Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the EffectsBy Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., Barak D. Richman, J.D., Ph.D., and Regina E. Herzlinger, D.B.A.The New England Journal
For more than 20 years, PNHP’s Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.
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Transition to defined contributions is underway
Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the Effects
By Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., Barak D. Richman, J.D., Ph.D., and Regina E. Herzlinger, D.B.A.
The New England Journal
Disturbing PwC report on employer medical cost trends
Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2015PricewaterhouseCoopersPwC Health Research Institute, June 2014PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) projects 2015’s medical cost trend to be 6.8% —
Disturbing PwC report on employer medical cost trends
Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2015
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PwC Health Research Institute, June 2014
PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) projects 2015’s medical cost trend to be 6.8% —
ACA not adequate to offset insurance loss from divorce
Marital Disruption and Health InsuranceBy H. Elizabeth Peters, Kosali Simon, and Jamie Rubenstein TaberNational Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper No. 20233, June 2014To
ACA not adequate to offset insurance loss from divorce
Marital Disruption and Health Insurance
By H. Elizabeth Peters, Kosali Simon, and Jamie Rubenstein Taber
National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper No. 20233, June 2014
Despite
Arnold “Bud” Relman
Dr. Arnold Relman, Outspoken Medical Editor, Dies at 91By Douglas MartinThe New York Times, June 21, 2014In a provocative essay in the New England journal
Arnold “Bud” Relman
Dr. Arnold Relman, Outspoken Medical Editor, Dies at 91
By Douglas Martin
The New York Times, June 21, 2014
In a provocative essay in the New England journal
Facts disappoint both sides of the reform debate
Survey of Non-Group Health Insurance EnrolleesBy Liz Hamel, Mira Rao, Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton, Cynthia Cox, Karen Pollitz and Mollyann BrodieKaiser Family Foundation, June 19,
Facts disappoint both sides of the reform debate
Survey of Non-Group Health Insurance Enrollees
By Liz Hamel, Mira Rao, Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton, Cynthia Cox, Karen Pollitz and Mollyann Brodie
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 19,
Aetna’s Bertolini assures us that premium increases will be less than 20%
Premiums Rise at Big Insurers, Fall at Small Rivals Under Health LawBy Louise RadnofskyThe Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2014Hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide
Aetna’s Bertolini assures us that premium increases will be less than 20%
Premiums Rise at Big Insurers, Fall at Small Rivals Under Health Law
By Louise Radnofsky
The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2014
Hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide