…and preventive services, and help physicians set up practices in inner cities and rural communities. The bill was referred to both the Assembly Health Committee and Senate Finance Committee on…
Meet the New Health Care Reform, Same as the Old Health Care Reform
…starting to talk about what comes next. Me? I’ve been thinking about what comes next for a long time. I think this bill will pass. We will get the incremental…
Consumer Reports
…cards in the belief that they are a low cost substitute for insurance. Examples: http://www.aquent.com/financial/medical_savings_card.html http://www.careentree.com/ http://www.insurancequotes4u.com/discount-medical.html http://www.addhealth.com/index.html http://www.firstchoiceinvestors.com/health.html http://www.ameriplanusa.com/about.asp And the response of the AOL legal department: http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dljunk/national.html And…
Over 100 million prescriptions written before drug safety recalls
…United States to drugs that were newly approved but later withdrawn from the market. We obtained a list of all drugs approved and subsequently withdrawn from the U.S. market due…
The New Economics of Being Young
…risen, companies have begun to consider forgoing health plans. In September, the trade journal BenefitsNews.com reported that among companies with 10 to 49 workers, the percentage of those offering insurance…
New drugs fail to align benefits, risks and costs
…them. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/07/06/serious-risks-and-few-new-benefits-from-fda-approved-drugs/ **** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Outrageously high pricing is not the only problem we face with new pharmaceutical products. We are inundated with new drugs that provide…
Over 100 million prescriptions written before drug safety recalls
…compare new drugs with existing drugs even though many turn out to be inferior. Yet with our lax rules on direct-to-consumer advertising, a demand can be created for these new…
Seniors’ Medicare Benefits Are Being Privatized Without Consent
The Biden administration is expanding a Trump scheme that is forcing hundreds of thousands of seniors onto for-profit health plans.
…thousands of seniors onto new private Medicare plans without their consent. The development represents a troubling new dimension in the fight by corporate interests to privatize Medicare, the federal health…
New provider-sponsored health plans provide lessons on the medical-industrial complex
…reasons, and others, the prospects for success by these new health plans are not strong. http://www.rwjf.org… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Arnold “Bud” Relman long ago famously warned us…
Bernie Sanders Introduces New Medicare For All Bill, Welcoming War With Insurance Industry
He’s promising more benefits — and facing more opposition.
…dysfunctional system which allows health insurance companies and drug companies to make tens of billions of dollars in profits and their CEOs to make outrageous compensation packages.” With millions of…
Sick and Wrong
How Washington is screwing up health care reform — and why it may take a revolt to fix it
…into the process. In the House, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York refused to support the bill passed by the commerce committee unless he was allowed to attach an amendment…
The Real Impact of Medicare Advantage for Beneficiaries and Medicare Funding
…Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) concluded in their March 2024 report that, upcoding and favorable selection paid MA plans $83 billion (22 percent) more than what Medicare would have paid if…