Low Cognitive Ability And Poor Skill With Numbers May Prevent Many From Enrolling In Medicare Supplemental CoverageBy Sewin Chan and Brian ElbelHealth Affairs, August 2012AbstractThis
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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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Low cognitive ability impairs enrollment in Medicare supplemental plans
This study demonstrates that low cognitive ability decreases enrollment in supplemental Medicare insurance plans, preventing these individuals from having the financial protections and other benefits
Fireworks! Orchestras! and dancing doctors!
Fireworks! Orchestras! and dancing doctors!Health Care - A Counter-Ceremony Honoring America's Health Care SystemBy Kevin HorriganSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 5, 2012"Perhaps not surprisingly in a
Fireworks! Orchestras! and dancing doctors!
Obama could enter the stadium on his trusty steed "Single Payer," and immediately run into the obscure maze of "Machinery Politics," knocking Obama off of
Single payer slips into CAP forum
Cutting Health Care Costs: Leading Experts Propose Bold SolutionsCenter for American ProgressAugust 2, 2012The Center for American Progress convened leading health policy expertsāincluding current and
Single payer slips into CAP forum
This is a followup to yesterday's Quote of the Day message on a forum on recommendations to contain health care spending, sponsored by the Center
Center for American Progress effort to contain health care spending
A Systemic Approach to Containing Health Care SpendingBy Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Neera Tanden, J.D., Stuart Altman, Ph.D., Scott Armstrong, M.B.A., Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P.,
Center for American Progress effort to contain health care spending
With some fanfare today the recommendations on containing health care spending, advanced by a group of experts convened by the Center for American Progress (CAP),
Acceleration of merger and acquisition activity
Dollar Volume of Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Doubles in the Second Quarter of 2012, According to New Report from Irving Levin Associates, Inc.Irving Levin
Acceleration of merger and acquisition activity
Following the Supreme Court decision to uphold the fundamentals of the Affordable Care Act, merger and acquisition activities have accelerated within the health care industry.
Concentration of health care spending
The Concentration of Health Care SpendingNational Institute for Health Care ManagementJuly 2012The healthier half of our population accounts for only 3 percent of health care
Concentration of health care spending
The healthier half of our population accounts for only 3 percent of health care spending, whereas the top 5 percent was responsible for nearly half