By Micah Hartman, Anne B. Martin, Joseph Benson, Aaron Catlin - CMS Office of the Actuary
Health Affairs, December 5, 2019
Abstract
US health care spending increased 4.6
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Declining life expectancy in the United States
By Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH; Heidi Schoomaker, MAEd
JAMA, November 26, 2019
Abstract
Importance: US life expectancy has not kept pace with that of other wealthy countries
Many low-income workers fare poorly under the Affordable Care Act
By Tara Straw
Health Affairs Blog, December 3, 2019
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) extended health coverage to more than 20 million people and strengthened consumer protections
The public option won’t fix our system
By Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, December 3, 2019
The single-payer health plans proposed by Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are often assailed as being
China to step in on drug prices
By Roxanne Liu and Brenda Goh
Physician's Weekly, Reuters, November 30, 2019
China will use its national drug bulk-buy scheme to lower the price of drugs currently
Robert Reich explains the real deal with Medicare for All
By Robert Reich
November 19, 2019
Republicans and even some Democrats are out to scare you about Medicare for All. They say it’s going to dismantle health
Hospital executives are beginning to think ‘single payer’
By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey
Boston Globe, November 26, 2019
When Senator Elizabeth Warren released her detailed Medicare for All plan this month, a coalition of insurers, hospitals,
William Hsiao has wise words for us on paying for health care
William Hsiao knows more about single payer systems than pretty much any other American. What does he think about ‘Medicare for All’?
By Maura Reynolds
POLITICO, November
Jeffrey Sachs explains why Democratic naysayers are wrong on Medicare for All
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Common Dreams, November 20, 2019
The American political debate over health care is absurd. Americans pay twice as much as any other nation
Why the neoliberals can’t fix health care
By John E. McDonough
The Milbank Quarterly, November 2019
August 19, 2019 was a big day for The Business Roundtable (TBR), the Washington, DC non-profit association of
Workers health insurance costs outpace incomes
By Sara R. Collins, David C. Radley, and Jesse C. Baumgartner
The Commonwealth Fund, November 21, 2019
Abstract
Issue: With 2020 elections coming up, some Democratic presidential candidates
What about the surge in health care from implementing Medicare for All?
By Adam Gaffney, Steffie Woolhandler, and David Himmelstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Online November 19, 2019
Abstract
Most analysts project that a reform like Medicare-for-All that lowers