SGR Repeal Bill Favors Primary CareBy Robert LowesMedscape Medical News, February 6, 2013Two members of Congress today reintroduced an ambitious bill that would repeal Medicare's

The Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula seemed to be an equitable method of slowing the non-sustainable increases in Medicare spending. What happened?

As we assess the severe deficiencies in our primary care infrastructure, it is important to recognize the phenomenal contribution of our National Health Service Corps

Focus Groups Highlight That Many Patients Object To Clinicians’ Focusing On CostsRoseanna Sommers, Susan Dorr Goold, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Steven D. Pearson and Marion DanisHealth

Much attention is being directed today toward the very high costs that plague the U.S. health care system. That attention has not equated with effectiveness

Impact of Continued Biased Disenrollment from the Medicare Advantage Program to Fee-for-ServiceBy Gerald F. RileyCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare & Medicaid Research Review

There are two important take-home points here. One is that we should stop wasting taxpayer funds on both the excesses of the Medicare Advantage plans,

New Report Examines Physician Out-of-Network ChargesAHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans), February 1, 2013The insurance lobby organization, AHIP, is correct when they point out that patients

States rethink high-risk-pool plansBy Brett NormanPOLITICO, January 29, 2013When the health exchanges open next year, they will cover some of the sickest and costliest patients,

In a single payer financing system, health care is simply paid for out of a publicly-financed, single risk pool that covers everyone, regardless of how

Fact Sheet: Individual Shared Responsibility for Health Insurance Coverage and Minimum Essential Coverage Proposed RulesCenters for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesJanuary 30, 2013Today CMS and the