The Ten Most Read GoozNews of 2022

Happy holidays to all my readers and a special thanks to all who contributed their ideas and financial support

The winter solstice. The darkest day of the year. Yet a time to celebrate the turn toward greater light with candles, festooned trees and hopes for more enlightened times in the new year.

I came into 2022 promising to limit my postings on GoozNews to once or twice a week. Having something to say is more important to me than saying something all the time, which is the trap too many writers/bloggers fall into when the marginal cost of publication is zero.

I posted just 62 articles this year, nearly all of them on health care topics. I was curious as to which ones you, my readers, thought most interesting. So I took a look.

Here they are: The Top Ten Most Read GoozNews of 2022 (in countdown style):

10. Nurse conviction a setback for patient safety (March 30)

It won't encourage new people to enter the short-staffed field, either.

9. MA plans fail to deliver better health (Oct. 10)

Studies show little difference in patient satisfaction or outcomes compared to traditional fee-for-service Medicare

8. Hospital shakeout ahead (Sept. 21)

Structural changes in health care delivery will wipe out many jobs during the coming economic slowdown

7. Nex-gen reform part 2: Ending variable pricing in health care (Dec. 2)

Why we must put a halt to the most wasteful practice in the nation’s dysfunctional payment system

6. Health insurance prices soaring (May 12)

Despite modest increases for most health care services, firms in the highly concentrated insurance industry are gouging because they can

5. Big Pharma's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card (Aug. 11)

The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed for getting tough on drug companies. In fact, they'll make out just fine by raising prices on everyone outside Medicare

4. Will hospital building boom doom cost control? (April 9)

A $2 billion expansion of Mass General Brigham in Boston could open the floodgates

3. Abortion past and present (June 20)

Hospitals and physician practices will become a battlefield in the coming struggle to preserve reproductive health rights

2. Medicare's Disadvantage (March 20)

MedPAC issues scathing report on private Medicare Advantage plans

And the most read story on GoozNews in 2022:

1. How an AMA secret society sets physician prices (May 4)

Reporters can't divulge "proprietary information" that keeps specialist pay high and primary care pay low

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa! May we all find greater peace, shared prosperity and better health in 2023. See you after New Year’s.