…innumerable examples of these perversities. A quick Google of the PNHP website, in a fraction of a second, produced these lines and many more: “For-profit hospital chain Tenet, formerly National…
More administrative fraud
Health Care Financing Fraud Trial Nears
…money from investors’ funds for improper uses, fabricating data in investor reports, and moving money back and forth between accounts to conceal investor fund shortfalls. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkdc2GUMaHK0IngdvbVHeZuQs0fgD8UGFDRG1 Comment: By Don McCanne,…
Democratic candidates question reform proposals
Obama Criticizes Rivals on Health Care
…how can you like HMOs and insurance companies?” Richard Ingram called out from the audience. “That’s called a left hook,” Richardson joked. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNrYvAi-WwpRBCdw1Ry9fxZ2as4QD8T1O61G0 Comment: By Don McCanne, MD There seems…
Expanding uninsurance through premiums
Insurance Premium Cost-Sharing and Coverage Take-up
…insurance, take-up will still not be 100 percent since too many individuals simply do not have the funds to pay the required contribution. Entering “universal coverage” into Google just now…
Life, Liberty, Health Care
By Billy Zou The Dartmouth Monday, October 5, 2009 For those who have been living outside the U.S. or in a cave, two health care reform bills have been proposed…
New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Says Evidence Against For-Profit Hospitals Now Conclusive
…The study on hospitals, performed by Dartmouth Medical School researchers Elaine Silverman, MD, MPH, Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, and Jonathan Skinner, PhD finds substantially higher Medicare costs and more rapid…
Single-payer advocate speaks to Blue Dogs on health reform
…is assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Born and raised in Evansville, Ind., Stone graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Colorado Medical…
Leading economists' advice to President Obama on controlling costs
Letter to President Barack Obama urging four elements be included in health reform legislation to control costs
…Skinner, Dartmouth College Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson, University of California, Berkeley Letter: http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22739/Economist_Letter_to_the_President.pdf The source of the letter: http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/publications/letter_to_president_barack_obama_urging_four_elements_be_included_in_health_reform_legislation_to_control_costs/ OECD Tax Database (Table 0.1): http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,2340,en_2649_34533_1942460_1_1_1_1,00.html Bundled payments and ACOs: https://pnhp.org/news/2009/november/rand-and-br-on-savings-through-bundled-payments…
Projections of savings from health IT are baseless, Harvard researchers say
National survey of U.S. hospitals shows information technology has yielded neither administrative efficiencies nor cost savings
…Society (HIMSS) Analytics annual survey of hospital computerization; Medicare Cost Reports that virtually all hospitals submit annually to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); and the 2008 Dartmouth…
MedPAC on variation in service use
Report to the Congress: Measuring Regional Variation in Service Use
…should not be confused. http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Dec09_RegionalVariation_report.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD This paper is an important addition to the work of John Wennberg and his colleagues at Dartmouth on regional variation…
Doctor makes case for single-payer care
…and patients at Dartmouth Medical School and Concord Hospital. Members of the public, like Holzen, asked how they can get involved to help change the current system. Fein said contacting…
State and national single-payer news, plus how to strengthen Medicare
…payer at grand rounds or at meetings of civic, faith and community groups. (You can watch Dr. Oliver Fein’s June 11 grand rounds presentation at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center titled…
