…Future [CAF]. Hickey took … Jacob Hacker’s idea for “a new public insurance pool modeled after Medicare” and went around to the community of single-payer advocates, making the case that…
Got cancer? Don’t buy a plan in our network.
…company said. “Our provider networks reflect this.” http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_OVERHAUL_TOP_CANCER_CENTERS Members of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (http://www.nccn.org/members/network.asp) **** 2015 Letter to Issuers in the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces CMS, March 14, 2014 Section…
Canada’s health care system and the sustainability paradox
…Building on values: the future of health care in Canada — final report. Saskatoon: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada; 2002. Available: www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/pdf/romanow/pdfs/HCC_Final_Report.pdf (accessed 2007 Mar 28)….
The Long and Unfinished Struggle: Single Payer Health Care in Vermont
…freelance writer who lives in Montpelier, Vermont, and who has been involved in the state’s health care reform efforts. This article also appeared at CommonDreams on Aug. 11, 2013: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/11-1…
“42,000 Canadians come to the United States for care” – Really?
…2011 Estimated number of patients receiving treatment outside Canada, 2011: 46,159 http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/articles/leaving-canada-for-medical-care-2011-ff0712.pdf Leaving Canada for Medical Care 2012 Estimated number of patients receiving treatment outside Canada, 2012: 42,173 http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/articles/leaving-canada-for-medical-care-2012.pdf Waiting…
McCanne on free markets in health care
First, do no harm; second, nationalize
…is out of touch with reality or a prophet in blue jeans. Link for full article: http://www.ocregister.com/news/-183873-ocprint–.html And… Health care cure is an Rx for economic ruin The Orange County…
Why choice of private plans or a ‘public option’ is bad policy
The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill
…cost reports.) Similarly, for physicians and other practitioners, the complexity involved in billing multiple payers, dealing with multiple drug formularies and referral networks, collecting co-payments and deductibles, and obtaining referrals…
What’s wrong with individual health insurance mandates?
…electorate (http://abcnews.go.com/images/pdf/935a3HealthCare.pdf), including physicians (http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20071204_Doctors_endorse_single-payer.html). As Kuttner, supporters of single payer wish our politicians and opinion leaders “got it right” this time, stopped trying to reinvent the wheel, and stood…
How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care
…usefully employed in a new single-payer system. Moreover, it seems likely that the jobs lost in health insurance companies would be offset by new jobs created through the expansion of…
Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform
…predominantly white, male, upper middle class group in which the interests of insurance companies (large and small) and other components of the medical industrial complex were well represented. Obviously, these…
Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing's Latest Uprising
…rubric of “free markets.” Both cornerstones of Tea Party Inc. — FreedomWorks and the two entities comprising Americans for Prosperity — sprang from Koch’s riches. FreedomWorks rose from the ashes…
Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing’s Latest Uprising
…of “free markets.” Both cornerstones of Tea Party Inc. — FreedomWorks and the two entities comprising Americans for Prosperity — sprang from Koch’s riches. FreedomWorks rose from the ashes of…