…And unlike many private health plans, Medicare doesn’t offer catastrophic protection by capping how much beneficiaries have to pay out of pocket every year. That can mean substantial healthcare tabs…
āMedicare for Allā event is well-attended
…individuals and families can sign up for health insurance through state health care exchanges. Healthcare reform There is nothing new about the topic of healthcare reform, and the same cast…
The Milliman Medical Index ($19, 393) in perspective
…in mind that this large sector is composed of members of the relatively healthy workforce and their young healthy families. It represents what we are paying for health care in…
Congressman Ryan drags “premium support” out of the health policy trash heap
…in 2022, new Medicare beneļ¬ciaries will be enrolled in the same kind of health care program that members of Congress enjoy. Future Medicare recipients will be able to choose from…
American healthcare is at a crossroads. It’s time to talk universal healthcare.
The Republican party encourages us to be smart healthcare shoppers. But it’s becoming clear that the best deal, in fact, is a universal healthcare system. By Farzon A. Nahvi, M.D….
Avalere study of proposed copper plans
…Council for Affordable Health Coverage today released an estimate by Avalere Health LLC showing that legislation to permit a new, less expensive tier of insurance coverage under the Affordable Care…
More Americans gain health coverage, but many canāt afford to use it: doctors group
…guarantee every resident the right to health care?” Zarr continued. “This question would not be necessary if we had a health care system worthy of the name – single-payer national…
Over 2 million exchange enrollees forgo cost-sharing reductions
…bronze plan in the years after 2015. http://avalere.com/expertise/managed-care/insights/more-than-2-million-exchange-enrollees-forgo-cost-sharing-assistance *** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD One of the more prominent problems with our dysfunctional system of financing health care is that…
Anderson and Herring on all-payer rate setting
…by a competitive market-oriented health care system should result in efficient (and presumably ethical) rates for hospitals, physicians, drugs, and other health care services. In practice, however, price efficiency does…
Brill’s ‘Bitter Pill’: Accurate Diagnosis, Inadequate Treatment
…with real health care reform, such as: who is the health care system for? (our current answer is the profiteering, mostly corporate stakeholders, not patients and their families); should health…
Tax day surprise for some exchange participants
A Slippery Slope To Defunding The Health Law By Timothy Jost Kaiser Health News February 15, 2011 A key provision of the health law that will provide 19 million consumers…
Government evidence of Medicare Advantage cheating
…have confronted the Medicare program throughout the history of Medicare contracting with health maintenance organizations and other private plans. In the late 1980s, Medicare paid health plans using a system…
