareHow can we make the market for health insurance work as well as the market for life insurance? Consumers will need transparency in the cost of health plans and health care. I have advocated consumers having numerous choices in their health coverage. Transparency is needed in what the plans cover. ... more »»
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Thursday, August 2, 2007Have You Heard America's Life Insurance Crisis? Part VFiled As: Health CareIn 4 earlier posts (one, two, three, and four) I’ve tongue in cheek asked about the life ... more »»
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Thursday, July 26, 2007Have You Heard About America's Life Insurance Crisis? Part IVFiled As: Health CareHow do we make health insurance work like the life insurance market? From earlier posts (one, two, three), several things will help. ... more »»
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Thursday, July 19, 2007Have You Heard About America's Life Insurance Crisis? Part IIFiled As: Health CareI had recently, tongue in cheek, asked readers if they had heard about America's Life Insurance Crisis. Of course, there isn't one. The reason is that, unlike health insurance, there is a real market for that product. How can we create a real market for health care and insurance? It will require 4 ... more »»
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Friday, July 13, 2007Have You Heard About America's Life Insurance Crisis?Filed As: Health CareHave you heard about America’s life insurance crisis and the threat it poses to our nation’s economy? I’m betting that you haven’t. If so it isn’t because you are not informed. It’s because there isn’t one. Why? The reason is that there is a real marketplace for ... more »»
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Thursday, July 12, 2007Whither Goeth the Deficit?Filed As: Budget and TaxBuried on page 11 of my local paper this morning was a story about President Bush pointing out that the Federal deficit will decline again this year. Since most people would consider this a positive development I was naturally surprised that it got such little play. But I shouldn’t be. I view it as ... more »»
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Monday, June 4, 2007Don't Let Medicare Negotiate Drug PricesFiled As: Health CareThe new Congressional Democratic majority wants to give Medicare’s overseer, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the power to directly negotiate prices for drugs sold to its prescription drug program – Medicare Part D. Currently, Medicare provides a ... more »»
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Friday, May 18, 2007Low Medicaid Rates Add to Inflation in Private Pay Health CareFiled As: Health CareThe amount of private health insurance crowd that is produced by SCHIP expansion has been a matter of controversy for years. Estimates have ranged from 75 percent to none. As reported in an earlier by Grace Marie Turner, the non-partisan Congressional Budget has weighed in with estimates of crowd out ... more »»
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