FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 27, 2015
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The Affordable Care Act will add more than a quarter of a trillion dollars to the already
‘Health care equity key to Ebola fight’: doctors, nurses petition Obama
Health Affairs Blog article highlights petition to President Obama from more than 1,400 health professionals who say Ebola epidemic is linked to global inequality –
Health law hasn’t cut insurers’ rate of overhead spending: study
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2015
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Despite claims by the Obama administration that the Affordable Care Act will reduce health insurance companies’ spending
Health law’s complexity invites attack, even as it fails to cure ailment: doctors group
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 12, 2015
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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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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