…on the American health care system weakens. If the trend continues, policies, including those in the Affordable Care Act, designed to use traditional Medicare as a tool to reshape health…
“I Think I See a Few Dollars on That X-Ray: We’ll have to Operate”
…inexpensive care that has the biggest impact on health and wellness. They’re for big ticket items like surgery and imaging suites. Those buildings will soon be filled, driving health costs…
Senator Kuehl’s Open Letter to the Governor on SB 840
…in partial reform. As you know, the Lewin Group, an independent analysis group that focuses on healthcare costs, predicts that the universal health care system in SB 840 would save…
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….
Medical journal cautions that ‘pay for performance’ may adversely affect health care
By Bill Toland Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 15, 2012 With insurers and Medicare hoping that they can cajole doctors and hospitals into providing better care by paying them for good performance,…
Stuck out-of-network and vulnerable
…leaving consumers on the hook for the entire bill if they get care from an out-of-network provider. The health law does provide protection for consumers when they receive emergency care…
Nine Questions About My New Medical Home
…until health care is seen as a public good instead of a private commodity. A national health system, it seems, is the only economically rational and humane way forward. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/03/17/nine-questions-about-my-new-medical-home/…
Disruption in the financing of primary care
…essential community health care services in regions often not attractive to large, consolidated health systems. If we switched everyone to Medicare right now, the system would work, though many problems…
Doctor favors a single-payer health care system
…already higher than the total health spending in any other nation. We’re paying more than enough for universal comprehensive health care, but we’re not getting it. Even more striking, 31…
Analysis: Single Payer Needs A Political Quarterback
…Montpelier has to figure out how to build a new state financing system that pulls together the money streams now paying for health care in the state. It also must…
Oncologists Call for Single-Payer System
…Improving quality of care and outcomes by increasing access to care Reverse the trend toward for-profit, investor-owned healthcare plans Preserve physician’s income potential, as judged by experience with the Canadian…
Shumlin: Timing Key For Single-Payer
…made the remarks before students in Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, which marries the expertise of the business world with health care, and includes professionals from around…
