…download The Urban Institute 2019 learn more “Yes, We Can Have Improved Medicare for All” download Hopbrook Institute 2019 learn more “National Health Spending Estimates Under Medicare for All” download…
Questions and Answers about benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
…http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/housesenatebill_final.pdf British Medical Journal, March 30, 2010 Obama’s reform: no cure for what ails us: By David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.c1778?ijkey=qLFfFBwLmfvN8vo&keytype=ref Congressional Research Service http://bingaman.senate.gov/policy/crs_privhins.pdf Note: Before…
Doctors protest exclusion of single-payer at Senate Finance Committee
…Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action, speaks at hearing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5vhTtxad30 Margaret Flowers, MD & Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOShsL4UJo Carol Paris, MD, PNHP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdIUcrVxGwA Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nl32aAh7M…
Testimony Of Wendell Potter and Dr. Linda Peeno
Between You and Your Doctor: the Private Health Insurance Bureaucracy
…the same. Companies have also developed systems that will identify the physicians most compliant with their rules and financial goals. One company would “gold card” its most compliant physicians, providing…
Dr. Quentin Young – selected obituaries, stories
…American medicine. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/quentin-young-crusading-progressive-doctor-who-cared-mlk-dies-n533966 **** Dr. Quentin Young, longtime health advocate, dies at 92 By Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press, March 8, 2016 CHICAGO (AP) — Dr. Quentin Young, a…
Half of U.S. health care payments to be made through APMs
Learning & Action Network (LAN)
…value-based care strategies. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com…l PwC Health Research Institute Spotlight; EHRs in the New Health Economy: Essential but insufficient https://www.pwc.com… *** Clarity on 2017 MIPS: 4 things physicians must do to…
Data Update – Spring 2014 newsletter
UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED
…for their combined 32,000 employees” (Regional News, Northeast, Modern Healthcare, 9/23/13). In Idaho, the Federal Trade Commission is suing to reverse the purchase of the state’s largest multispecialty physician group,…
Canada’s Dr. Danielle Martin educates Sen. Richard Burr on single payer
…a buffoon”: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/canadian_doctor_makes_anti_obamacare_senator_look_like_a_buffoon/ Toronto Star: “Toronto doctor smacks down U.S. senators’ myths about Canadian health care”: http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2014/03/13/toronto_doctor_smacks_down_us_senators_myths_about_canadian_health_care.html Canada.com: “Watch: Canadian doctor schools American senator on health care”: http://o.canada.com/health/danielle-martin-richard-burr-health-care-410599/ Huffington Post…
The New Zealand Way: Another Approach to Health Care
After 28 years as a primary care physician in the U.S., Dr. Ken Fabert traveled to New Zealand to see what patients and doctors think of their single-payer system
…a roving clinician in New Zealand to find out more about how their single-payer health care system works. For more of Ken Fabert’s blogs from New Zealand, click here. http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/ken-fabert/the-new-zealand-way-another-approach-to-health-care?icl=email_wkly20100409&ica=tnFabert…
Respond to the NYT on insurers further limiting choice of health care
Insurers Push Plans That Limit Choice of Doctor
…Cigna, the UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint are all trying out plans with limited networks. The size of these networks is typically much smaller than traditional plans. In New York, for…
Respond to the NYT on insurers further limiting choice of health care
…if they are outside the new networks. That could come as a surprise to many who remember the repeated assurances from President Obama and other officials that consumers would retain…
Canada’s Dr. Danielle Martin educates Sen. Richard Burr on single payer
…care”:http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/features/2014/03/12/canadian-doctor-schools-us-senator-on-public-health-care/ MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show (3/14/14, Ari Melber, guest host):http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show The Maddow Blog: “Martin 1, Burr 0″: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/martin-1-burr-0#break Salon: “Canadian doctor makes anti-Obamacare senator look like a buffoon”:http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/canadian_doctor_makes_anti_obamacare_senator_look_like_a_buffoon/ Toronto…