…distribution of new drugs that are demonstrably better for patients than the old ones. http://www.bmj.com… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. In this article, Donald Light and Arthur Caplan help…
Cognitive dissonance in U.S. health care
…“New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program,” the state passed legislation requiring that insurers sell policies to everyone in a given community at the same price. After the law was passed…
Politics, not policy, is holding back the New York Health Act
What Happened to New York’s Plans for Single-Payer Health Care?
By Raina Lipsitz The Nation, May 2, 2019 The Albany machine is working to torpedo the New York Health Act—again. New York’s Democratic voters sent a new class of true-blue…
Politics, not policy, is holding back the New York Health Act
What Happened to New York’s Plans for Single-Payer Health Care?
The Albany machine is working to torpedo the New York Health Act—again. By Raina Lipsitz The Nation, May 2, 2019 New York’s Democratic voters sent a new class of true-blue…
Low Quality HMOs Hide Performance Data from Public, Says Journal of the American Medical Association Study
…Prudential HealthCare – New York, New Jersey, Conn. Prudential HealthCare – New York, New Jersey, Conn. Prudential HealthCare – North Texas Prudential HealthCare – North Texas Prudential HealthCare – Northern…
Single-payer news on Vermont, new research, insurer greed
…passed out of the Senate Health Committee in a 5-3 vote. PNHP activists helped mobilize support for its passage out of committee. 2. WellPoint confronted on greed. When Karen Green…
VA Care: Still the Best Care Anywhere?
…advanced polytrauma units, in Palo Alto and Minneapolis, there was hardly a patient to be found. But at the same time there is a comparatively small countertrend that results from…
Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO) is an irreparably flawed concept
…Area Council, an employer-backed group. “That’s the problem that we need to fix. If we focus on narrowness we will be focusing on the wrong thing,” Weinberg added. http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-anthem-narrow-networks-lawsuit-20140709-story.html ****…
Narrow networks reduce specialized care for the sickest patients
…get sick in the coming year. If you are already ill or worry that you may become ill, narrow networks are not good. Don’t lie to us… http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/upshot/narrow-health-networks-maybe-theyre-not-so-bad.html?rref=upshot&abt=0002&abg=1 **** Further…
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_CEN… 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…
Health navigators for everyone
…free-standing company and have that person help employees figure things out. Along with price sensitivity has to come the support. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/August/13/More-Employers-Limit-Health-Plan-Networks-But-Seek-To-Preserve-Quality.aspx **** Equity Healthcare (a subsidiary of Blackstone) Equity Healthcare…
America's Affordable Health Choices Act Implementation Timeline
Summary of the provisions of the House bill and when they go into effect (pre-amendments)
Coverage expansions don’t start until 2013 Prepared by the Committees on Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce, and Education & Labor October 29, 2009 http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM41_hcr_timeline.pdf 2010 INSURANCE MARKET REFORMS ENDS…