…of Health Services. Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This…
Canada’s health care system and the sustainability paradox
…sustainable for the foreseeable future. Are increases in government spending on health care sustainable? One view maintains that our publicly funded health care system is unsustainable because health care expenditures…
Canada's health care system and the sustainability paradox
…sustainable for the foreseeable future. Are increases in government spending on health care sustainable? One view maintains that our publicly funded health care system is unsustainable because health care expenditures…
The New Zealand Health Care System
…health care which had largely been accepted by both political parties since the establishment of universal health care in the 1930s. These monetarist reforms largely failed to produce promised benefits,…
We’re almost there with three single payer bills
…of Health Services. Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This…
Overuse and underuse of health care
…papers in this Series have outlined how underuse and overuse of health-care services occur within a complex system of health-care production, with a multiplicity of causes. Because poor care is…
Hundreds Gather in Albany to Launch Statewide Single Payer Health Care Coalition
New State Coalition Urges Lawmakers to Adopt a Single Payer Universal Health Care System
…Health Care Task Force, Capital District Alliance for Universal Health Care, Health Care-NOW, Albany Presbytery, various chapters of the Physicians for a National Health Program, League of Women Voters of…
National Health Insurance: Could It Work in the US?
…prescription drugs in the US health care system greatly exceeds what it would cost to provide health care to all uninsured Americans.17 We can decrease health care costs and provide…
The Health of Nations
…the health-care industry. And who do you suppose is the highest ranking health care system? Johns Hopkins? Mayo Clinic? Massachusetts General? Nope. In every single category, the veterans health care…
A Single-Payer System Would Reduce U.S. Health Care Costs
…in health care financing, overall health care costs will remain poorly controlled. Though our clinical outcomes are mediocre by comparison [1], the average per capita cost of health care in…
“Covering the Uninsured” – Strengthening employer-based coverage?
…access to comprehensive health care services for everyone, fund it equitably, and contain health care costs through a publicly administered program of universal health insurance. The Cover the Uninsured Week…
"Covering the Uninsured" – Strengthening employer-based coverage?
…access to comprehensive health care services for everyone, fund it equitably, and contain health care costs through a publicly administered program of universal health insurance. The Cover the Uninsured Week…
