Hospitals are the most square footage of (tax-free) real estate in America. Are they worth it? You don’t know what anything costs until you get the bill after the fact. But the financial scam would be less egregious if the place were pleasant, flexible, customer/patient-centered. To say it's not is the understatement of the century. I wrote this one about why the modern hospital experience feels so completely detached from the person it supposedly exists to serve. Sharing here in case you missed it (link in comments).

We fought for years to make health care prices transparent. The White House economists' argument against it was always the same: "Patients aren’t going to shop for health care" Well, they were right. But they were just wrong about why it mattered. Patients were never the audience. Employers were. I joined Troy Reichert and Dr. Jonathan Bushman on their Patients Win podcast to talk about the fight for price transparency, what employers can finally do with that data, and why the next fight is cash pay at scale. Check it out at the link in comments.

For years, I’ve said real health reform means tackling the employer market instead of just arguing over the ACA. Well, it’s happening, and Peter Nelson @CMSGov is leading the charge (along with Daniel Aronowitz at @USDOL). Check out the delicious details at the link in comments.

Hospitals and insurers once swore to me that publishing their prices would crash the internet. Well... It didn’t. Now the FTC is warning hospitals about deceptive pricing, and the prescription drug prices PBMs fought to keep secret are back on Washington’s agenda. There’s a lot to celebrate. But rules don’t write and enforce themselves. Meet the people doing big things (and learn how you can help). Link in comments.

A lot of talk these days centers around women with careers. We're scolded for letting our ovaries wither while we recklessly and selfishly push our careers to center stage. But that’s NOT what we’re actually doing - not most of us. We’re not prioritizing career over marriage and motherhood. We didn’t choose to be single. We’re just trying to pay our bills while we desperately - DESPERATELY - search for and hope for Prince Charming to come save us. Being raised with feminism in our blood and on our lips, sometimes by our parents, but always by the culture, we had fortunate opportunities to become good at things that are useful in the economy. That freedom made it easier to pay those bills when Prince Charming was dallying. We got raises, titles, PhDs. Not because we preferred this path, but because we were good at what we did and it paid the bills and no one else was offering to pay rent. Some fields are easier to advance in without becoming a warrior. Most aren’t. My take on embracing the feminine at the link in comments.