Welcome to the Cavalcade of Risk #157 Risk of Risk Edition. Hank Stern of InsureBlog leads off with a post entitled, "From the P&C Files: Marvel-ous Insurance". InsureBlog asks whether the risks of worldwide domination outweigh the cost of superheroes destroying large swaths of Manhattan. Dr. Jaan Sidorov of Disease Management Care Blog posts on "Commercializing On-Site Care Management for Primary Care: The Outsourcing Option They Won't Tell You About". This is the tale of Care Management – the use of nurses to engage health care consumers in defining the goals of their medical treatments – has been used by both managed care health insurers and medical providers as a means of increasing quality of care and reducing health care costs. It’s no secret that most policy makers, academics and physician groups prefer that care management remain under the firm control of the patient’s physician. The Disease Management Care Blog says fine, but there are other examples of insurer-directed care management that also work. In this post, Dr. Sidorov discusses one example of such a program and points out that its advantage is economies of scale with little disruption of the physicians’ work flows.
AAAMP Blog offers another fine analysis, this one posting on Margin of Safety: Core Financial Concept is Price Matters. The life of this post is in the risk: The margin of safety is the difference between the market price and intrinsic value of an asset. Price matters is the core concept of margin of safety.
Finally for this installment, Colorado Health Insurance Insider Blog offers insights written nowhere else. Here is an excerpt from "Taxes and Individual Health Insurance": Excerpt: "People with individual health insurance usually don’t get such a benefit. The self-employed get to deduct individual health insurance premiums on the 1040, but there are plenty of people who purchase individual health insurance and are not self-employed. Early retirees are a good example, as are people who buy their own health insurance because their employer does not provide it."
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