…national health expenditures by source of funds and type of expenditures: calendar years 2006–2012; [cited 2014 Sep 17]. Available from: http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/Downloads/tables.pdf City University of New York, New York, N.Y. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/11/2081.2.full…
The who and how of improving the U.S. health care system
…ranking fifth among the 11 countries. http://www.commonwealthfund.org… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. This NEJM Perspective article is based on the 2017 update of The Commonwealth Fund’s ranking of health…
Price to HHS, Verma to CMS, patients to purgatory
…Medicaid Services, a transition official told Reuters on Monday. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-verma-idUSKBN13O09T Indiana’s phony Medicaid health savings accounts: https://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/august/indiana’s-phony-medicaid-health-savings-accounts **** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. President-elect Donald Trump is making good on…
Medicare’s own actuary confirms the deleterious consequences of short-term health plans
Trump’s Plan for Cheaper Health Insurance Could Have Hidden Costs
…https://www.nytimes.com… American Academy of Actuaries; Re: CMS–9924–P—Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance: http://www.actuary.org… Addendum: the link to the report from Medicare’s chief actuary: https://www.cms.gov… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. There have been…
AMA’s Heal that Claim Month
…paid claims Appeal that Claim (65 pages): http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/368/appeal-that-claim.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD The AMA has selected November as the first national Heal that Claim Month. The problems that this…
Martin Luther King Jr would support Oxfam’s recommendations to the World Economic Forum
…Oxfam Briefing Paper – Summary: http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf World Economic Forum – Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_GlobalAgendaOutlook_2014.pdf **** Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world…
The Single-Payer System In Taiwan
…17]. Available from: https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-239.pdf Congressional Budget Office. Insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act—CBO’s March 2015 baseline [Internet]. Washington (DC): CBO; 2015 [cited 2015 Apr 16]. Available from: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43900-2015-03-ACAtables.pdf…
NCHC’s call for comprehensive reform
…will work with us in this important effort. Full report: http://www.nchc.org/materials/studies/reform.pdf Press release: http://www.nchc.org/news/press_releases/2004_07_20.pdf Webcast of the briefing: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1239. Comment: On reading the full report it is difficult to come…
HHS hands exchange control to insurers!
…example, a State may elect to prohibit any conflicted members from serving on the board. Final rule, Interim final rule. (644 pages): http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/~/media/Files/2012/Exchange%20Standards%20For%20Employers%20March%202012.pdf HHS release: http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/07/exchanges07112011a.html Reulatory impact analysis: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/~/media/Files/2012/Exchange%20Regulatory%20Impact%20Analysis%20March%202012.pdf…
Medpac struggles to define “medical home”
…a real cost disadvantage…. [pp. 251-253] http://www.medpac.gov/transcripts/0314MedPAC_transcript.pdf If you endorse a vague plan based on conventional wisdom rather than evidence and it doesn’t work, how do you revise it? Upon…
Health insurance gains fall short of what we could have had
…has increased 17.4 percent. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p60-256.pdf *** PNHP release on Census health insurance report: https://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/september/stronger-rx-than-obamacare-needed-to-cover-everyone-and-control-costs-physician- *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. The good news is that more people than ever now…
AMA's Heal that Claim Month
…70.78% Anthem – 72.14% CIGNA – 66.23% Coventry – 86.74% Health Net – not reported Humana – 84.20% UHC – 61.55% Medicare – 98.12% http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/368/reportcard.pdf And… Appeal that Claim AMA…
