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.

 


Saturday, April 11, 2009

Cost Shifting From Medicare, Medicaid 

Dwarfs uncompensated care from the uninsured

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

An important study was released by the actuarial firm Milliman in December 2008. This study tries to balance the hysteria about cost shifting from the uninsured to people with private coverage with an analysis of how much ... more »»

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Is Health IT the Answer? 

Botched IT at Defense Department

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The Department of Defense is a mess when it comes to active duty servicemen according to the technology publication NextGov. An article headlined, “Officials criticize Defense's 'unreliable' health record ... more »»

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Is Health IT the Answer? 

Botched IT at the VA

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The Veterans Administration is often held up as the Gold standard of swell Health IT, but the technology publication NextGov carried a report by Bob Brewin that starts, “An eight-year-old, $167 million project to develop ... more »»

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Pew Survey Finds Support for Reform Down Since 1993 

"Stakeholders" may be on board, but the public isn't

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The Pew Research Center reports that popular support for big health reforms is not nearly what it was in 1993, the last time it reared its head.  Back then, in April 1993, 56% of the population agreed that ... more »»

Friday, March 6, 2009

"Underinsured" on Medicare 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

There 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 »»

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Variations in Medicare Care  

Maybe it's the patients

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

Here 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 »»

Thursday, March 5, 2009

HSAs in Minnesota 

Doing what actually works

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The 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 »»

Thursday, February 26, 2009

KFF Survey on Public Opinion 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The 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 »»

Saturday, February 21, 2009

AHIP -- HSAs Perfectly Middle Class 

Modest deposits, modest withdrawals, modest interest income

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

A 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 »»

Friday, February 13, 2009

Another RWJ/Urban Institute Distortion 

A Feeble Attack on HSAs

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care


Some 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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