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.

 


Thursday, September 17, 2009

HSAs Still Best for Workers 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The Kaiser ... more »»

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Another List of Platitudes 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The President's speech to a joint session of Congress failed to move the health reform ball closer to the goalposts. Instead of bringing much-needed clarity to the issues, it was yet another laundry list of platitudes and generalities, just a listing of the provisions already in the bills in Congress. ... more »»

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Magical Thinking 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The magical cure for all our health care woes is, we are told, pay-for-performance as dictated by comparative effectiveness research. That will ensure that only the very best is delivered by each physician to each patient. Right. Pity there is no empirical support for the ... more »»

Monday, August 31, 2009

Is an Individual Mandate Unconstitutional? 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

Two senior attorneys wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post that an individual mandate more »»

Monday, August 24, 2009

Enrollment in Consumer-driven Plans Exceeds that of HMOs 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

A new survey by United Benefits Advisors finds that ... more »»

Friday, August 14, 2009

Peter Ferrara Nails It 

By Greg Scandlen

Filed As:  Health Care

The best analysis I have seen about the current debate is written by Peter Ferrara and published by the Heartland Institute. In a press release announcing the new study, Dan ... more »»

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 »»

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