…to take part in changing the health care system and providing families like mine with health care. Currently, U.S. health care is for-profit and focuses on the bottom line. We…
HMOs embrace tiered benefits
…costs, I meant that Medicare HMOs are less efficient than the traditional Medicare program — that a dollar invested in Medicare HMOs buys less health care than a dollar invested…
The Fight for Medicare for All Made Some Important Progress in 2020
The fight for Medicare for All is one of the most important in the United States today. And despite the many horrors of 2020, the movement demanding an end to our privatized health system actually made some headway this year.
…privatize Canada’s universal health care program. “I think the constitutional challenge to our health care system has caused some to sit up and pay attention because there is a lot…
The Health Care Monster Returns: Even Republicans acknowledge its ravages, but what's the best way to slay the beast?
…“But the fundamental question is, ‘Who pays?’ Is [universal health care going to be] a sliding scale health care plan where everyone is entitled to first class health care, or…
Bill of Health
How market logic hobbles the nation's hospitals
…not market logic. Inequalities in health care demand and health care supply share a single root: the only partially successful venture to build a health care system on the principles…
Cost Sharing for Health Insurance: Too Big a Price to Pay by the Insured?
…built on the concept of “moral hazard,” whereby those with insurance are expected to overuse health care services and lead to uncontrolled increases in health care costs. As health care…
Deductibles do not foster price shopping
…Giving consumers direct incentives to think about their health care spending is a cornerstone of health reform in the US and plays a large role in several national health systems…
The Single-Payer Alternative
…medical care. Taxpayers fund at least half of all health care spending in the U.S. The number of people covered by Medicare, Medicaid and military health plans is over 87…
Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program
…by inequalities in hospitals and other health facilities. Moreover, there are just too few hospitals, clinics and health centers to take proper care of the people of the United States….
How Medicine Must Change for Endemic COVID-19
To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.
…in four Americans lacks a primary care physician altogether, while the proportion of health spending devoted to primary care is shrinking. Relatedly, the number of primary care physicians per capita…
The Great Health Care Takeaway
…health care aligns the two parties over the coming cuts to Medicare in Obama’s bi-partisan “Super Congress,” while also binding the two parties’ approach to health care on a state…
What will be the legacy of Barbara Starfield?
Detailing the Primary Care Imperative ā Remembering Barbara Starfield
…in health and health care delivery. Her work spanned decades, showing how primary care improves population health and lowers health care expenditures. It guided many of us in the quest…
