…changing the plan design, Burd said. But even if the company manages to keep spending flat, Burd noted, Safeway will remain ahead of the trend. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/11/BUG02O20R81.DTL And… Mr. Burd Goes…
Steve Burd's magic elixir
How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs: Market-based solutions can reduce the national health-care bill by 40%
…receive premium discounts off a “base level” premium for each test they pass. Data is collected by outside parties and not shared with company management. If they pass all four…
Why does Medicaid increase patients’ use of Emergency Departments?
…Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion were wise to do so http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/01/02/new-oregon-data-expanding-medicaid-increases-usage-of-emergency-rooms-undermining-central-rationale-for-obamacare/ National Study of Health Insurance Type and Reasons for Emergency Department Use By Roberta Capp MD, MHS, Sean P. Rooks BA,…
Why does Medicaid increase patients’ use of Emergency Departments?
…Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion were wise to do so http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/01/02/new-oregon-data-exp… National Study of Health Insurance Type and Reasons for Emergency Department Use By Roberta Capp MD, MHS, Sean P. Rooks BA,…
Does the Private Health Care Marketplace Provide Efficiency and Value?
Conservatives have long held that U. S. health care should be based on the “free market,” that the role of government should be minimal, and that a deregulated marketplace can…
‘Value Transformation’ and health care reform
…Health Care Financing System. Health Affairs 2011; 30:1232-1241. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/7/1232.full?sid=56ce15de-c1b1-4dcf-8ffb-a7b3a09871b6 4. Stephen Kemble. Why Competition Among Health Plans Can’t Help Us. OpEd News, November 17, 2011. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Competition-Among-Heal-by-Stephen-Kemble-111117-858.html 5. Jim Kronenberg. A…
Folding Medicare into Vermont's single payer system
…fee-for-service or Medicare Advantage payment methodologies, and/or risk sharing arrangements that are not currently permitted under Medicare statute. https://www.cms.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/downloads/FESC_Medicare_Waiver_Demo.pdf For more about Medicare waivers: Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1395b-1.html And… Converting…
Folding Medicare into Vermont’s single payer system
…fee-for-service or Medicare Advantage payment methodologies, and/or risk sharing arrangements that are not currently permitted under Medicare statute. https://www.cms.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/downloads/FESC_Medicare_Waiver_Demo.pdf For more about Medicare waivers: Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1395b-1.html And… Converting…
Shocking growth of premiums – in a single interactive visualization
…of middle incomes! A static slide of this change, showing the U.S. side by side in 2003 and 2010, can be downloaded at this link (slide number 2): http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2011/Nov/State%20Trends/PDF_Schoen_state_trends_premiums_deductibles_2003_2010_exhibits.pdf INCREASE…
Medpac struggles to define “medical home”
…a real cost disadvantage…. [pp. 251-253] http://www.medpac.gov/transcripts/0314MedPAC_transcript.pdf Comment: By Kip Sullivan, JD If you endorse a vague plan based on conventional wisdom rather than evidence and it doesn’t work, how…
Uwe Reinhardt describes single payer, and we respond
Health Care Payers Push Back Against Costs
…and state and federal legislators, always to keep the payment side of our health system fragmented and relatively weak vis à vis the supply side of health care. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/health-care-payers-push-back-against-costs/ Comments…
Uwe Reinhardt describes single payer, and we respond
…Public Health http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/health-care-payers-push-back-against-costs/?comments#permid=24 And… Uwe Reinhardt Princeton, NJ The advantages of a single-payer system are: 1. They are simple and easily understood by all concerned. 2. They foster egalitarian health…
