This conversation originally aired on Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP as part of the podcast, Point by Point.

Ido Schoenberg, M.D., the Co-founder and CEO of Amwell, said this recently about Amazon’s entry into the telehealth space:

Highly competitive markets have price elasticity; monopolistic markets do not. Transparent markets have price elasticity; opaque markets do not.

Until 1992, the word “goat” was used in sports to describe someone who made a crucial mistake to cost their team a game, with Bill Buckner’s misplay of Mookie Wilson’s “little roller up along first” in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series forever etched in the minds of..

The hospital business is a negative-sum game.

Alabama won another college football national championship last week, the seventh for Coach Nick Saban in the past 16 years. With the win, Coach Saban surpassed another Alabama coach, Bear Bryant, who previously held the record for most national championships by a..

Poker players know that if you sit down at the table and cannot figure out who the "mark" is, then it is you.

Over the holidays, an executive with one of the nation’s largest health systems asked me about our Farr’s Law posts, wondering whether things had turned out as we anticipated. His question was based in part on the media’s incessant coverage of the number of..

Hindsight is 20/15, and in hindsight America’s response to the pandemic could have been better. What matters now is what we can change for the better now. The First Law of Holes, aka The Law of Holes, is this: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” The..