…Winnipeg can all too easily become an act of negligent homicide. In extreme conditions, free access to good hospitals becomes a critical piece of that caretaking.) The upper classes occasionally…
Less care for fewer and fewer
…their coffers under the PPACA. Underinsurance is guaranteed profits for the insurance companies – and guaranteed misery and financial hardship for patients. Especially during next year’s election campaign, the Obama…
Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare — And Fast
The right-wing policy agenda written for a new Donald Trump presidency would “greatly accelerate” efforts to privatize Medicare
…guarantees that people will have a free choice of provider.” Under traditional Medicare, enrollees are free to visit any doctor who accepts Medicare (nearly all physicians do). Medicare Advantage plans,…
Expand Medicare for all Americans
…organization that works on behalf of citizen interests before Congress, the executive branch agencies and the courts. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/30/opinion/das-medicare-health-care-for-all/index.html?hpt=op_t1…
Psychiatrist appointments hard to get, even for insured: Psychiatric Services study
Harvard researchers find poor access to outpatient psychiatric care in Boston, Chicago and Houston metro areas, with unreturned telephone calls, wrong numbers, and full practices
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 15, 2014 Contact: Mark Almberg, communications director PNHP, mark@pnhp.org, (312) 782-6006 Obtaining access to private outpatient psychiatric care in the Boston, Chicago and Houston metropolitan areas…
Private health insurance offers us sickly benefits
…a commercial health insurance company’s first obligation is to the stockholders, not the policyholders, and as a result, private health insurance companies have a conflict of interest with their policyholders….
Having health insurance doesn’t mean mental health care access. Insurance companies make certain of that.
Insurers often maintain minimal lists of in-network providers, loaded with meaningless names and numbers.
…years I have seen firsthand the way these tactics are utilized by insurers. One way that insurance companies make it difficult to obtain mental health care is to require clinicians…
AMSA & PNHP Essay Contest Winners Announced:
…system which establishes comprehensive healthcare as a guaranteed right for all Americans, and which compensates healthcare providers rationally, simply, and fairly from a single insurance fund financed by taxpayers. This…
The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting
By Arnold Relman The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 11 · July 2, 2009 Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, with…
Sen. McCain’s Guaranteed Access Plan
…lowest prices available to every person in every state. http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/2c3cfa3a-748e-4121-84db-28995cf367da.htm Comment: By Don McCanne, MD This speech was promoted as a major policy address that would flesh out Sen. McCain’s…
Unions Back Plan that Could Kill Off Real Health Care Reform
…compete with the nation’s 1,500 insurance companies. Americans would get tax-financed subsidies to purchase insurance from either a private insurance company or the public plan. Competition, which has never worked…
The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting
By Arnold Relman The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 11 · July 2, 2009 Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, with…
