We have to remove profit from the health care equation, just like Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase intend to do.By Richard MasterUSA Today, Feb.
Readers And Tweeters Add Two Cents On Amazon Venture To Repackage Health Care
By Carol Paris, M.D.Kaiser Health News, Feb. 6, 2018We were disappointed KHN’s “Expert Advice” did not include input from advocates for a single-payer system. So,
Single-payer health care cuts costs
Insurance administrators are not evil. They are, rather, a product of our uniquely dysfunctional health care system.By Samuel Metz, M.D.Portland (Ore.) Tribune, Feb. 1, 2018Measure
Health Insurance Reform in the United States – What, How, and Why?
By Adam Gaffney, M.D.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Point/Counterpoint, Winter 2018By Adam Gaffney, M.D. | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2018
Last summer,
Pay for performance: a dangerous health policy fad that won’t die
The latest research shows that this carrot-and-stick approach to improving health care doesn't work.By Kip Sullivan and Stephen SoumeraiSTAT News, Jan. 30, 2018Pay for performance,
How The ACA Affected Household Medical Spending
By Carey Goldberg and Meghna ChakrabartiWBUR, CommonHealth, Jan. 22, 2018By Carey Goldberg and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR, CommonHealth, Jan. 22, 2018
A new study out in
Has ACA Made Health Care More Affordable?
Yes for some, no for others -- but affordability wasn't the law's only goal.By F. Perry Wilson, M.D., M.S.C.E.MedPage Today, Jan. 22, 2018By F. Perry
The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality
Even with the Affordable Care Act, the premium and payment structure of insurance increases the relative income gap between rich and poor.By Vann R. Newkirk
Three ways to cut — and improve — Medicare
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.STAT, Jan. 17, 2018The Republicans are right. We should cut Medicare. And I know how: Keep Medicare’s funding for actual health care
Why does it cost $32,093 just to give birth in America?
The US is the most expensive nation in the world in which to have a baby – and it may factor into thousands of bankruptcies
The true problem and solution to high drug prices
By Elizabeth CarsonThe Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2018By Elizabeth Carson | The Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2018
The Jan. 3 Economy & Business article “Under fire,
Trump is right: Negotiate for lower drug prices
By Rob Stone, M.D., Chris Stack, M.D., and Fran QuigleyIndianapolis Star, Jan. 4, 2018All Hoosiers have seen the headlines about drug price increases, and too
