Myth Busters: Why Health Reform Always Goes Awry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544028170)

Greg Scandlen is an independent health care analyst in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He has nearly 40 years experience in health policy, especially in health care financing. He started in the research department at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine in 1979, was recruited by the BCBS Association to go to Washington to work on state affairs in 1984. Disturbed by the growth of managed care, he left the Blues in 1991 to organize the Council for Affordable Health Insurance where he helped get Medical Savings Accounts enacted. Once enacted, he went into independent consulting to help businesses adopt MSAs. He then did stints at the Cato Institute, the National Center for Policy Analysis, the Galen Institute, and finally organized Consumers for Health Care Choices in 2004, which is now a project of the Heartland Institute. Throughout his career Mr. Scandlen has been an advocate of patient empowerment, consumer choice, and increased competition. He is a widely published author and blogger, has given hundreds of speeches throughout the country, and has been interviewed in many broadcast and print media outlets. His core insight is that most of the problems in the health care system stem from excessive reliance on third-party payment, and the solution lies in allowing health care consumers to control their own resources to purchase the services they value.