By Jenny Deam
Houston Chronicle, October 10, 2019
As many as 100,000 UnitedHealthcare plan members could lose in-network access to all eight Houston Methodist hospitals and dozens
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High deductibles impair access and financial security of COPD patients
By Adam Gaffney, Alexander White, Laura Hawks, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, David C Christiani, and Danny McCormick
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, October 10, 2019
Abstract
Rationale:
Turning fraud and abuse control over to the potential abusers
By Bob Herman
Axios, October 10, 2019
The Trump administration is proposing to loosen regulations that prohibit doctors from steering patients insured by federal programs to facilities
Why choice of private plans or a ‘public option’ is bad policy
Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.
By David U. Himmelstein, M.D. and
JAMA study dismisses administrative waste
Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings
By William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS 1; Teresa L. Rogstad, MPH 1; Natasha Parekh, MD, MS 2
JAMA, Special Communication, October
Presidential Proclamation to deny entry to uninsured immigrants
By Associated Press
Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2019
Immigrants applying for U.S. visas will be denied entry into the country unless they can prove they can
Lower drug costs now
By Henry A. Waxman
Health Affairs Blog, October 4, 2019
As Americans, we like to think of ourselves as number one in everything, but in some cases
President Trump’s executive order: ‘Protecting Medicare from Socialist Destruction’
By Annie Karni and Abby Goodnough
The New York Times, October 3, 2019, Updated 2:38 p.m. ET
President Trump is expected to unveil a new executive order
The equitable essence of wealth taxes
By Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kaplan
The New York Times, October 1, 2019
Progressive Democrats are advocating the most drastic shift in tax policy in over a
Hospital Readmission Reduction Program is a dud
By Jordan Rau
Kaiser Health News, October 1, 2019
Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals Tuesday, continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year campaign to financially pressure hospitals
Cancer detection and mortality improve under Medicare
By Rebecca Mary Myerson, Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Dana Goldman, and Darius N. Lakdawalla
National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
Abstract
Medicare is the largest government insurance program in
The public needs more information on single payer Medicare for All
By Sara R. Collins and Munira Z. Gunja
The Commonwealth Fund, September 2019
Replacing private insurance with public insurance like Medicare does not have strong support, but