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,
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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
Time to Take to the Streets to Demand Medicare for All!
Sanders, Jayapal Put Single Payer Medicare for All on Back Burner, Corporate Crime Reporter, May 10, 2021, by Russell Mokhiber
Single payer activists want Medicare for
Guarantee Coverage for All Medically Necessary Services – Including Reproductive Care
Supreme Court to review Mississippi abortion law that advocates see as a path to diminish Roe v. Wade, Washington Post, May 17, 2021, by Robert
Hospital and Group Practice Profit Motive Poses as Big a Threat as Insurers
Recent Changes in Physician Practice Arrangements: Private Practice Dropped to Less Than 50 Percent of Physicians in 2020, AMA Economic and Health Policy Research, May
Learning from COVID-19: Public Funding of Drug Development
The covid-19 vaccine patent waiver: a crucial step towards a “people’s vaccine”, BMJ blog, May 10, 2021, by Gregg Gonsalves and Gavin Yamey
“An IP waiver
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