…with an increase in expenditures in public health. Don’t forget that public health currently only accounts for about 2.5 percent of total health-care spending. At Physicians for a National Health…
Racism, Chronic Disease, and Mental Health: Time to Change Our Racialized System of Second-Class Care
…All, is a publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare system, where government-run insurance replaces private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid (including Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Managed Care), and the Children’s Health Insurance Program,…
U.S. Health Care Spending: Where Is the Waste?
…between what the U.S. spends on health care administration and what countries with efficient universal systems spend.3,4 Administrative costs include health insurance administration (premiums collected minus payments to health care…
Placebo Politics
…infant mortality, childhood immunization rate–we do worse than most Western countries. The only plausible explanation is how health care is financed and delivered. The American health care system is staggeringly…
OECD Bias in Evaluating U.S. Health Care Reform
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Health Care Reform in the United States
…care delivery system, shifting costs to other payers. Especially threatened are the safety-net institutions. Most severely affected by health care affordability are the individuals with health care needs. Health care…
Reinhardt and Cheng: The ethical structure of sustainable health spending
…limited benefits) and tiering health care by income at the point of service (high deductibles, health savings accounts, and consumer-directed health care). Thus we are rationing health care by ability…
Saving on health care at the cost of people's health
Health care spending in the U.S. has slowed because fewer people can afford health services
…of health care, the cost of care, health disparities and the number of people without insurance have climbed. The U.S. spends more per capita on health care than any other…
Letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger
…from the many who are healthy to the few who have significant health care needs, but now, since health care costs are so high, risk pooling must also serve the…
Reinhardt and Cheng: The ethical structure of sustainable health spending
…subsidize through taxes or health insurance premiums the health care of families in the lower income strata. Total health spending is the product of health-care utilization and prices. Under our…
How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care
…their primary care doctors, who usually recommend the simplest and least expensive choices consistent with good medical care. However, today’s competitive health care market, with its private health insurance companies…
Will the Market Cure Our Health Care System?
What does AI tell us about the competing theories of free-marketism and a leading government role in paying for health care? An exploration of the philosophies of Kenneth Arrow, Milton Friedman, Elon Musk, and Bernie Sanders.
…charity voluntary philanthropy targeted subsidies He rejected health care as a “right.” Bottom Line: Arrow: Health care is inherently non-market – needs universal public funding. Friedman: Health care should be…
Obamacare: How It Should Be Fixed
…reductions in his health care program to meet demands for fiscal austerity. Of course, much will depend on future political events. Among the many recent publications on health care and…
