…the efficiency of health care (e.g., high-deductible health plans) focus on increasing direct consumer engagement in the purchase of health care, relying heavily on the notion that informing patients about…
Consumer interest and health reform: The logic of withdrawal from managed competition and the Clinton health plan
…Variations in the Use of Health Care Services?” American Medical Association. Journal (JAMA), 258: 2533-2537. Enthoven, A. C: (1993), “Why Managed Care Has Failed to Contain Health Care Costs,” Health…
Testimony of the Washington State Ad Hoc Coalition on the Citizens Health Care Working Group/Letter to Congressman Stark
Senate Finance Committee
…the Work of Preparing the Health Care Delivery System for Universal Coverage. Lulled by the common myth that Americans have “the best health care in the world”, little attention has…
Data Update – Fall 2013 newsletter
UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED
…year. The $15.1 billion health tab funds the Medicaid program, subsidized insurance under the 2006 health care reform law, premiums for state employees’ health insurance, and public health programs (Norton,…
On The ‘Efficiency’ Of Managed Care Plans
Several decades’ experience has yielded scarce evidence supporting the efficiency of managed care, despite numerous claims that managed care has lowered health care costs.
…to 1995 health policy researchers refrained from claiming that managed care was affecting national health care spending . Enthoven, for example, published a paper in 1993 entitled, “Why Managed Care…
The Long and Unfinished Struggle: Single Payer Health Care in Vermont
…health care access for all of its people. At the same time, the U.S. is the biggest spender on health care. Although the U.S. made an important step toward universal…
What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that U.S. health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
…Conundrum”—the former blamed prices, the latter blamed quantity—they still agreed that who was paying for health care might not be the most important question. “When we debate health care policy,”…
The role of the New Democrats in the explosion of managed care
…heart of President Clinton’s health care reform proposal, the Health Security Act (HSA), which was formulated by a group of health insurance insiders known as the Jackson Hole Group. The…
Resistance to Attacks on Universal Health Care Mounts in Canada
…universal health care is galvanizing outside the arena of electoral politics. Health care activists remain convinced they must organize the public to resist their government to save Canada’s Medicare system….
PNHP Comments on AAFP Reform
…patients’ own health behaviors? Part I: “Individual fiscal responsibility” is a concept that should have no place in the reform of health care. Health care is most ethically viewed as…
The Canadian Cure
…the authority that CanadaÕs courts had given provinces over health care, Douglass crafted North AmericaÕs first universal health insurance scheme. He did so at a time when Saskatchewan was heavily…
Austerity and the Unraveling of European Universal Health Care
…of the universal model of health care was difficult to deny. It was clear that the United States, which lacked a universal system and which had worse outcomes despite paying…
