Ran into the CFO of Mary Washington at the courthouse in Fredericksburg this morning. Sean T. Barden is his name. Two other executives (I think) were ...

Dear friends, Yesterday, I paid a visit to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA. Had a nice lunch in the cafeteria—cold burger and fries. I ...

Perhaps the biggest victory yet! While President Trump’s signing of a groundbreaking executive order on Monday was a big win, we just got what might b...

I have been contacted by many people asking for a full copy of the Executive Order signed by the President yesterday. You can find that official ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a warning to the Academy of Motion Pictures, effectively saying: “Don’t cross the line to furth...

As the Federal Government prepares to implement new rules requiring greater price transparency in healthcare, the healthcare industry’s army of lobbyi...

Just picked up my car from the shop. It was routine service, though I had told them to replace my brakes because I have almost 50,000 miles on the car...

You’ve probably never thought about it. Hopefully you will now. Here is a PDF report just out from the Colorado Hospital Association. It is the worst ...

Happy New Year! I’ve been lying low for the past six months — ever since we had to withdraw the Colorado Ballot Measure due to the success of the heal...

With a very heavy heart, I announce the death of Colorado Initiative 146: Healthcare Price Transparency. It could have been. We were on track to compl...

“We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical re...

Here is a story that flies directly in the face of a common, albeit laughable, suggestion that “if people saw the prices of emergency services, ...

Well done to the jury, the patient, and the attorneys who took on a Colorado hospital and won. You can read here about how (and why) Lisa French fough...

All over the country, teachers have been protesting due to inadequate pay. And all over the country, candidates for office—those running for governor,...

In early May, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, was delivering a speech to the Federation of American Hospitals. He had these simple ...

Healthcare prices in the U. S. are growing twice as fast as you think. To understand this phenomenon, which should convince everyone that tackling hea...

Note: If you are new to Broken Healthcare or just want to catch up, we’ve put together this page with the best and most useful reading all summarized ...

Would you donate to the Broken Healthcare Action Fund to if it meant better and safer U.S. schools? For many months, I’ve been writing to you about sk...

Is Tri-Partisan a word? Probably not, but it doesn’t matter. Because all I really want to say is that Colorado’s Healthcare Price Transparency Ballot ...

I know what you’re thinking: How can knowing your out-of-pocket healthcare costs be used as Weapon of Mass Corruption? Read on… A 2014 art...

As is often the case, we somehow become our own worst enemies. While there are many unethical and immoral things happening in healthcare today, we sho...

“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.”-Dalai Lama “Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power…its enabling ...

During the past 10 months that I have been drafting, driving, and upgrading an important, but disruptive, piece of healthcare, I have been greatly imp...

If this doesn’t motivate business owners and employers to invest in this cause, I don’t know what will. In WMCs — Part One, I described an ongoing typ...

First, an Update Read below to understand a hidden, but powerful weapon being used against employers and patients alike. But first, here’s an update o...

UPDATED 4/7/2018 9:38am MT “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected become as angry as those who are.”-Benjamin Franklin Investing i...

The healthcare lobby is spending YOUR money to lobby against your best interests so they can pocket uneconomic profits. Please get involved and make a...

The last several months—really the last year—has been quite a journey. We’ve come so far, and yet we are just getting started in our David v. Goliath ...

If you’ve been following BrokenHealthcare’s efforts, you know this is what we’ve been working toward. Our non-partisan legislation is now before the C...

Dear Messrs. Bezos, Dimon and Buffet: We need your help in Colorado. Our legislature has taken up the most transformational healthcare legislation sin...

House Bill 18-1358 was introduced yesterday. It’s a minor miracle unto itself and I’m grateful for the leadership of Representatives Mike Foote and Su...

Did you gasp? Did you just say to yourself, OMG, I can’t believe he’s going there? Three third rail issues, all at once?! Worry not. There...

#trust….that’s how I’m going to ask you to share this with friends. Because together, we’re going to build a healthcare system we ca...

It’s not the Super Bowl. It’s not the 7th game of the World Series. And it’s not the final curling match of the Olympics. It’s beating the American he...

We are gaining great momentum. Many organizations are signing on to collect signatures in the workplace, whether from employees, customers, patients, ...

Democrats like its consumer protection and patient empowerment features. Republicans like it because it’s so pro-business.  And Libertarians like it f...

Wow! I’m floored, and extremely energized, by the response to my message about the shadowy activities of healthcare executive, Deborah Farrell, who is...

Who is Deborah Farrell? You might want to know. Deborah Farrell is the woman doing the bidding of the largest industry on the planet. Deborah Farrell ...

I’ve had many people write me lately, asking for an update on progress with the ballot measure. The truth is that things are going very, very we...

There are many fallacies standing in the way of healthcare price transparency, not the least of which is the suggestion that the principal purpose of ...

December 7th is a date that has lived in infamy for 76 years, as a remembrance of the day the US entered WWII following the attack on Pearl Harbor, an...

Anthem Inc., the largest for-profit managed healthcare company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, has struck again. The insurer has announ...

While the ACA (Obamacare) and the frustrated efforts to repeal it often grab headlines, there is another quiet, healthcare rollback effort being affec...

The issue of healthcare price transparency made headlines last week thanks to two important class-action lawsuits against two different drugstore chai...

At BrokenHealthcare.org, we are trying to force price transparency by helping patients dispute and deny payment for confusing and error-filled medical...

In my previous post, I suggested two tools to help you evaluate the service and safety of your local hospitals based on criteria like infection rates,...

At BrokenHealthcare.org, we are trying to force price transparency by disputing and denying payment for confusing and error-filled medical bills you h...

The cost of healthcare in the United States is rising; this isn’t news. Many of us console ourselves by saying, “At least we have the best...

We launched BrokenHealthcare.org publicly in January of this year. Since then, the attention it has received has been wonderful, and a bit overwhelmin...

How BCRA, AHCA and ACA All Miss the Mark June 22, 2017 was the day that the public and most lawmakers got a glimpse of the Better Care Reconciliation ...

Since I established BrokenHealthcare.org, a good friend has asked me, on a number of occasions, if I’m just an angry guy trying to help people g...

When Art Villa found out, after one too many boating accidents, that he needed a total knee replacement, he began asking around to see how much it wou...