…pay for health care. (See Addendum below for information about how this estimate was calculated.) Beyond their direct payments to health care providers and health insurance companies, then, Americans already…
As Supreme Court Hears Case, Does Law Do Enough to Fix Health Crisis?
…ago. But although support for the health care law is often equated with backing the expansion of health care coverage for all Americans, there are some who maintain the bill…
Fee-For-Service is Not the Problem
…are destructive to health care. Fragmentation in health care financing also impairs quality improvement efforts, which work best in a universal system. We need consolidation of health plans under an…
The Politics of Healthcare Reforms in US Presidential Elections
…with paying medical bills. And most of them had health insurance. None of the E.U. countries face this dramatic situation. Can the U.S. afford a comprehensive universal health care program?…
Our Health Care System at the Crossroads: Single Payer or Market Reform?
…costs of health care, working families increasingly find care and coverage unaffordable. In 2005, 18% of middle-income adults lacked health insurance for at least part of the year, up from…
The Moral-Hazard Myth (New Yorker)
…Savings Accounts are not a variant of universal health care. In their governing assumptions, they are the antithesis of universal health care. The issue about what to do with the…
Health Insurance Compromise – Virtue or Vice?
Today is a special and long HJM. Chen et al propose an insurance reform middle ground between a fully free market and universal coverage. Yet with compromise comes complexity – a tough lesson surely learned in the US. Following Uwe Reinhardt’s vision that poor & rich have equal access to health leads us to single payer: care for everyone, while saving money overall. On Valentine’s Day, this seems a powerful message of love for America.
…their own health care coverage, which is similar to other nations, individuals believe their own health care costs are the most urgent health care problem. A second reality is the…
Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008
…capacity to innovate and improve is fundamental to a high-performing health care system. It includes: * a care system that supports a skilled and motivated health care workforce, with an…
JAMA Editor: Rationing of Health Care in the United States
Rationing of Health Care in the United States: An Inevitable Consequence of Increasing Health Care Costs
…and renewed interest in the inextricable link between social determinants of health and health outcomes. Disentangling and differentiating among health disparities, health outcomes, rationing of care, health equity, population health,…
The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting
…health care. See “McCain, Obama, and the National Health,” The New York Review, November 6, 2008. [2]A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care: A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients…
The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting
…health care. See “McCain, Obama, and the National Health,” The New York Review, November 6, 2008. [2]A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care: A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients…
The Only Way to Fix U.S. Health Care
The evidence confirms what our patients regard as common sense: copays and deductibles cause people to skip needed care and hence suffer poorer health, and even mortal consequences
…Health Care by Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein “We take it back,” Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, two of America’s most prominent health economists, declare in a new book, We’ve…
