…for insurers to sell insurance to all applicants at standard rates — the “guaranteed issue” and “community rating” provisions. https://www.nytimes.com… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Amongst the more important…
End-of-year checkup
Rush to maximize insurance benefits should remind us there's a better way
…think about how strange it is. We have all come to accept the fact that an insurance company can completely change how and when we choose to receive care, and…
Does ACA's "Basic Health Program" stabilize coverage?
Balancing Coverage Affordability and Continuity under a Basic Health Program Option
…an individual mandate to obtain health insurance. The ACA’s incremental approach to near-universal coverage has raised concerns that changes in income, employment, and family composition will shift people into and…
Does ACA’s “Basic Health Program” stabilize coverage?
…coverage purchased through a new insurance exchange, small-employer tax credits, and an individual mandate to obtain health insurance. The ACA’s incremental approach to near-universal coverage has raised concerns that changes…
Reducing reform to ‘guaranteed issue’
With ACA Back in Court, Voters Still Litigating Obama’s Role in Health System
…to come up with a plan to replace the most popular components of ObamaCare after a panel of appellate judges on Tuesday aggressively questioned whether the law passes legal muster…
Building the Path to Medicare for All
Democrats Have An Historic Opportunity To Advance FDR’s Vision For Universal, Guaranteed Health Care, Common Dreams, July 14, 2021, by Nancy Altman FDR, his Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, and their…
The single-payer solution
Commentary By Linda Hunt Beckman Philadelphia Inquirer Tue, Mar. 20, 2007 Linda Hunt Beckman is a professor of English at Arcadia University and a coordinator for Neighborhood Networks It is…
Jacob Hacker’s “Health Care for America”
…income-related premium. The states would be given powerful incentives to enroll any remaining uninsured. http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp180.html For the PDF version of “Health Care for America:” http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp180/bp180.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD…
ACA exchange plans are creating new administrative headaches for physicians
…as opposed to traditional commercial health insurance. Compared to patients with traditional commercial coverage, nearly 60% of respondents indicated that for patients with ACA exchange coverage it is somewhat or…
Insurers continue to discriminate against the sick
…formulary changes during a plan year. http://www.theaidsinstitute.org/sites/default/files/attachments/IAmStillEssentialBurwellltr_0.pdf **** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD In spite of regulations defining the essential health benefits to be covered, actuarial values of the health…
Provider clout driving up private insurance prices
The Growing Power Of Some Providers To Win Steep Payment Increases From Insurers Suggests Policy Remedies May Be Needed
…Hospital Medicare Index http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices/sp-healthcare-economic-indices/en/us/?indexId=sp-healthcare-economic-indices Comment: By Don McCanne, MD This Health Affairs article explains how health care providers – particularly dominant hospital systems – through consolidation and other market manipulations,…
The public option in perspective
…and Policy Studies at Yale, is an author of “American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper.” http://www.nytimes.com… *** Comment: By Don McCanne,…
