…new marketing definition, CMS is adopting more appropriate requirements and oversight for a new category of materials and activities called “communications.” Maximum Out-of-Pocket and Cost Sharing Limits CMS is revising…
What is Universal Healthcare?
…national prosperity and personal health. 1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/25/eight-health-care-lobbyis_n_477215.html 2. http://www.opensecrets.org/ industries/indus.php?ind=H03#lobtotals2 3. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html 4. http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/health.cfm4 5. http://www.wtop.com/?nid=120&sid=22744035 6. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:7:./temp/~c111xl6p71:e81188: Section 1311, b(1) 7. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_12/027059.php 8. http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artDialysis.php6 9. http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_175438787 10. https://pnhp.org/news/2011/february/summary-hr-676-the-expanded-improved-medicare-for-all-act http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=health_fitness&sc=health&sc2=features&sc3=&id=117433…
Hospitals in New York City segregated by race and insurance status: new study
Black and low-income New Yorkers largely shut out of major academic hospitals
New study finds substantial segregation in New York’s hospital system, but less in Boston’s FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Friday, February 3, 2017 Contact: Mark Almberg, PNHP communications director, 312-782-6006, mark@pnhp.org Few…
New York: Gottfried, Perkins introduce universal health care bill
…Assembly Health Committee chair. “Coverage should be driven by the needs of patients, not insurance companies and stockholders. You and your doctor work to keep you healthy. New York Health…
Recourse Grows Slim for Immigrants Who Fall Ill
…loan, said Jinny J. Park, a health specialist at Korean Community Services. And mothers at the Latin American Integration Center in Queens worry unnecessarily that free medical care will later…
N.Y. Assembly passes universal health care bill
…two major hurdles, resistance from senior citizens to giving up Medicare for a new state program and obtaining federal waivers to apply Medicaid and Medicare funding to support it. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/2015/05/27/assembly-passes-universal-coverage/28046359/…
Beat cancer? Your Medicare Advantage plan might still be billing for it.
Firms mined patient records for outdated, irrelevant conditions to increase profits, Justice Department contends
…Falkenburg did not respond to a phone message requesting comment. A Palo Alto Medical auditor reported in internal correspondence that another physician, Thomas Deetz, complained that “pre-populating diagnoses into his…
What role will insurance companies play in the "public option"?
…“option.” Seduced by the “option” campaign’s misinformation These comments are mistaken. Their authors have been seduced by the “option” campaign’s constant comparison of the “option” to Medicare. The comparison to…
The case for universal pharmacare in Canada: New report shows Canada could save $10.7 billion with single payer national health insurance for pharmaceuticals
…way to control costs through efficient pharmaco-economic assessment of new drugs and by developing bargaining power when dealing with powerful transnational drug companies. The complexity of these various aspects of…
New patient? What insurance do you have?
…the visit was restricted to $75 or less. http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1857092 This study reveals the success rates in obtaining a primary care appointment as a new patient by non-elderly adults, prior to…
New patient? What insurance do you have?
…the visit was restricted to $75 or less. http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1857092 **** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD This study reveals the success rates in obtaining a primary care appointment as a new…
What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that U.S. health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
…the costs down to consumers.) Our freedom of choice of insurer, Reinhardt argued, not only comes at the expense of freedom of choice of doctor (the opposite choice made by…