…seems to be keeping people out of the program. A paper released today in the journal Health Affairs, written by researchers from the federal government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and…
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Time to Pronounce it Dead
…Replace It and Hijacked! The Road to Single-Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform (Common Courage Press, 2008 and 2010) To buy books from John Geyman visit: http://www.copernicus-healthcare.org…
Happy Birthday, Medicare — the best form of health insurance
…of Medicare and enjoy health care security from cradle to grave. Happy Birthday Medicare! Jackie Wolf is chair of the League of Women Voters of Amherst Health Care Committee. http://www.gazettenet.com/home/12957847-95/jackie-wolf-happy-birthday-medicare-the-best-form-of-health-insurance…
Is Gingrich’s prediction of Medicare withering on the vine about to come true?
…on the American health care system weakens. If the trend continues, policies, including those in the Affordable Care Act, designed to use traditional Medicare as a tool to reshape health…
UnitedHealthCare disadvantages Medicare Advantage
…the public that is paying the Medicare bills. The natural speculation is that UnitedHealthCare is hiding behind the ACA to boost its profits. In a letter to UnitedHealthCare CEO Stephen…
Patient complicity through insurer kickback
…another scheme to make patients informed shoppers in the health care market by making them sensitive to the costs – or cash rewards! – for the health care they choose….
Facts disappoint both sides of the reform debate
…us in supporting single payer – a model that would be truly universal, accessible, affordable, and, properly designed, would improve the quality of health care in the United States. In…
Center for Public Integrity on the Medicare Advantage Money Grab
…health care industry clients. http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/06/04/14840/why-medicare-advantage-costs-taxpayers-billions-more-it-should “The Medicare Advantage Money Grab”: http://www.publicintegrity.org/health/medicare/medicare-advantage-money-grab **** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Medicare Advantage is a program in which our government has conspired with insurers…
Employer-sponsored health plans under the Affordable Care Act
Health Policy Brief: Employers and Health Care Reform Health Affairs/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation March 9, 2011 To expand access and strengthen the employment-based health system, the Affordable Care Act of…
Insurers continue health care rip-off
…actually spent on health care. Businesses would be freed from paying rising health insurance costs or passing them on to their workers, because health insurance coverage would not be tied…
John Goodman: “real” insurance means sick pay more
The Case for Health Insurance By John Goodman John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog January 26, 2011 I’m one of the very few health policy wonks you know (maybe the only…
Hijacked—Stolen Health Care Reform II: Why will health care become much less affordable?
…Oxford University Press, 1988.) So far we have found little evidence that health care “reform” circa 2010 will contain health care costs or make health care more affordable. In our…
