By Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
International Journal of Health Services, June 9, 2020
Abstract
While the COVID-19 pandemic presents every nation with challenges, the United
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Health policy trade-offs: keep good, dump bad
By Linda J. Blumberg
Urban Institute, June 2020
Exploring the Five Core Questions Necessary to Evaluate the Trade-Offs Inherent in a Health Reform Proposal
Evaluating the trade-offs inherent
Hospital CEOs paid millions while many workers furloughed
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Jesse Drucker and David Enrich
The New York Times, June 8, 2020
The New York Times analyzed tax and securities filings by 60 of
Oliver Wyman’s four economic scenarios for health care in 2030
By Fritz Heese and David Fries
Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman, Accessed June 5, 2020
There are a few claims we’re making (with confidence!) about healthcare’s future.
Challenging inequality through the ‘civil rights of health’
By Angela P. Harris and Aysha Pamukcu
Law and Political Economy, June 4, 2020
“We’re all in this together” has become a familiar call for strengthening our
ACOs are shifting the workforce to non-physician practitioners
By David J. Nyweide, Woolton Lee, and Carrie H. Colla
Health Affairs, June 2020
Abstract
Both the number and the size of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the
China’s delay, WHO’s frustration, and US’s abdication
By The Associated Press
AP, June 2, 2020
Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new
AMA statement on Trump severing ties with WHO
By Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A.
President, American Medical Association
AMA, May 29, 2020
"In the grip of a global pandemic that has already killed more than 100,000
Losing Medicaid coverage during the postpartum period
By Stacey McMorrow, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve M. Kenney, Emily M. Johnston, and Clara Alvarez Caraveo
Urban Institute, May 28, 2020
Abstract
Alarming increases in US maternal mortality have
Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’
By Arundhati Roy
Financial Times, April 3, 2020
But unlike the flow of capital, this virus seeks proliferation, not profit, and has, therefore, inadvertently, to some extent,
What is ‘integrated care’ and do we want it?
By Gemma Hughes, Sara E. Shaw, Trisha Greenhalgh
The Milbank Quarterly, May 20, 2020
Abstract
Context: Integrated care is a broad concept, used to describe a connected set
Bailout funds go to the wealthiest hospitals
By Jesse Drucker, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Sarah Kliff
The New York Times, May 25, 2020
A multibillion-dollar institution in the Seattle area invests in hedge funds, runs
