Testimony of the New York Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program Hearing of the New York State Assembly Committee on Health Prescription Drug Prices in New York State,…
Health Insurance Headlines of the Single Payer Future
…fraught. Contracts for in-network care are ending without a new deal, leaving patients suddenly with out-of-network bills or scrambling to find new in-network providers. Single Payer: Networks? Congressional Doctors Lead…
Tory plans for NHS privatization revealed
…NHS institutions. At the same time, private sector and insurance friendly “new models of care” are being imposed in community settings, further undermining NHS hospitals. The ultimate intended outcomes of…
Recoverable administrative waste is much greater than most realize
…Steffie Woolhandler New York, Nov. 14, 2011 The writer, an internist, is a professor of public health at the City University of New York. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/opinion/cutting-health-costs-by-reducing-the-bureaucracy.html?ref=opinion NEJM – Costs of Health…
U.S. Health Plan Includes One With Catholic Tenets
By Milt Freudenheim The New York Times September 25, 2004 The Bush administration has broken new ground in its “faith-based” initiative, this time by offering federal employees a Catholic health…
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Tory plans for NHS privatization revealed
…NHS institutions. At the same time, private sector and insurance friendly “new models of care” are being imposed in community settings, further undermining NHS hospitals. The ultimate intended outcomes of…
Trump’s plan won’t lower prescription drug prices. Ours would.
The White House is pushing half-measures. We need more.
…and set up a public program parallel to compete with the private firms in developing and testing new drugs, and keep those publicly developed drugs outside the patent system, as…
Inequality Set in Concrete
Physical Resources Available for Care at Hospitals Serving People of Color and Other U.S. Hospitals
…new asset acquisition may vary greatly from year-to-year, we analyzed new asset purchases and donations over the five-year period 2013-2017 to provide a more stable assessment of new capital acquisition….
Oliver Wyman’s four economic scenarios for health care in 2030
Healthcare 2030: Four Economic Scenarios
…to create strategic control and value will be best positioned. 2030, here we come. https://www.mmc.com… Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Predicting the status of health care a decade from now…
Health care reform driven by health plans, not physicians
…the performance of the limited number of doctors who have invested in the computerization and staffing required for success under new payment models. We urgently need a dialogue between policy…
House Democrats See ‘Medicare For All’ As The Answer To Trumpcare
…of insurance options in these markets has begun to dwindle because for-profit companies find it too costly to cover new enrollees, who tend to be sicker than the general population….
