…$2.8 trillion — something that cannot be said for what we have today or what we are getting under the ACA. Dr. Ana Malinow resides in Shadyside. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2014/05/04/Singular-solution/stories/201405040080#ixzz30lTqtxS7…
Make patients the priority, not profits
…medicine.” It is simply the best way to reform our deeply flawed healthcare system. Scott Goldberg is a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-letter-patients-the-priority-not-profits-20140527,0,5623032.story…
Wake-up call for reform
…good. Your story should be our early warning, and a wake-up call to restructure our health care payment and delivery system. Dr. Arthur J. Sutherland III resides in Memphis. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/may/31/letter-wake–call-reform/…
Chicago Jobs with Justice endorses H.R. 676
…Tillow, All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care–HR 676, c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO), 1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218, Louisville, KY 40217. Phone: (502) 636-1551. E-mail: nursenpo@aol.com; website: http://unionsforsinglepayer.org….
Healthcare Pay-For-Performance Folly
…rhetoric used as a smokescreen while those with money and power take us in the opposite direction. Dr. Stephen Kemble is immediate past president of the Hawaii Medical Association. http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=266376721&id=266376721…
Time to hold private Medicare Advantage plans accountable
…Harvard with a major in government. She is currently a second year medical student at University Of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine with a research focus on health policy. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/commentary-time-to-hold-private-medicare-advantage/nhB6Z/…
Support Medicare for All bill, H.R. 676
…non-profitable areas. Cancer centers and major medical centers are being left out of insurance networks. Remember, nations that consider health care a public good, not a commodity, have universal coverage…
Searching for a national child health coverage policy
…the need to ensure plan quality, including the scope of coverage, use of a pediatric medical necessity standard that emphasizes growth and development, the structure of pediatric provider networks, and…
‘Subsidies upheld, but health needs still unmet’: doctors group
…a universal health system that delivers comprehensive, equitable, compassionate and high-quality care, with free choice of provider and no financial barriers to access. Polls have repeatedly shown an improved Medicare…
Trudy Lieberman’s “Wrong Prescription?”
…provider networks (which sometimes offer so little choice that patients end up seeking out-of-network care and paying on their own). What was once good, comprehensive insurance for a sizable number…
Wendell Potter’s call for Medicare supporters to wake up
…most enthusiastically by the shareholders and executives of private insurance companies. http://www.medicareresources.org/blog/2015/07/23/priceless-safety-net-reaches-golden-anniversary/ **** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Mark Wendell Potter’s words. If we want an improved Medicare for all,…
Racial injustice still rife in health care
…doing exactly that. Hopefully, with some combination of public shaming and political mobilization, common sense will prevail and Medicaid will be expanded nationwide. But even if the ACA’s Medicaid expansion…