…care they need without worrying about the cost. https://www.politico.com… Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act: https://www.sanders.senate.gov… Summary of Emergency Guarantee Act: https://www.sanders.senate.gov… Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. One of the painful…
Sit-in today at Aetna office in New York to demand an end to insurance company abuse
…# # For more information: Mobilization for Health Care www.MobilizeForHealthCare.org Health Care NOW!, www.healthcare-now.org Prosperity Agenda, www.ProsperityAgenda,US Center for Working Poor, http://centerfortheworkingpoor.org Private Health Insurance Must Go coalition, www.phimg.org http://www.youtube.com/mobilize4healthcare…
The reinvention of failure
…diverted from NHS budgets to create a new, expanding private sector, which will now be free to poach staff from NHS hospitals. Hewitt’s first announcement in her new job was…
Himmelstein responds to Gawande on single payer
…to be,” Himmelstein said. Mokhiber: Et Tu, Atul?: Test-Case for a Single-Payer Hypothesis http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/10-1 Gawande: Getting There from Here: How should Obama reform health care? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_gawande qotd: Gawande’s pseudo-pragmatism https://pnhp.org/news/2009/january/gawandes_pseudopra.php…
CMS requirements for medical suppliers – a bureaucratic boondoggle?
Change in law costs medical supply firms
…help us do things better,” he said. http://www.kansas.com/business/health-care/story/655455.html Comment: By Don McCanne, MD A frequent complaint about government financing of health care is that government bureaucrats place an excessive administrative…
Using technology better
…of new drugs, devices, and biotechnology products. As much as we would like new tools, though, Skinner and colleagues show that we haven’t mastered the tools that we already possess….
Lack of health insurance and U.S. mortality
…out of a new big-picture analysis of existing research that explores the relationship between insurance coverage and mortality. Continue reading… As lawmakers debate GOP healthcare bill, new study finds stripping…
The Obama administration’s confidence game on administrative savings
…the new market rules: • The influx of new enrollees in response to the individual mandate and new subsidies—combined with the creation of new insurance exchanges—would create larger purchasing pools…
New York Times explains single payer Medicare for All, but lacks boldness
How Much Will Americans Sacrifice for Good Health Care?
…and trade-offs ahead. https://www.nytimes.com… Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. If you read this New York Times editorial carefully and sort out the facts, the editors have made a very solid…
More than 100 House Democrats to unveil ‘battle-ready’ Medicare-for-all plan as 2020 election looms
…care, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. The bill has 106 co-sponsors but essentially no chance of passing the House or Republican-controlled Senate this term. It comes amid a…
Complexities and deficiencies of the temporary health system tweaks
By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff The New York Times, March 22, 2021 The new stimulus bill made tens of millions of Americans eligible for new health insurance subsidies. But…
Direct Contracting Entities: The Latest Scam to Privatize Medicare
…drafted, the key legislator was the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, whose committee took the lead in drafting the legislation. As Baucus himself repeatedly boasted, the…