Postings and Commentary

Examining Healthcare: The Industry & Its Policies

 

Professor Davidson has been a faculty member at Boston University School of Management since 1985. His research interests and areas of expertise include: management of health care organizations, working relationships of managers and physicians, health insurance, health policy, M&A in health care organization, and evaluation of health care programs. (Curriculum Vitae)

Blog Postings

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  • What’s Wrong With Me? (The Huffington Post)
  • The Final Push (The Huffington Post)
  • Insurers v. Hospitals: Another Reason We Need Reform (The Huffington Post)
  • What Should Progressives Do? (The Huffington Post)
  • Still Worth Passing (The Huffington Post)
  • By Revealing Their True Colors, Insurers Eliminate Any Reason to Compromise
  • With Them (The Huffington Post)
  • The Devil is in the Details (The Huffington Post)
  • Free Now To Do the Right Thing (The Huffington Post)
  • Reform with and without the Public Option (The Huffington Post)
  • Why the Public Option Is Critical (The Huffington Post)
  • Paying for Health Care Reform, Part II (The Huffington Post)
  • Paying for Health Care Reform, Part I (The Huffington Post)

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  • Free Now To Do the Right Thing (The Great Debate, Reuters.com)
  • A Simple Fix for Healthcare (The Great Debate, Reuters.com)
  • Liberals and Conservatives on Healthcare Reform (The Great Debate, Reuters.com)

    • Other Commentaries and Appearances

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  • Philosophical Differences (Politico)
  • TWIB: The Road to Healthcare Reform (NECN)
  • Breaking through the Healthcare Impasse (Bostonia)
  • Solving the Health Care Reform Puzzle: How to Balance Cost, Access, and Quality (BUniverse)

    • Letters to the Editor

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  • Health Reform after Massachusetts (New York Times)
  • The Public Option and Other Choices (New York Times)
  • Doctors’ Orders Are Where Costs Escalate (Boston Globe)
  • Are In-store Clinics the Prescription We Need? (Boston Globe)
  • Why Not Insure Children? (New York Times)
  • Cutting Hospital Connections to Cut Costs (New York Times)
  • After the Great Recession (New York Times Magazine)
  • Tugging at Patients’ Costs Won’t Solve Health System Woes (Boston Globe)

    • Books

  • Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System (forthcoming from Stanford University Press)
  • Building a Healthcare Organization (Beard Books, Inc., 2005, with Janelle Heineke and Marion McCollom)
  • Remaking Medicaid: Managed Care for the Public Good (Jossey-Bass Pub. Co., 1998, with S.A. Somers)
  • The Physician-Manager Alliance: Building the Healthy Health Care Organization (Jossey-Bass Pub. Co., 1996, with Janelle Heineke and Marion McCollum)