Economists and health professionals to testify at congressional briefing Thursday to sound alarm on Deficit Commission proposals to weaken or gut Medicare program FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 21, 2010 Contact:…
SiCKO Stars to Reunite After 5 Years with Reminder Healthcare System Still Sick…as Court Decision Looms
…them today at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvuqrr6ggi8 In the reunion event, Moore will be on stage with Smith and Cervantes. Also there will be other stars of the film, including another…
No gold medal coverage for our athletes, Aurora victims, others
…cover everyone. Whether you are a high profile shooting victims, Olympic athletes, anyone else, no one in this country should have to worry about their health security ever again. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/27/1114343/-Gold-medal-coverage-for-our-athletes-Not-for-them-or-Aurora-victims-or-so-many-others…
Health care reform needs a do-over
…better system. Dr. Arnold Relman is professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-07-11/health-care-single-payer/56135206/1…
Employers considering defined contribution for health care
With health care law upheld, employers weigh shift to defined contribution insurance plan
…the 2010 health care overhaul passed constitutional muster. But with the court’s decision last week to uphold most of the law, companies may pursue a historic change. Many employers are…
Concentration of health care spending
The Concentration of Health Care Spending
…the risk posed by high spenders are required. http://www.nihcm.org/images/stories/DataBrief3_Final.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD The healthier half of our population accounts for only 3 percent of health care spending, whereas…
Every person deserves access to health care
…benefits or by denying care altogether. None allow private insurance companies to place profit over coverage. Yet, all of them provide better care to more people for less money than…
Republicans join Democrats in supporting Medicare as a defined benefit program
Republicans, like Democrats, opposed to cutting Medicare benefits, wary of privatization
…deficit (85 percent oppose), unless those cuts are targeted only at the rich, in which case two in three would be supportive. http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8342-F.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD A…
Romney supports Medicare Advantage overpayments
Patients Would Pay More if Romney Restores Medicare Savings, Analysts Say
…and co-pays and hand it over to private insurance companies and other providers in the Medicare system.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/us/politics/costs-seen-in-romneys-medicare-savings-plan.html?pagewanted=all Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Why would Mitt Romney support overpayments to…
After court ruling, problems remain
…U.S. is now an outlier compared to other industrialized nations by not providing guaranteed health security to all its citizens and legal residents. These nations spend half as much per…
Bernie Sanders, Nurses: We Still Need ‘Medicare for All’
…for All speak a profound truth when they say, “We ultimately need to do better … the real solution to America’s health care crisis is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.” http://www.thenation.com/blog/168649/bernie-sanders-nurses-we-still-need-medicare-all…
Affordable Care Act: good news or bad?
…Mad As Hell Doctors, both advocates for single-payer health care, and of Health Care for All Oregon, an umbrella organization advocating for publicly funded universal care for all Oregonians. http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/07/affordable_care_act_is_bad_new.html…