…investor ownership within our health care system. As this article states, “Obamacare will prove to be a gold mine for astute traders and investors.” Is this what our health care…
What Dr. King might say about physicians in the 1 percent
…Opponents of government-financed medicine have warned that controls on health care spending might deprive health care of some of the finest and brightest minds. What? Do we really want more…
Are we forgetting about the underinsured?
…the private insurance industry. People will be ready to replace our dysfunctional system with a single payer national health program that would eliminate, for everyone, financial barriers to health care….
Prescription mining raises millions for doctors’ group
…how it is being used or the impact it has on patient care and health-care costs. A growing number of states have taken measures to end data mining because the…
TPMCafe on Jonathan Cohn’s “Sick”
…health care bill. The insurers have already defeated the insurance function of transferring funds from the many who are healthy to the few who have significant health care needs. And…
John Goodman says the problem is the anti-capitalist mentality
…This blog on “The Anti-Capitalist Mentality” does pertain to health care reform in that we will never have an equitable health care system for all until we decide that equity…
Timid ideas won’t fix health mess
…in paying for basic necessities such as food, heat and housing because of rising health-care costs. This isn’t much of a foundation upon which to construct a new system. In…
Idaho Gov. Otter's health care solution for the poor
…more responsibility for their health. http://washingtonexaminer.com/idaho-governor-eliminate-personal-property… Wow! What a great idea! Instead of paying for essential health care services for Medicaid patients, let’s make those people “take more responsibility for…
L.A.’s critical condition
…to change their lives in ways that might make them healthier. In the 1990s, county health officials tried to save money by paying community clinics to provide preventive care to…
TIME: Steven Brill's "bitter pill" should wake us up
…Medicare may not be a realistic systemwide model for reform, the way Medicare works does demonstrate, by comparison, how the overall health care market doesn’t work. Unless you are protected…
Jacob Hacker’s “Health Care for America”
Health Care for America A proposal for guaranteed, affordable health care for all Americans building on Medicare and employment-based insurance by Jacob S. Hacker The Economic Policy Institute EPI Briefing…
Stuck out-of-network and vulnerable
…out-of-network care. The insurers are forcing upon us even more of their primary product – administrative services – while evading the very purpose of health care coverage by not paying…
