…higher-income consumer-taxpayers. Thus, lower- and middle-income Americans with health coverage pay not only for their own families’ health care but also to support a vast health care enterprise that primarily…
A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at 60
…for the preparation of health care professionals in England. 10. Tenth, and finally, aim for health. I suppose your forebears could have called it the NHCS, the “National Health Care…
Interview with Dr. David Himmelstein
…movement for universal health care. He was also an author of the recently defeated Question 5, a Massachusetts initiative that would have delivered universal health care for the citizens of…
Vermont report: Pre-existing conditions
…care costs growing by nearly the same percentage annually, controlling the spiraling cost of health care and covering the uninsured had the Legislature’s attention. Another single-payer health care bill was…
A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US
…health care benefits also served to cushion workers from the impact of health care costs and undermined the movement for a government program. Why did these efforts for universal national…
Canadian Auto Works Support Medicare
…the letter said. The public health care system also makes Canadian workers healthier and more productive, the letter added. Mr. Grimaldi said preserving and enhancing the health care system will…
Capretta and Moffit – "How to Replace Obamacare"
…health-care premiums is open-ended, workers and employers have an incentive to make health benefits a disproportionately large share of total compensation. And because employers obtain and manage health plans for…
Capretta and Moffit – “How to Replace Obamacare”
…health-care premiums is open-ended, workers and employers have an incentive to make health benefits a disproportionately large share of total compensation. And because employers obtain and manage health plans for…
Capretta and Moffit – "How to Replace Obamacare"
How to Replace Obamacare
…their choice. IMPROVING HEALTH CARE FOR THE VULNERABLE The fifth key component of a genuine health-care reform plan must be an overhaul of Medicaid. Medicaid is actually three separate programs:…
Health care in America/Canada’S way
…Bush and Kerry health care plans. Tuesday Retirees hit hard as health benefits are lost. Wednesday Health care tops the labor-management agenda. Today How Canada provides health care for all….
A Response to HCAN: Flawed Data, Failed Strategy
…Physicians for a National Health Program, made the following remarks: “Physicians for a National Health Program welcomes the call for quality, affordable health care for all by the new Health…
Let’s take money transactions out of the health care delivery setting
A Scalpel Instead Of A Sledgehammer: The Potential Of Value-Based Deductible Exemptions In High-Deductible Health Plans
…elements of consumerism and managed care. Often, HDHPs are offered along with a savings option (health savings account or health reimbursement arrangement) in a consumer-directed health plan. Recently, however, there…
