New York State Department of Insurance Choices Available for Individual Coverage Under New York State Insurance Law, New Yorkers purchasing health insurance on their own can choose either an HMO…
Poison pill
…which is simultaneously driven by ideological principles that celebrate free competition and the interests of powerful industries that hope to avoid it at all costs. Private insurers and drug companies…
Doctors Without Borders: Why you can't trust medical journals anymore.
…biotech companies, owns their stocks, and is a member of several speakers’ bureaus, delivering talks—for a fee—to other physicians on behalf of the companies’ products. But it was just three…
President Trump’s executive order: ‘Protecting Medicare from Socialist Destruction’
Trump Expected to Call for Expansion of Private Medicare Advantage Program
…Democratic health care proposals for expanding coverage. https://www.nytimes.com… Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Sorry. Today’s message was to have been on President Trump’s executive order on “Protecting Medicare from Socialist…
Health Affairs on ACA at 10: A celebration of cruel mediocrity
The Affordable Care Act Turns 10
…risk instead of avoiding it, minimum standards for coverage adequacy, income-related subsidies, managed competition through health insurance Marketplaces, and new programs to promote insurer competition. However, in the wake of…
Briefing on single payer national health insurance, April 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.
…go back into teaching our children. Thank you. David L Rabin MD, MPH, Professor of Community Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrbqXZadUjg (starting at 2:50 min), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LSaAN02dPo I am pleased…
Doctors aren't accepting new patients with private insurance either
…physicians accepted new patients by insurance type and year. What did they find? The overall acceptance rate of new patients was pretty static from 2005-2008, going from 94.2% to 95.3%. The percentage…
Universal health care would be a boon to the free market
…residents of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. New Jersey was of particular interest because in 1993 it established a program that guaranteed individuals access to renewable health insurance, with a community…
It Is Time to Liberate Hospitals from Profit-Centered Care
…abuse claims. But the faltering moral compass of non-profit and even public hospital leaders has an even greater impact because they control 80% of community hospitals, and almost all academic…
10,000 signatures for universal health care
…NYC, Hunger Action Network of New York State, Physicians for a National Health Program (New York Metro chapter), Single Payer New York, and Statewide Senior Action. “These signatures are a…
INTERVIEW: Dr. Andy Coates
Selling out health care reform
…Commerce Committee an amendment to substitute the text of HR 676 for the House bill. The leadership needed to get the main bill out of committee that day, the day…
Coalition seeks statewide insurance plan
…to buy additional commercial insurance. Bullington said the experience of Tennessee, which expanded its Medicaid program to encom*]}*pass adults without health insurance, and the problems New Mexico has affording its…