…presented with the facts in an unemotional way, to do the right thing,” Michie said. “I hope it doesn’t take a financial collapse for us to figure it out.” http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52826507-78/health-jarvis-care-utah.html.csp…
GOP clueless about plight of the uninsured
…country’s health-care problem. That must come eventually in the form of a tax-funded, federally guaranteed, privately delivered program, an expanded, improved, cost-effective Medicare for all. Christopher Stack, M.D. Indianapolis http://www.indystar.com/article/20101001/OPINION01/10010327/GOP-clueless-about-plight-of-the-uninsured…
The fundamental flaw with the IOM recommendation on benefits
Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Coverage and Costs (2011)
…sentence above stands out. By predefining a specific cost target and then defining a benefit package to fit those costs, the committee explicitly has recommended that the new standard for…
Rampant underinsurance in children
Underinsurance among Children in the United States
By Michael D. Kogan, Ph.D., Paul W. Newacheck, Dr.P.H., Stephen J. Blumberg, Ph.D., Reem M. Ghandour, Dr.P.H., Gopal K. Singh, Ph.D., Bonnie B. Strickland, Ph.D., and Peter C. van Dyck,…
Health care reform: the issue is equity
By Gabriel Edwards The Pulse (OHSU Student Newsletter), Fall 2012 edition The process of getting through medical school is fraught with uncertainty. What kind of residency will I apply to?…
Insurers will continue to skirt regulations
Insurers Seek Right Balance of Risk, Reward
…preparation for the health law’s new marketplaces. Customers not only bring revenue in the form of the premiums they pay. They also come with costs, since the insurer will be…
Markets impact community rating
Geography affects premiums on California health insurance exchange
…are a number of large hospital systems that dominate the Northern California market, whereas there are many smaller hospitals and hospital systems in Southern California that compete,” Epstein said. http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/04/5471469/geography-affects-premiums-on.html…
Spend money on universal care not costly exchange
…have 17 companies competing for their business with more than 800 different plan variations offered through the state’s new health exchange and on the open market. Yet as more details…
Some unions protest Obamacare’s impact on multiemployer health plans
…co-pays and no deductibles. Even dental care and long-term care are covered. Private for-profit health insurance companies and the massive waste they cause would be removed. Unions would free their…
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt
…needs are met. The concept of human rights runs counter to the incentive of the market, which is to make everything a commodity. When human needs are treated as commodities,…
Only 2% of individual plans meet "essential health benefit" requirements
Almost No Existing Health Plans Meet New ACA Essential Health Benefit Standards
…ACA actuarial value requirements on the maximum out-of-pocket costs that can be charged to beneficiaries http://www.healthpocket.com/healthcare-resources/few-existing-health-plans-meet-new-aca-essential-health-benefit-standards#.UTnodq4tb3V Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. One of the problems that needed to be addressed…
It's Time for Single-Payer
…the Washtenaw County (Mich.) Medical Society, and a member of Physicians for a National Health Program. ACEP News is a publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians. http://www.acepnews.com/index.php?id=495&cHash=071010 &tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1564…