…Obamacare) and supply-side reforms (community health centers, Veterans Administration, Indian Health Service, etc.). “Market failures” encountered when attempting to apply market forces to the health sector. Advantages and shortcomings of…
Should Clinical Guidelines Incorporate Cost Pathways for Persons With Financial Hardship?
…cost as a barrier to high-value, cost-effective care. It could be different. Imagine more of our health professional societies demanding universal access to care and single-payer health insurance.43, 44 Imagine…
Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid
A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs
…(OEI-09-19-00350). https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2023/high-rates-of-prior-authorization-denials-by-some-plans-and-limited-state-oversight-raise-concerns-about-access-to-care-in-medicaid-managed-care/ American Medical Association. (2024, August 9). Prior authorization delays care—and increases health care costs. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/prior-authorization-delays-care-and-increases-health-care Connecticut Department of Social Services. (n.d.). A precis of the Connecticut Medicaid program…
Markets and Medical Care: The United States, 1993-2005
…Medicare and Private Insurance. Urban Institute Health Policy Online 4. Available at http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=900615 (accessed January 11, 2007). Bodenheimer, T.S. 2005. The Political Divide in Health Care: A Liberal Perspective. Health…
The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care
…universal health care succeeded in becoming part of the mainstream health care discourse. In his 1960 The Constitution of Liberty, Hayek presented what is essentially the philosophical essence of health…
Health Reform and Social Justice: Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health Disparities
Presentation by Dr. Susan Rogers
…Stress Health Care System: Health coverage, Provider availability, Provider linguistic and cultural competence, Quality of care Health Outcomes: Mortality, Morbidity, Life Expectancy, Health Care Expenditures, Health Status, Functional Limitations We…
Financing a single-payer national health program
…would be nearly universal and out-of-pocket spending on healthcare would be lower—resulting in increased demand for health care—under the design specifications that CBO analyzed. The supply of health care would…
Moral Injury in Medicine
…(2022). Final report and recommendations. Oregon Health Authority. https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/HP/TFUHC%20Meeting%20Documents/Joint%20Task%20Force%20on%20Universal%20Health%20Care%20Final%20Report%20%20Recommendations%20Oct%202022.pdf League of Women Voters of Portland. (2022). Ballot measure 111: Right to health care amendment. https://lwvpdx.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Measure-111-Health-Care-Edited-Final-Layout.pdf McDermott Will & Emery. (2025,…
PNHP Newsletter: Summer 2021
…Data Update: Health care crisis by the numbers Costs of Care Drug Prices Coverage Saves Lives and Money Health Inequities Veteran’s Health Health Care for Profit Commercial Health Insurance: A…
Americans Support Single payer. Why Doesn’t Celinda Lake?
…ever say “universal health care” or “universal coverage,” and AE obeyed this edict. The phrase “universal health care” appears nowhere in the AE report. And yet, when pressed, Lake et…
Americans Support Single payer. Why Doesn't Celinda Lake?
…seen, Lake recommends that no one ever say “universal health care” or “universal coverage,” and AE obeyed this edict. The phrase “universal health care” appears nowhere in the AE report….
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