…maximize their bottom lines. The complexity of insurance plans — with variable benefits, deductibles, co-pays, and restricted provider networks — requires an army of bureaucrats and money-changers to collect the…
More Americans gain health coverage, but many can’t afford to use it: doctors group
…woes. The stakes are too high. We need to move beyond the administratively wasteful, complex and inadequate ACA to a more fundamental, comprehensive single-payer national health program for all.” Physicians…
We Represent the Future
…will transform health care, mandating a social right to equitable care, free at point of use. Everyone in the nation will enjoy comprehensive benefits without provider networks, co-pays, or deductibles….
Physicians for Single Payer
…won’t solve all our problems. But it is far better than the patchwork system we have now with private health insurance companies that look at health care as a commodity…
A California lesson on eliminating the individual mandate penalty
California’s Health Coverage Gains to Erode Without Further State Action
…in 2023, compared to the projected number if the ACA penalty had been maintained. The most substantial enrollment changes will occur in the individual market, where we project enrollment will…
AHIP’s Ignagni rejects mandate for comprehensive benefits
…choices. I just… human nature suggests that people like that. They’re in control if they have more choices. http://www.c-span.org/video/?318396-1/newsmakers-karen-ignagnino Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. One of the more important goals…
Oncologists Call for Single-Payer System
…not want to see something like socialized insurance come along.” Nirvana or not, the single-payer approach is coming, Drasga continued. Vermont has set the process in motion by starting implementation…
Progressive deterioration in health plans offered by major employers
…strategies. http://www.towerswatson.com/en-US/Press/2014/03/us-employers-experiencing-smallest-increases-in-health-care-costs-in-15-years Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. The most important reason that a more effective model of social insurance, such as single payer, was rejected in favor of a fragmented…
Can’t hold tongues on Obama’s health law
…some clinics — and was dropped from two big insurers’ networks because of its high costs) and from standardized and computerized billing. Computer firms have been promising paperwork savings for…
Can Overuse of Health Care Be Managed By Giving Consumers More Choice And Responsibility?
…costs but add financial barriers that lead many patients to delay or forgo care altogether. The 2003 Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey led Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis to…
Let’s adopt consumer-driven plans and watch the sick suffer!
…health benefits marketplace. http://www.healthaffairs.org/WebExclusives/Gabel_Web_Excl_112002.htm Comment: The very design of consumer-driven products has two precise goals: shift the costs of health care from the purchasers of the plans to the patients,…
Blue Cross’ RightPlan is terribly wrong
…this point.” http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/medical/story/7688509p-8628347c.html Comment: The crisis in affordability of health care is of great concern to nearly all Americans. The most visible manifestation of this crisis for the average, relatively…