Ultra-Expensive Drugs And Medicare Part D: Spending And Beneficiary Use Up Sharply, Health Affairs, June 2021, by So-Yeon Kang, Daniel Polsky, Jodi B. Segal, and
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Medicine Must Meet the Moment on Racial Justice
AMA Doctors Meet Amid Vocal Backlash Over Racial Equity Plan, U.S. News, June 12, 2021, by Lindsey Tanner
The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is
Colorado’s Pseudo-Public Option
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
On Monday, lawmakers in Colorado passed a bill that would establish what some might call a “state public option” plan, although
Uninsured Adults Nearing Medicare Age More Likely to Die from Cancer
Cancer Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries And Their Younger Uninsured Counterparts, Health Affairs, May 2021, by Gerard Silvestri, Ahmedin Jemal, K. Robin Yabroff, Stacey Fedewa, and
The Buffett-Bezos-Dimon-Gawande insurance fail? A powerful policy lesson!
How Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire Hathaway took on America’s health care system—and lost, Fortune, June 1, 2021, by Erika Fry
Was it a press release, or
Insurers That Squeeze Care are Killing Thousands of Enrollees Each Year
Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 6, 2021, by Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull,
Let’s Not Mourn the Death of the Public Option
The health insurance public option might be fizzling. The left is OK with that., NBC News, June 5, 2021, by Benjy Sarlin and Sahil Kapur
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Public Insurers Provide Better Access, Financial Protection, & Satisfaction Than Private Insurers
Access to Care, Cost of Care, and Satisfaction With Care Among Adults With Private and Public Health Insurance in the US, JAMA Network Open, June
Time to Abandon Pay For Performance
Time and Financial Costs for Physician Practices to Participate in the Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System: A Qualitative Study, JAMA Health Forum, May 14, 2021,
Single Payer Must Include Rational & Compassionate Long Term Care
Health Care Use and Out-of-pocket Spending by Persons With Dementia Differ Between Europe and the United States, Medicare Care, June 2021, by Sabrina Lenzen, Pieter
ACA Marketplace 2021 Enrollment Rise in Nonexpansion States – No Cure
UI effect? ACA marketplace enrollment soared at low incomes in nonexpansion states in 2021, XPOSTFACTOID, May 3, 2021, by Andrew Sprung
I don’t think it’s an
COVID Payment Burdens Echo How U.S. Health System Routinely Fails Patients
Covid Killed His Father. Then Came $1 Million in Medical Bills., NY Times, May 21, 2021, by Sarah Kliff
Insurers and Congress wrote rules to protect