Greg Scandlen
Greg Scandlen is the founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization aimed at empowering consumers in the health care system.
Mr. Scandlen is an accomplished writer, researcher, and public speaker. He is considered one of the nation's experts on health care financing, insurance regulation and employee benefits. He testifies frequently before Congress, and appears on such television shows as the O'Reilly Factor, NBC Nightly News, and CNN. Mr. Scandlen gives three dozen speeches a year to organizations representing employers and labor, hospitals and physicians, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.
He has published many papers on topics such as health care costs, insurance reform, employee benefits, individual insurance programs, HSAs and HRAs, and every aspect of consumer driven health care.
Mr. Scandlen has worked for several Washington-based think tanks, was the president of the Health Benefits Group and the founder and executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance. He also spent 12 years in the Blue Cross Blue Shield system, most recently as the director of state research at the national association.
Friday, March 6, 2009"Underinsured" on MedicareBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareThere is a lot of talk about "underinsurance," to the point that the U.S. Senate HELP Committee held a hearing on it a couple of weeks ago. Underinsurance is usually defined as a family spending ... more »»
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009Variations in Medicare CareBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareHere is one of the most thought provoking articles I’ve come across in a long time. It’s by Elliott Fisher, MD, and colleagues at Dartmouth and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. As you know, Dartmouth is ... more »»
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Thursday, March 5, 2009HSAs in MinnesotaBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareThe Manitowoc Herald Times reports that a local broker and TPA are trying to discourage the city of Manitowoc from adopting HSAs for its employees, arguing in favor of an HRA instead. The issue was raised ... more »»
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Thursday, February 26, 2009KFF Survey on Public OpinionBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareThe Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new survey. It finds that people are having a hard time paying their medical bills. It doesn’t mention that they are also having a hard time paying their bills for food, housing, ... more »»
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Saturday, February 21, 2009AHIP -- HSAs Perfectly Middle ClassModest deposits, modest withdrawals, modest interest income By Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareA new study from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) looks at what is happening within the HSA accounts themselves. Far from the expectations of some that these are a tax shelter for fat cats, it turns out that HSA activity is clearly middle ... more »»
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Friday, February 13, 2009Another RWJ/Urban Institute DistortionBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareSome people never change their tune, regardless of the evidence. A brand new report by Linda Blumberg and Lisa Clemens-Cope of the Urban Institute and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation repeats the tired old mantras ... more »»
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Saturday, January 24, 2009KFF Survey Finds Mixed Support for Health ReformBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareA survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds very little support for spending more money on Health Information Technology, with only 20% of the public supporting the idea, 60% saying ... more »»
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Saturday, January 10, 2009Two More State Screw-upsVermont and Colorado Make Things Worse By Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareVermont is considering cuts in its Catamount health program. This is the state’s version of Maine’s Dirigo Care and it isn’t faring much better. It became effective in the fall of 2007 after the legislature was promised it would cut Vermont’s uninsured rate to 4% ... more »»
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Thursday, January 1, 2009Maryland Insurance Commisioner Tyler Exceeds AuthorityBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareMaryland’s insurance commissioner, Ralph Tyler, far exceeded his authority in holding a hearing on so-called “concierge medicine” on December 19. His job is to regulate insurance, not the practice of medicine and certainly not the ability of patients to make private, voluntary contracts ... more »»
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008Cost Shifting From Medicare, Medicaid Dwarfs the UninsuredBy Greg ScandlenFiled As: Health CareBloomberg News reports on a new study conducted by Milliman and endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that finds cost-shifting due to underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid costs private insurers $89 ... more »»
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