…help prepare them to pay them. Make It Available Researchers and policymakers have questioned the limited hospital and physician networks in the ACA health insurance marketplaces, as these networks provide…
Important links to Mayes and Berenson's "Medicare Prospective Payment"
…summary of the book, and the Conclusion, “How Medicare Does and Should Shape U.S. Health Care.” They are available at the following links: Table of Contents: http://www.richmond.edu/~bmayes/pdf/Mayes_Berenson_Title_Page.pdf Introduction: http://www.richmond.edu/~bmayes/Introduction.pdf Conclusion:…
#BlackLivesMatter: Physicians Must Stand for Racial Justice
…gender discrimination in US health care: a shadow report for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 2014. http://www.reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/CERD_Shadow_US.pdf. Accessed July 24, 2015. Association of American Medical Colleges….
What Do MoveOn Members Think About Health Care? Who Knows? A Reply to MoveOn’s Eli Pariser
…themselves). In less than 48 hours, nearly 3,000 people have signed the Petition and, as the Petition spreads virally, new signatures keep coming in at the rate of 50-100 per…
Himmelstein & Woolhandler, and Hellander respond to The Nation’s Holland on single payer
…few people would complain about being freed from insurers’ narrow provider networks; not one of the Medicare Advantage plans, without out-of-pocket benefits, covers care at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering…
Single payer versus free market for health care reform
…competitive health-care market will see increases in quality or convenience at lower prices. The term “single-payer” is a euphemism for monopoly. A monopoly requires legal barriers against new competition entering…
Single payer versus free market for health care reform
…competitive health-care market will see increases in quality or convenience at lower prices. The term “single-payer” is a euphemism for monopoly. A monopoly requires legal barriers against new competition entering…
Capretta and Moffit – “How to Replace Obamacare”
…insurance plans (the so-called “individual mandate”). A replacement program for Obamacare should come at the problem from the opposite direction, with government forsaking coercion and instead extending a new commitment…
Capretta and Moffit – "How to Replace Obamacare"
How to Replace Obamacare
…“individual mandate”). A replacement program for Obamacare should come at the problem from the opposite direction, with government forsaking coercion and instead extending a new commitment to the American people:…
Capretta and Moffit – "How to Replace Obamacare"
…insurance plans (the so-called “individual mandate”). A replacement program for Obamacare should come at the problem from the opposite direction, with government forsaking coercion and instead extending a new commitment…
Tales of a Family Doc…..a year later
…of the new patients we see explain their search for a new doctor (no small task in a community where primary care providers are retiring in far greater numbers than…
In Dire Health
…and more medical costs are being shifted to Medicare beneficiaries. Provisions in the Affordable Care Act authorize trials of new forms of payment and new organizations of physicians and hospitals…