Month: May 2016

  • Miamians, you’re paying more than Ohio peers for health coverage

      Here’s our latest working paper—Part II in a series on Miami’s health plans. (The earlier paper focused on gaps in coverage, such as the fact that there’s no limit on out-of-network costs for Miami employees.) In this paper, you’ll find out that Miami employees generally spend more on health insurance coverage than employees at…

  • “A very good business opportunity”: the Ohio higher-ed giveaway

    This is a complicated story but it’s important if you care about higher education in Ohio and higher-ed trends across the US. University of Akron’s President Scarborough had/has a bold plan to expand the university into satellite campusus—some outside the state—by taking over ITT Tech (the for-profit failure). How would he run them? By outsourcing…