…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…
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….
Medicare Law Prompts a Rush for Lobbyists
…subsidiary of the Van Scoyoc Companies, said, “It’s become so sophisticated that, in preparation for a critical vote, a big health care or pharmaceutical company will hire a different firm…
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…
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…
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…
Implementing Health Insurance Reform: New Medical Loss Ratio Information for Policymakers and Consumers
…2009, the Senate Commerce Committee has been investigating how commercial insurance companies spend the billions of dollars of premiums that American consumers pay them every year for health care coverage….
Waiting For The Health Reform We Really Need
…economic incentives in the medical market are attracting the great majority of physicians into specialty practice, and these incentives, combined with the continued introduction of new and more expensive technology,…
Carrots for Doctors
…to control costs. But if you look hard enough at why this common-sense approach doesn’t deliver, you find some clues to what might. The New York plan would give hospitals…
The Obama administration's confidence game on administrative savings
Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer: Our Broken Health Insurance System
…coverage because of the new subsidies to be provided and the individual mandate to be imposed. New Market Rules Would Reduce Administrative Costs Compared with plans that would be available…
Would Medicare for All Be the Most Beneficial Health Care System for Family Physicians and Patients?
Yes: Improved Medicare for All Would Rescue an American Health Care System in Crisis
…Improved Medicare for All. Dr. Ed Weisbart chairs the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. He receives no financial compensation for this role. https://www.aafp.org… References Kiertzner J….
Record Level of Americans Not Insured on Health
…and Vermont were also at the low end, with 9.9 percent. The uninsured rate was 15.5 percent in New York, 13.7 percent in New Jersey and 10.4 percent in Connecticut….