Summary: Dr. Danielle Ofri, an insightful commentator on the practice of medicine, overlooked annual re-enrollment for her health insurance at work due to an email glitch.
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Queer Women Select Health Care Access as #1 Priority
Summary: A new poll finds that queer women, asked for policy priorities, most often named universal health care at the top, following by climate change. Health
Strong Swiss Support for a Single National Health Insurer
Summary: Switzerland if often cited as an example of how private insurance (highly standardized and not-for-profit) can achieve universal coverage. Yet, a recent poll found 3
Medicare Advantage Overpayment >$100 Billion
Summary: Physicians for a National Health Program released a valuable summary of Medicare Advantage overpayments. The scope and scale is breathtaking: $100 billion annual payoff for
Lancet Panel on Investor-Owned Health Care
Summary: The recent Lancet webinar on private for-profit ownership of US health care assembled leading experts on this crucial issue. We must – and can –
Denied Medical Claims Most Likely with Private Insurance & Rarely Resolved
Summary: This national survey finds that 21% of privately insured individuals had claims denied in the last year, on top of a similar frequency of denied
Health Reform Essentials in Entertaining 2-Minute Videos
Summary: Dr. Glaucomflecken and John Stewart offer a master class on how to concisely convey what’s wrong with US health insurance and why. A dozen 2-minute
Understanding & Fighting Investor Ownership of Health Care
Summary: Private for-profit ownership of health care is undermining the health care mission, diverting care resources to shareholder bank accounts. Single payer financing is not enough
US Health Care Is Pretty Good … If You Own an Insurance Company
Summary: Jon Stewart nails it in a vivid one-minute video: Our government-funded health care benefits private for-profit corporations, especially insurers, at our expense.
America’s F*cked Up
Let’s Not Further Privatize Medicare
Summary: A new book by mainstream health economists and policymakers argues that we should expand and tinker with Medicare Advantage to save Medicare. But why double
How Tom Scully Scuppered Health Coverage
Summary: The man who as a federal policy official drove the privatization of Medicare then jumped to the private sector and profited massively from the changes.
The Avaricious Ascent of UnitedHealth Group
Summary: This summer The American Prospect ran 8 terrific health policy articles, which HJM covers starting today. First up: a blow-by-blow account of the rise of the enormous,