…the absence of government power to ensure universal rights. There is no health care system in the world (including the fashionable Swiss model) that provides universal health benefits coverage without…
Bending the cost curve
…health care reform are 1) to cover everyone, and 2) to slow the growth in health care costs so that health care is affordable. So what is Congress doing? The…
Waxman ready to move – but where?
…extent on our dealing with the health of our health care system.” But Mr. Waxman said private insurers would play a significant role in the implementation of universal health coverage,…
The Implications of the 2000 Election
…that already have health care coverage. Low income individuals do not benefit unless they are given a refundable tax credit that approximates the cost of health care coverage, an extremely…
Who’s A Health Care “Moderate”?
…a lot about the health care plan Harry S. Truman pushed at the time. It was a universal health care plan. Government-run. Business interests like General Motors killed it by…
PNHP Slideshows-test2
…2015) Sample Grand Rounds Presentation Video: Separate and Unequal: How Universal Health Care Would Mitigate Disparities Slides: Separate and Unequal: How Universal Health Care Would Mitigate Disparities By Ed Weisbart,…
Beyond The ACA: Paths To Universal Coverage In California
…control over the financing of health care. In 2017 the state Senate passed the Healthy California Act, SB-562, calling for California to adopt a single-payer health care system. The state…
Mass. ‘Universal’ Health Plan Already Falling Short
…such as California and Maine — consider copying the Massachusetts model. FTCR said states implementing individual healthcare mandates need to couple affordable health care with insurer oversight. “Something has to…
Taxes Over Premiums to Fund Single Payer
Health care costs and worries are surging, as is economic inequality. Recently HJM readers proposed paying for single payer with premiums (which weāre used to) instead of taxes (which many reflexively dislike). But only taxes permit the progressive financing approach needed for affordable universal health care.
…the availability and affordability of healthcare hasn’t increased over the past year, ongoing public concerns about healthcare costs, including personal challenges in affording care, make this a perennial concern. Income…
Will paying for quality in Medicare backfire?
…the health-care sector is decidedly mixed. Health-care systems in Massachusetts have shown significant savings using these kind of models. Other experiments have gone less well: When Medicare tried to tie…
Obama administration’s dishonest promotion of Medicare Advantage
…Advantage plans this year and are dropping by less than 1 percent in 2012. The health care law softens the impact of Medicare Advantage cuts in 2012 by providing billions…
Americans prefer health coverage to a tax cut; & a ratio that represents more equitable funding
…public part of health care costs; we want to know the total health care costs and the respective components. Dismissing private spending from the debate while discussing the change in…
