…manufacturing uncompetitive and force employers to divert attention from running their firms to dealing with health insurers. Our universal single-payer health-care plan for older Americans, Medicare, has lower costs and…
Primary care physicians’ experiences in ten countries; U.S. stands out
…obtain health care after hours. *** In 2012, 59 percent of US physicians said that their patients often have difficulty paying out-of-pocket costs for medical care – a percentage well…
Another P4P dud
…improving the quality of health care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently completed a 6-year demonstration of pay for performance for hospitals through the Premier Hospital Quality…
California’s largest insurers continue to cheat
…providers helps consumers, said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California. “Consumers would rather that the time and resources of health providers go to patient care, rather than in…
McCain’s Radical Agenda
…of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie…
Private Medicare Advantage plans being paid for phantom care of VA patients
…the care that is actually delivered in our publicly-financed VA system. Thus taxpayers are paying twice for the same care – real care in the VA system and phantom care…
PPACA isn’t protecting UC Santa Cruz
…increases typical of the private insurers. Medicare cost-sharing adjustments are also very modest, unlike the financial barriers to care being erected by the private insurers. Medicare benefits do not diminish…
L.A. County slashes doctors’ reimbursement rate
…corner, that won’t work. Should the county, as the health care provider of last resort, pay for at least the costs of the care? State and local governments are struggling…
A doctor’s voice: A national health insurance plan makes more sense
…we could organize our health care financing in an efficient, fair and affordable manner, and reduce their family’s health care costs by a third, they would jump at the chance….
Health care ‘overhaul’? The devil’s in the details
By Andrew Coates Rochester City Newspaper December 29, 2009 As health insurance reform inches towards the president’s desk, the airwaves and editorial pages fill with spin. “Health-care overhaul,” the headlines…
Imagine getting sick, getting bills you can’t pay, then being sent to jail
…operates five health-care facilities in the Nashville area, offers similar help for low-income patients. “The No. 1 reason for charity care denials is that they do not submit the application,”…
End Insurance’s Bad Incentives
…ones. Fee-for-service health care rewards the overprovision of care; capitation (a set monthly fee per patient) rewards underprovision; and salaries reward just showing up. The minority of physicians (and hospital…
