…we should talk about having a single payer national health care plan. The reason is quite simple. In my view, we already have one; we just don’t take advantage of…
New poll on single payer and a Medicare buy-in
…concepts to the traditional Medicare program. They can conveniently ignore the fact that the current market experiment with private Medicare Advantage plans has been unsuccessful in providing comparable benefits at…
Backgrounder on the 2015 SGR ‘doc fix’
…only way to avoid the deductible in the future will be to join a private Medicare Advantage plan. 3. Raise Medicare’s costs by driving more patients into private Medicare Advantage…
More Hispanic children covered, but do we need a public option?
…Medicare Advantage, or Medicaid. So would people have to buy two plans – the Medicare buy-in plus some sort of Medigap plan? Too expensive and administratively wasteful. If the buy-in…
The public option is back
…prevent the “unfair” competitive advantage that a government program would otherwise have over the private insurance industry. This same insurance industry influence is precisely why the co-op models authorized by…
Gerald Kominski describes the real-world public option
…Medicare Advantage and managed care Medi-Cal. Creating a public option in California may not be necessary at present, since the state currently has sufficient competition in the private insurance market,…
What do leaders of the medical-industrial complex think about reform?
…per unit cost of care. • Commercial insurance will remain the main engine of growth for providers, with Medicare Advantage the most attractive government program financially. • Medicaid and the…
Medical Debt Prevalence, Risk Factors, & Effects on Social Determinants of Health
Summary: A representative multi-year survey of US adults found medical debt in 18% of households, with higher risk for those with no insurance, high deductible private insurance, or Medicare Advantage….