…https://www.rand.org… Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay By Reed Abelson The New York Times, May 9, 2019 Across the nation, hospitals treating patients with private…
The Senate’s ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017’
…to a vote after 20 hours of debate. https://www.nytimes.com… H.R. 1628 – “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017”: https://www.budget.senate.gov… Senate Budget Committee overview of H.R. 1628 (highly deceptive rhetoric): https://www.budget.senate.gov/bettercare…
More Tools for Single Payer Advocates
Action Alert from Health-Justice.Org
New Tools and Continuing Campaigns Stuff You Can Do. Free. Easy. Free and Easy. NOW New Tool for Phone Calling Campaign. Until this morning, we had to transcribe the 200-300…
Drug co-payments can be hazardous to your health
Effect on Treatment Adherence of Distributing Essential Medicines at No Charge: The CLEAN Meds Randomized Clinical Trial
…and should be eliminated. A well designed single payer model of Medicare for All would do just that. https://www.nytimes.com… Stay informed! Visit www.pnhp.org/qotd to sign up for daily email updates….
Spending more doesn’t improve health in U.S.
Dr. Tom Duncan provides The Daily Astorian with this report from a meeting at the Clatsop County (Ore.) Medical Society, where Dr. Paul Gorman spoke about single-payer health reform
…of physicians, nurse-practitioners and physicians’ assistants engaged in the ongoing assessment and improvement of health care in Clatsop County. It is a component part of the Oregon Medical Association. http://www.dailyastorian.com/opinion/columns/guest-column-spending-more-doesn-t-improve-health-in-u/article_cb5eba6a-8d4b-11e0-841d-001cc4c002e0.html…
Destroying England's National Health Service (as we know it)
How the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 would end entitlement to comprehensive health care in England
…procurement, financing, and monitoring, must be available as a matter of course. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60119-6/fulltext (The Lancet is offering access to this important article for free, but they do require registration.) Comment:…
Project 2025 Health Policy Critique Redux
Recap of three recent HJM detailed critiques of Project 2025 health policy proposals
…care needs. Project 2025: End Affordable Care Act (ACA) regulation of private health insurance. What it means: Repeal ACA rules that: protect access to insurance (guaranteed issue); require community-rated premiums…
Health Care Abroad: Taiwan
…coverage. It offers people free choice of doctors and hospitals, and it has competition on the delivery side between public and private hospitals. The quality of health services is very…
Immigrants and Health Care — At the Intersection of Two Broken Systems
…see the states and cities scrambling to pass their own laws and regulations, and you’re going to get a completely contradictory set of policies,” Senator John McCain (R-AZ) predicted in…
A conservative call for universal access to health care
By Donald W. Light, Ph.D. Commonweal, February 22, 2002 The United States remains the only industrialized or second-tier country in the world that fails to guarantee its citizens access to…
Your doctor copays are too high!
We’ve chosen a cost-sharing system of high-deductible health care. Here’s why it’s grossly unfair to Americans
…the company’s “comprehensive plan,” so-called “Copay Select.” You expect a hefty annual premium, but are surprised to learn that after the premium is paid, you will still have a sizable deductible…
The Myth of Health Care’s Free Market
…When opponents of the Affordable Care Act argue for patients negotiating health-care prices they make as much sense as proposing that passengers haggle over pay with an airline pilot. http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/01/03/myth-health-cares-free-market.html…
