…and Equality in Health,” featuring new data and analysis by prominent U.S. health researchers, as well as a special commentary by Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in which he calls for…
Enhancing the benefits of traditional Medicare
Medicare Benefit Redesign: Enhancing Affordability for Beneficiaries While Promoting Choice and Competition
…can access the care they need, it also would simplify coverage choices and remove waste from the health system. https://www.commonwealthfund.org… Issue Brief (PDF): https://www.commonwealthfund.org… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D….
Senate Finance report on financing health care reform
Baucus, Grassley Release Policy Options for Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform United States Senate Committee on Finance News Release May 18, 2009 The options released today are the third and…
Senate Finance report on financing health care reform
Baucus, Grassley Release Policy Options for Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform
…pages): http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/042809%20Health%20Care%20Description%20of%20Policy%20Option.pdf Expanding Health Care Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans (63 pages): http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/051109%20Health%20Care%20Description%20of%20Policy%20Options.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Tomorrow the members of the Senate Finance Committee…
Locked out of trading in your Medicare Advantage plan for a Medigap plan
Medicare Advantage Enrollees Discover Dirty Little Secret: Getting out is a lot harder than getting in
…in basic Medicare, may cost more in monthly premiums up front, but once one is enrolled, premiums are set solely through “community rating” and beneficiaries’ age. New-onset health issues do…
America’s Health Care System Kills People—But It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
…financial panic often compounds a health emergency, Australia’s universal Medicare system, which provides free health insurance for every citizen through a general tax and an additional levy on high-income earners,…
Free market is a disaster for sick Americans
By Phil Kadner Chicago Sun-Times, May 9, 2017 Will someone please tell me what evidence exists that a free market benefits consumers in this country when it comes to health…
Left behind: Stories from Obamacare’s 31 million uninsured
…will be newly insured as of Jan. 1, many of the nation’s 1,000 free clinics, which cater to the uninsured and are financed mostly by private donations, are redoubling efforts…
Gaining freedom by escaping the unfreedom of the workplace
A rebranding of 'freedom'?
…how freedom requires emancipation both from the economy and within the economy, and why that emancipation requires mass struggle. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu… Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. In simplified terms, “Freedom Now,”…
Republicans can take the lead on health care
…for the party of Lincoln to emancipate our health care from the free market way of thinking. Dr. James Fieseher is a primary care physician and lives in Dover. http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/politicalmonitor/15611672-95/my-turn-republicans-can-take-the-lead-on-health-care…
Krugman on free markets for health insurance
Health Economics 101 By Paul Krugman The New York Times November 14, 2005 Several readers have asked me a good question: we rely on free markets to deliver most goods…
Reinhardt and McCanne on Goodman’s claim that free health care causes disparities
…or sexual preferences and not pay a price for doing so. For the entire article: http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-are-there-disparities-in-health-care-because-its-free/ Comments on the Goodman blog: Don McCanne says: There are a great number of…