FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 15, 2014
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Mark Almberg, communications director PNHP, mark@pnhp.org, (312) 782-6006
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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 8, 2014
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Mark Almberg, mark@pnhp.org, (312) 782-6006
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
Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
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
Contact: Mark Almberg, communications director, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
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,
Medicare’s 1966 glitch-free rollout a sharp contrast with Obamacare: Health Affairs blog
CUNY researchers say new health law’s ‘contortions to appease private insurers’ have resulted in costly complexity, with enrollment price tag alone exceeding Medicare’s by nearly
Minority physicians care for a majority of underserved patients in the U.S.
Minority physicians also play a large role in the care of patients with poorer health, according to a new study in JAMA Internal MedicineFOR IMMEDIATE
Petty appointed executive director of PNHP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2013 Contact: Mark Almberg, communications director, mark@pnhp.org Physicians for a National Health Program announced today that Matthew Petty has been appointed
'Stronger medicine than Obamacare needed to end uninsured crisis': health expert
Citing latest Census count of 48 million uninsured, researcher says Affordable Care Act will cut that figure by only half, leaving tens of millions vulnerable
‘Medicare for All’ would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study
Economist says Canadian-style, single-payer health plan would reap huge savings from reduced paperwork and from negotiated drug prices, enough to pay
30 million to remain uninsured under Obamacare: new state-by-state estimates at Health Affairs blog
Harvard and CUNY researchers say 4.9 million Texans and 3.7 million Californians will still be uninsured in 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 6, 2013