Thomas Cox PhD RN
Polymath: Mathematician, statistician, nurse, social worker, insurance and reinsurance rate making and reserving, educator, researcher, and more.
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BA Mathematics Hofstra; MS Applied Mathematics and Statistics Stony Brook; MSW Social Welfare Stony Brook; BSN Nursing Florida; MS Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing/PhD Nursing Virginia CommonwealthInterests
health, health care finance, health care policy, nursing, social work, mathematics, statistics, risk theory, computers, programming, data analysis, professional caregiver insurance risk, insurance rate making, reserving and expense accounting, psychotheraAffiliations
Professional Caregiver Insurance Risk, Standard Errors: Our Failing Health Care (Finance) Systems And How To Fix Them, American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau - International Nursing Honor Society, Professional Association for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, American Statistical AssociationFavorites
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The Thing No Insurer Wants You to KnowEvery state requires insurers to file requests for changes in their premium rates. Premiums seem to be set by "Markets." But some insurers will earn huge profits, while others will incur huge losses, when all insurers charge the same premiums. Why?
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A Efficient Person's Guide to National Health InsuranceUnderstanding how insurance works is critical to good policymaking. Unfortunately most people do not understand the basics of insurer operations. This article will help.
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When is Health Insurance Not Really Health Insurance?Health insurance has changed duing the last four decades. Most changes are injurious to the health and welfare of patients and their health care providers who manage the risks associated with their patients' health care costs terribly inefficiently.
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How to Destroy Medicare and Impoverish Senior CitizensMany Republican and Conservative voters and members of Congress would like to strip senior citizens of Medicare benefits. What their plan would accomplish?
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Rolling Two DiceWhat happens when we roll two, unbiased dice. A matrix layout of the outcomes in terms of a 6 x 6 display of ordered pairs. -
How the Three Bears Went BankruptDiscusses the impact of savings, consumption, and spending on financial stability and progress
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Why We Do Not Insure Lightbulbs!Explores the basis for successful insurance mechanisms and why insuring against certain events makes no sense.
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Open Letter to President Obama #1Some thoughts on how the mortgage crisis might have been better handled
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Fixing Medicare and Health CareFixing our broken health care (finance) systems requires restructuring how we finance health care, what we expect from health care providers, and a recognition of economic realities very different than we hear about on MSNBC, FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS.
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Should 'ObamaCare' Be Repealed or Declared Unconstitutional?This article discusses the mandatory purchase requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and why the mandatory purchase requirement ought to be overturned.
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Ten Things Passive-Aggressive Bosses Do and How to Cope with ThemThe characteristics of the Passive-Aggressive personality disorder are reviewed and examples of passive-aggressive behavior by bosses are described along with ways to counter the impact of such behavior
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Five Really Bad Health Care Finance IdeasSeveral examples of flawed health care finance ideas are described and alternative approaches suggested. Most health care finance reform suggestions are flawed mathematically and economically.
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Health Care Finance Reform - a Love AffairA health care finance researcher's personal reminiscences on how health care finance reform affects patients, providers and the public health.
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Five Things You Don't Know About Your Relationship with Your Health Care ProviderRelationships between providers and consumers of health care services have changed dramatically the last few decades. TV still portrays the old relationships but has failed to capture the role providers play as health insurers for their patients.
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Nearly Stranded on New Year's Eve in Rural VirginiaAuthor's tale of driving through rural Virginia on New Year's Eve, in bitter cold, and an unreliable car.
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Sarah Palin's Death Panels: Facts and FictionsSarah Palin opened a can of worms, suggesting that the health care finance reform law would lead to death panels. Will we have death panels in every town? Will we euthanize people because they are old or sick? Let's see.
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My funniest Christmas MemoryA Christmas story about driving through the snow listening to Jean Shepherd talk about his movie, A Christmas Story
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What's so great about Being a Bee KeeperReflections of bee keeping. How I learned to live with bees and enjoy honey even more.
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Getting Your Kid to Grow Up to Be a NurseDifferent ways parents can encourage their children to select nursing as a career, including professional preparation, academic and career options.
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My Worst Travel ExperienceAn unpleasant vacation airline travel experience nearly ruined by an uncooperative ticketing agent. But the last laugh was on him.