Harvard researchers find lengthy waits for severely ill psychiatric patientsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 23, 2013A study published today in Annals of Emergency Medicine reports lengthy waits
Study reveals austerity’s harmful impact on health in Greece
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 18, 2013 Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org Findings are ‘much worse than we imagined,’ researcher says In one
Obama administration intervenes to give $71.5 billion to overpaid, for-profit Medicare Advantage plans
Physicians group decries ‘backroom Medicare giveaway’FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 9, 2013 Contact: Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org
Setting the record straight on Medicare’s overhead costs
Traditional Medicare’s administrative costs were only 1% in 2010, but if you roll in the private insurers’ Medicare plans, that figure
Doctors group hails reintroduction of Medicare-for-all bill
Single-payer health program would cover all 50 million uninsured, upgrade everyone’s benefits and save $400 billion annually on bureaucracy, physicians sayFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Feb. 14,
Canada’s health costs for seniors rising slowly, points way to Medicare solvency: Archives of Internal Medicine article
Researchers find the U.S. could have saved more than $2.15 trillion on Medicare since 1980 had it employed cost-saving measures similar to Canada'sEMBARGOED until Oct.
Financial incentives may sap motivation, undermine quality: Health Affairs article
Recent findings in behavioral economics may help explain how pay-for-performance schemes in health care can ‘crowd-out’ intrinsic motivation and worsen performanceFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:October 12, 2012Contact:Steffie
Despite slight drop in uninsured, last year’s figure points to 48,000 preventable deaths: health expert
Persistence of large numbers of uninsured and related deaths shows urgency of enacting an improved-Medicare-for-all system, physician says FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 12, 2012 Contact:
Performance pay for physicians may backfire: BMJ editorial
Pay-for-performance schemes may do more harm than good by changing the mindset required for good doctoring, experts sayEMBARGOED untilAug. 14, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern
‘Health law upheld, but health needs still unmet’: national doctors group
Although the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act, the law will not remedy the U.S. health
Physicians challenge WellPoint on disclosure of political spending
‘Healthcare dollars should be
Health law, constitutional or no, fails to remedy ailment: doctors group
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 26, 2012Contact:Garrett Adams, M.D., president PNHPAndrew Coates, M.D., president-elect PNHPOliver Fein, M.D.David Himmelstein, M.D.Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, (312) 782-6006,