King v. Burwell shows how Affordable Care Act’s corporate-inspired, convoluted structure makes it an easy target for opponents Latest legal challenge threatens to
$375 billion wasted on billing and health insurance-related paperwork annually: study
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Medical billing paperwork and insurance-related red tape cost the U.S. economy approximately $471 billion
Single payer in Vermont and the U.S.: Now IS the time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Dec. 17, 2014Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, 312-782-6006, mark@pnhp.orgThe following statement was released today by Dr. Andrew D. Coates, president of
Medical students to hold nationwide ‘die-ins’ and protests Wednesday because #BlackLivesMatter
Students at more than 70 medical schools – in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere
AMA med students back state laws to achieve universal care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 11, 2014 Contact: Mark Almberg, communications director PNHP, mark@pnhp.org DALLAS – The Medical Student Section of the American Medical Association
Administrative work consumes one-sixth of U.S. physicians’ time and erodes their morale, researchers say
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 23, 2014
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The average U.S. doctor spends 16.6 percent of his or her working hours on non-patient-related
Psychiatrist appointments hard to get, even for insured: Psychiatric Services study
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Oct. 15, 2014
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Obtaining access to private outpatient psychiatric care in the Boston, Chicago and Houston metropolitan areas
Bureaucracy consumes one-quarter of US hospitals’ budgets, twice as much as in other nations: Health Affairs study
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Sept. 8, 2014
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A study of hospital administrative costs in eight nations published today in the September issue of Health Affairs finds that hospital bureaucracy
For-profit home care agencies cost Medicare billions extra, yet provide worse care: Health Affairs study
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Aug. 4, 2014
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For-profit home health agencies are far costlier for Medicare than nonprofit agencies, according
More than 7,100 deaths likely from states’ rejection of Medicaid expansion: Health Affairs Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 30, 2014
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The decision by 25 states to reject the expansion of Medicaid coverage under the
Oncologists call for single payer in leading cancer journal
Article in leading cancer journal calls on oncologists to support single-payer national health insurance FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 17, 2014Contact: Mark Almberg, communications director, Physicians
‘Accountable care’ model revives HMO strategy, boding ill for patients, physicians: JGIM article
Latest physician payment reforms point to ‘global amnesia’ in the bandwagon-like embrace of ‘fee-for-NON-service’ model of failed HMOsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 7, 2014Contact: Mark Almberg,