…the ill is efficient and increases the welfare of society. Thus, the new theory identifies efficiency as a new justification for adopting some form of national health insurance. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/5/194 Comment:…
"Show Me the Money": Labor and the Bottom Line of National Health Insurance
…some of its competitors pay as little as $200 per vehicle. The focus on comparing what U.S. companies pay directly for health care relative to what their foreign competitors pay…
On Being Partisan
…the New Deal, that bipartisanship began to prevail. The history of the last few decades has basically been the story of the New Deal in reverse. Income inequality has returned…
Europe leads in pharmaceutical research
Global Drug Discovery: Europe Is Ahead
…trials would also reduce cost and risk for pharmaceutical companies and increase competition from smaller firms by lowering the high cost barrier that company-funded trials pose. These are some ways…
NUPGE Report Card on the Romanow Report
…recommends that a 6th principle of “accountability” be added to the Canada Health Act. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Mike Luffat Phone: 613-228-9800 Fax: 613-228-9801 Email: mluff@nupge.ca Visit: www.nupge.ca www.savemedicare.com www.youthformedicare.ca…
Would single payer fix this physician’s problems?
…especially those with much more complicated issues than mine. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/upshot/trapped-in-the-system-a-sick-doctors-story.html *** Answers to your questions about “Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s Story” By Aaron Carroll The Incidental Economist,…
Health Care Special Issue: Creative Destruction
The best case against universal health care.
…as cervical cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and two common forms of leukemia–the U.S. survival rate, although good, lags behind at least some other countries. You may also have heard critics complain…
Health Affairs promotes "regulatory neutrality" for AHIP
Regulatory Neutrality Is Essential To Establishing A Level Playing Field For Accountable Care Organizations
…the Institute for Health Systems Solutions (IHSS), which has been established to create a hub for new research, new analysis, and a new opportunity for the exchange of views around…
Single-payer health reform
…’11). Dr. Mary O’Brien will speak. Her new book “10 Excellent Reasons for National Healthcare,” co-edited with Dr. Martha Livingston, has just been released. . . . The New York…
Saving on health care at the cost of people's health
Health care spending in the U.S. has slowed because fewer people can afford health services
…And this will grow under the ACA due to the costs of the new exchanges, the new regulations for insurers that must be enforced and the new tax penalty that…
New America Foundation implicitly endorses single payer
Social Contract Budgeting: Prescriptions from Economics and History
…budgets from raising taxes to cover insurance, but the disadvantage of perpetuating, and still subsidizing, a costly private insurance industry. http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Lindert_Peter_NAF_SocialContractBudgeting_2012.pdf And… New America Foundation About New America The New…
SiCKO Cure Road Show Rolls into New Orleans, Joins Voices Calling for Charity Hospital Reopening
By Donna Smith Progressive Democrats of America, Colorado member November 27, 2007, New Orleans, LA The SiCKO Cure Road Show rolled into New Orleans on Saturday, and the road show…