Blue Cross Demands Monopolistic Deals with Hospitals, and Other Links

Georgia Blue Cross to hospitals: Don’t even think about giving another insurer a better deal.

Posner: We’re in a depression.

Lawyers can’t take a contingency fee in divorce cases, but you can. My advice: make sure the divorcing couple is rich.

Failure to communicate: Less than half (48%) “of patients say they were always involved in decisions about their treatment, and 29% of patients don’t know who was in charge of their case while they were in the hospital.”

7 thoughts on “Blue Cross Demands Monopolistic Deals with Hospitals, and Other Links”

  1. The Blue Cross story seems like a matter of reading the fine print in the contract. If the hospitals don’t like the “most favored customer” clause, then don’t sign the contract.

  2. Bruce,
    You can’t invest unless one of the two parties needs money for legal expenses. Both Angelina and Brad have lots of money in their own right — so no problem. There ought to be a futures market in these things, however, so that people can bet on how long the marriage will last. Something like Intratrade.

  3. The Becker / Posner article was interesting. It explained an uptick in unemployment claims is often a sign of recovery when people who previously were so discouraged by the job market they stopped looking for work sensed a recovery and renewed their job search.

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