…heads the Dartmouth Atlas Project. But as Uwe Reinhardt pointed out the other day, the idea is actually an old idea. It’s called Kaiser Permanente. … the non-evidence based approach…
Single-payer health care system touted
150 rally in support of concept at regional forum at UVM
…at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, urged policymakers to “focus on people, not patients and think beyond the silo of the health care budget.” DeParle and the two governors will report to…
Are There Trade-offs in Public Health Insurance Design?
Trade-offs in Public Health Insurance Design
…Dartmouth College, we highlight that the costs of having a uniform public insurance benefit have increased dramatically since Medicare’s advent in 1965. One reason for the sharp increase in the…
Democratic Hopefuls Urged to Scrap Private Insurers
…Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. The ads ran only in New England and the Washington area during MSNBC’s broadcast of a Democratic candidates’ debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire….
Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending
…expansion reflect reductions in the amount of wasteful care provided to the already insured. Similarly, studies by the Dartmouth Group indicate that the volume of elective and low-value care increases…
Lowering mortality by adding more diagnoses (a game)
Geographic Variation in Diagnosis Frequency and Risk of Death Among Medicare Beneficiaries
…beneficiaries, there is an inverse relationship between the regional frequency of diagnoses and the case-fatality rate for chronic conditions. http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/11/1113.abstract Comment: By Don McCanne, MD This study from the Dartmouth…
Trumpās Pervasive Assault on Americaās Health
The recent federal budget bill slashed $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare. Yet the Trump administrationās attack on health regulations and research extends much further, undoing decades of proven capacity to save lives and reduce disease. We must harness discontent with this assault on health to rebuild and improve the system.
…administration has imposed on many elite universities to bring them to heel—including all of the Ivies except Dartmouth and Yale. The three fronts of this assault—on tax-funded medical coverage, public…
Harrisā Medicare proposal is sound
…in traditional Medicare, while securing the long-term stability of the Medicare Trust Fund. Dr. Kenneth Dolkart is a geriatrician and an assistant professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. https://vnews.com……
An ER doc reflects on life, death and uncertainty in the early days of COVID-19
Interview with Dr. Farzon Nahvi
…in New Hampshire and the clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School. Before that, he worked in hospitals in Manhattan. He’s written for The New York…
PNHP Newsletter: Spring 2022
Table of contents Click the links below to jump to different sections of the newsletter. To view a PDF version of the shorter print edition of the newsletter, click HERE….
Direct Contracting in the News
…are Watching,” by Thomas Lane, The Dartmouth, July 1, 2022 “Congress must stop the pillaging of traditional Medicare,” by Dr. Leonardo Alonso, The Florida Times-Union, May 20, 2022 “Why Seniors…
Physicians’ Proposal
Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Physiciansā Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform
Dear colleague, We invite you to add your name to the list of endorsers of “Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform,” which is…
