Let’s let employers get out of the medical care business By Jack E. Lohman Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online Posted: July 3, 2005 After spending 35 years in the health care…
Lessons from British Columbia
…the B.C. government hardly said a peep about the accord’s demise is evidence of how much the system has changed in the past few years. http://www.thenownewspaper.com/opinion/baldrey-health-care-changes-seem-… Evidence based health care….
TPP and the Dire Threat to Affordable Drug Prices
…Milliman Medical Index: Healthcare costs for a typical American family will exceed $25,000 in 2016 and have tripled since 2001. PRNewswire, May 24, 2016. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/milliman-medical-index-healthcare-costs-for-a-typical-american-family-will-exceed-25000-in-2016-and-have-tripled-since-2001-300273940.html 6. Reuters. U. S. health…
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…
Ending the scourge of surprise medical bills
…who provide treatment. Congress provided a measure of help in the Affordable Care Act for patients receiving emergency care from out-of-network doctors by requiring insurers to cover the same percentage…
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-c… “The Medicare Advantage Money Grab”:http://www.publicintegrity.org/health/medicare/medicare-advantage-money-… Medicare Advantage is a program in which our government has conspired with insurers to privatize Medicare, even though it costs…
System’s ills cost us
…as political. Woolhandler and others invite flak because they belong to the National Health Program, whose members believe that “the only solution to solving the United States’ many health care…
Cost of Insuring Workers’ Health Increases 11.2%
…access to employer health care coverage than the 127 million reported in 2001, said John Gabel, vice president of Health Research and Educational Trust. With health care high on the…
Enthoven on Americans’ sense of equity
Enthoven on Americans’ sense of equity The 11th Princeton Conference: Managing Cost and Quality Through the Health Care Delivery System: Managing Care within Organized Delivery Systems May 21, 2004 Question…
Facts disappoint both sides of the reform debate
…a model that would be truly universal, accessible, affordable, and, properly designed, would improve the quality of health care in the United States. In fact, many of the current opponents…
Woolhandler and Himmelstein respond to Urban Instituteās doubling down on errors
…medical care; if such a definition existed, insurers would stop paying for all unnecessary care under our current health system. Second, there is absolutely no reason to believe that higher-income,…
Single-Payer NHI: The Only Way the U. S Can Ever Get Affordable Health Care
by John Geyman, M.D. Now that Bernie Sanders has brought forward his progressive agenda, including real health care reform through a single-payer universal Medicare for all program, the knives are…
