The only big losers are the private insurance companies – and that’s okay with me
By James G. Kahn, M.D., M.P.H.
The Mercury-News, April 2, 2019
How to
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ACP, maybe; AMA, no
Physicians can have an outsized influence on the debate around Medicare for All versus private insurance.
By Robert B. Doherty
ACP Internist, Washington Perspective, April 2019
When Medicare
Characteristics of Medicare for All and Its Rivals
By Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH; David U. Himmelstein, MD
Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2, 2019
The leading option for health reform in the United States would
The public’s view of high health care costs
POLITICO, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, March 2019
PART I: REASONS FOR THE NATION’S HIGH HEALTH CARE COSTS
The Public’s Views about the Reasons for
Milliman footnote on ‘disruptive’
Milliman, March 2019
At its core, a single-payer system is one in which the system’s primary financing (and oftentimes the primary enrollment) comes from a single
The fundamental flaw in the Trump Administration’s approach to health care
The Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers, March 2019
As shown in the Report that follows, we are ushering in an era of renewed
Spending growth greater in employer-sponsored, private plans than in Medicare
By Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Charles Gray, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen
Health Affairs, February 2019
Abstract
We examined the growth in health spending on people with
Democrats bailing on real health care reform
By Robert Pear
The New York Times, March 25, 2019
On Tuesday, Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will put aside, at least for now, the liberal
The high cost of preserving choice of private plans
By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, March 23, 2019
At the heart of the “Medicare for all” proposals championed by Senator Bernie Sanders
AP-NORC poll: Americans want more government spending on health care
By Hannah Fingerhut and Andrew Taylor
Associated Press, March 21, 2019
A growing majority of Americans want greater government spending on health care, and the increase is
The fallacy that you can keep the insurance you have
By Patrick Svitek
The Texas Tribune, March 17, 2019
Beto O'Rourke has long advocated for "universal, guaranteed, high-quality health care for all."
But O'Rourke has a less-than-straightforward history
Medicaid is a health care program, not a work program
By Jennifer Wagner
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 19, 2019
A large majority of the more than 18,000 Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries who lost their Medicaid