Estimated Savings From the Medicare Shared Savings Program, JAMA Health Forum, Dec. 15, 2023, by Andrew M. Ryan & Adam A. Markovitz
The Medicare Shared Savings
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Estimated Savings From the Medicare Shared Savings Program, JAMA Health Forum, Dec. 15, 2023, by Andrew M. Ryan & Adam A. Markovitz
The Medicare Shared Savings
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The Predominance of Medicare Advantage, New England Journal of Medicine, December 14, 2023, by Gretchen Jacobson and David Blumenthal
If current trends persist, more than half
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What Does the Working Class Really Want?, The Atlantic, Dec. 11, 2023, by George Packer
From the late 1970s until very recently, the brains and dollars
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How Britain Put One of the World’s Best Health Care Systems on Life Support, Video Op-Ed (7 minutes), New York Times, Dec. 7, 2023, by
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Family health Insurance Is No Longer Affordable Through Small Employers, KFF, Nov. 28, 2023, by Drew Altman
One thing that really jumped out from our 25th
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Hospital Vitals: Financial and Operational Trends: U.S. hospitals face diminished reserves, mounting reimbursement challenges, Syntellis and American Hospital Association, November 2023
Seniors Scramble as Scripps, Other
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Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel, New York Times, Nov. 22, 2023, by Sen. Bernie Sanders
On Oct. 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization, unleashed
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Larger Employers Fund Worker Obamacare Option as Costs Spike, Bloomberg Law, Nov. 15, 2023, by Sara Hansard
Larger employers … are increasingly funding their workers’ purchases
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Summary: A valuable report lays out the harm due to a corporate takeover of medicine –deleteriously affecting the experience of both providers and patients. The American
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Summary: In October, California enacted SB 770, establishing a formal process to explore federal waivers necessary for state-level “unified financing.” Insurers vehemently opposed it, and
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Summary: Leaders of the Kaiser Family Foundation – a leading tracker of US health care – published a blog in JAMA identifying system complexity as the
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Summary: U.S. medical debt structure has substantially evolved from amounts negotiated among care participants in the 1980s, to commoditized assets and aggressive collection today. With