Greetings HJM readers – I’m using a different format today.
#1 – Round-up. Plenty of recent news items exemplify the usual rocky functioning of US health care.
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Greetings HJM readers – I’m using a different format today.
#1 – Round-up. Plenty of recent news items exemplify the usual rocky functioning of US health care.
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Summary: This week, a profile of challenges facing the UK NHS and an op-ed proposing universal coverage in the US got so many issues right. But
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Summary: Current physician payment rules are complex, time-consuming, and unfair to primary care providers. Success of universal coverage with single payer will require a simpler and
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Summary: Dr. Glaucomflecken efficiently & amusingly skewers private equity. Plus a technical report …
How to Ace Your Private Equity Interview, 2-minute YouTube video, by Dr. Glaucomflecken
“Rapid
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Summary: The White House announced several actions to improve health care financial protections for consumers. Left in place is a fragmented and dysfunctional health insurance system
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Summary: We all spend too much time as patients wrangling medical billing. Here’s one creative approach to accounting for that. Disappears with single payer, of course.
Billing
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Summary: Democracy and health intersect and interact. Threats to one are threats to both. On this July 4th, let’s recognize these links, and redouble efforts to
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Summary: Eric Reinhart brilliantly issues a call for physicians – long a conservative force in health care – to expand their political horizon from their own
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Summary: Surprise, surprise – our fragmented, profit-driven, gap-permeated health insurance “system” leads to terrible consumer experiences accessing health care. It’s time, finally, to adopt a simple,
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Summary: The corporate takeover of medicine has forced doctors to deviate from their healing mission to attend to financial optimization for their employers. This is indeed
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Summary: An excellent op-ed in the New York Times properly highlights lessons from other wealthy nations. Diving deeper into those examples reveals that single payer is
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Summary: CMS is proposing a 10-year comparison of primary care payment models (fee-for-service and capitation, with support for care delivery systems). At first glance, why not?