…the high costs of the health care exchanges, they will demand a nationalized health care system.“ It only gets worse, or better, depending on your perspective. According to Gingrich, the…
Why are large employers unable to control their costs?
…our dysfunctional system of financing health care, but you would be wrong. This report shows that escalating health care costs continue to plague our nation’s largest employers, so much so…
Disruption in the financing of primary care
…prices are higher in the consolidated systems and will not be tolerated for long, and 2) traditional primary care practices, including community health centers, provide essential community health care services…
L.A. County slashes doctors’ reimbursement rate
…the county, as the health care provider of last resort, pay for at least the costs of the care? State and local governments are struggling with deficits in their budgets….
Health spending expected to accelerate again
…spending reflects high-value care and therefore, health care delivery reform is no longer an urgent priority.” Over the last 40 years or so, health care spending has been growing 2.4…
Why are the insurers supporting the Republicans?
Insurance firms infuse GOP with big doses of cash By Noam N. Levey Chicago Tribune October 4, 2010 Faced with wide-ranging new requirements in the health care law, the insurance…
PPACA isn’t protecting UC Santa Cruz
…insurers. Medicare cost-sharing adjustments are also very modest, unlike the financial barriers to care being erected by the private insurers. Medicare benefits do not diminish but have actually increased through…
More on the Deficit Commissionās co-chairsā proposal
…only half of health care costs for our seniors and those with long-term disabilities. Medicare beneficiaries face significant financial barriers to care, sometimes preventing them from receiving essential health care…
Ezra Klein on prices and innovation
Americans pay too much for health care — in charts By Ezra Klein The Washington Post November 23, 2010 There are a lot of complicated explanations for why American health-care…
California’s largest insurers continue to cheat
…providers helps consumers, said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California. “Consumers would rather that the time and resources of health providers go to patient care, rather than in…
Will the exchange plans be subject to adverse selection?
…health, and another 28 percent report recent problems with access to care or paying medical bills, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change…
The Canadian health care system I disparaged
…far lower than it is here and where people live longer. Former CIGNA executive-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter writes about the health care industry and the ongoing battle for health reform. http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/04/28/14674/canadian-health-care-system-i-disparaged…
