Summary: The Inflation Reduction Act, the scaled-down version of “Building Back Better” now headed for presidential signature, has large health insurance provisions. These include multiple first-ever
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AMA President-Elect Must Engage with Single Payer
Summary: The newly elected president of the American Medical Association is an accomplished physician, both civilian and military, a philanthropic leader, and a gay parent. He
Social Democracy vs. No Democracy
Summary: Western Europe and other wealthy countries are thriving with social democracy. The US is struggling with social problems and threats to our democratic integrity. A
British Columbia Reaffirms Canadian Single Payer
Summary: Canada’s “Medicare” financing system is a leading example for the US of what single payer can accomplish. Yet there are recurring challenges to the law
Single Payer Household Cost Calculator
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This translates the recent Healthy California for All Commission findings
“I was wrong” A Health Economist Acknowledges How Financing Experiments Failed Our Health System
Summary: Imagine … a mainstream health economist apologizes for decades of promoting incremental health care financing reforms, each one failing as system performance deteriorated. He
Saving a Global Environment Conducive to Human Life is Job #1
Summary: Our human world faces two existential threats: nuclear war and global warming. Yet the public and elected officials fail to take climate devastation seriously. Health
Dr. Glaucomflecken Doctor Visit in Another Country
Summary: The unique tragedy of an expensive and ineffective US health system is summed up in a quick, hilarious sketch. Brilliant! Humor for social change is
Medicaid Coverage Does Not Assure Access to Care
Summary: Coverage with Medicaid – health insurance for the poor – increased in recent years. But as a new study reveals for cancer, coverage does not
Value-Based Care Will Bring Value to Shareholders
Summary: Building on an inauspicious decade of failed efforts to improve care or save money for Medicare, value-based care is now the darling of CMS and
Medicare REACH: Financial Incentives will Undermine Doctor-Patient Trust
Summary: Hidden in the fine print of the REACH program launched by CMS to transform traditional fee-for-service Medicare we discover a pivotal, nasty feature: Physicians will
REACH Won’t Fix the Equity Harms of Value-Based Care
Summary: A commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine by individuals consulting for huge health care companies argues that REACH, the new corporate-focused funding mechanism