Americans Are Angry About Their Health Insurance – With Good Reason, Common Dreams, Jan. 1, 2025, by Claudia Fegan, MD (National Coordinator, PNHP)
As a physician,
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Shareholder Dreams or Health Justice?
Health Insurers Gave $120 Billion To Shareholders While Denying Your Claim, The Lever, Dec. 11, 2024, by Veronica Riccobene
As rising health care costs and inadequate
Estimated US Deaths Associated with Health Insurance / Access to Care
This week, a careful reader asked me to justify this estimate from November 2021: “The US excess mortality age 20-64 is about 1.4 per 1000 per
The Flawed Corporate Health Care Model
UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It., New York Times, Dec. 13, 2024, by Andrew Witty, C.E.O. UnitedHealth Group, parent
Deaths due to Willful Systemic Failings are Violent, Too
A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?, What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America, The New Yorker, Dec. 7,
U.S. Seniors Experience Worst Cost Barriers to Care
Health Care Affordability for Older Adults: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries, Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 4, 2024, by Munira Z. Gunja et al.
Like several
Choice Among Private Insurance Options Isn’t Real Choice
The State of Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S., Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2024 Biennial Health Insurance Survey, Nov. 21, 2024, by Sara R.
New Government: Time to Revisit Single Payer?
Complexity in the US Health Care System Is the Enemy of Access and Affordability, JAMA Forum, Oct. 26, 2023, by Larry Levitt and Drew Altman
Lack
HJM with the US Political Shift
Comment:
By Jim Kahn, M.D., M.P.H. and Don McCanne, M.D.
First, sincere apologies for the two-week lapse in HJM postings. We were consumed with worry leading up
The Single Solution for a Myriad of Health Care Challenges
Perspective Roundtable: Critical Health Care Challenges for the Next U.S. President, New England Journal of Medicine, October 16, 2024, by Robert J. Blendon, et al.
The
Half Measures Won’t Cure Health Insurance
The Only Way to Fix US Health Care, Review of: We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care (Einav & Finkelstein), New York Review of
ACA Open Enrollment = Confusion + Scams
What’s New and What To Watch For in the Upcoming ACA Open Enrollment Period, KFF Health News, October 8, 2024, by Julie Appleby
It’s that time