…And… Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission (California) Funding Pensions and Retiree Health Care for Public Employees On December 28, 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger established the Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission…
Letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger
…Administration, military health care, US Public Health Service, Indian Health Service, other public hospitals and clinics, insurance programs provided by taxpayers for public employees including FEHBP and CalPERS, the tax…
Shorter waiting times in Ireland's public system
…in some instances her public waiting list is actually shorter than her private waiting list. “For some neurological conditions people can actually be seen more quickly in the public sector….
PNHP Newsletter: Fall 2023
…and Gaurav Kalwani, each gave an overview on the best tactics to use when speaking to physicians, members of the public, and policymakers about MA. Below are some of the…
Do we need private solutions to control queues?
…establish more specialized short-stay surgical clinics within the public sector. These clinics provide the efficiencies that private clinics have capitalized on, without siphoning public dollars to shareholders. * Lessons learned…
Public system in Alberta reduces queues
…support and a market for their private medical enterprises. Under such a scenario, the vested interests are motivated to expand further the queues within the public system. Privatization makes public…
Privatising the NHS
…to be adequate? The British don’t need privatization; they need more public funds. Americans don’t need more funds; we need public administration with equitable public pooling of our existing funds….
Public-utility model of health care reform
…with strict public control and address the public’s biggest concern: affordability. Such a model would appoint an independent commission to implement a three-part plan: — Cost control and stability: The…
Adam Gaffney explains why we don’t need private health insurance
We Don’t Need Private Health Insurance
…that provide benefits for services not covered by the public system? As Sarah Kliff of Vox notes, in Canada, the public system doesn’t offer universal drug benefits or dental care,…
The public’s view of high health care costs
POLITICO, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, March 2019 PART I: REASONS FOR THE NATION’S HIGH HEALTH CARE COSTS The Public’s Views about the Reasons for High Health Care…
We Found the $2 Trillion
Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. But the waste in the system goes to elites like him. Here’s a better way to bring down deficits.
…That’s the opposite of the alleged efficiency goal. Or take what Public Citizen co-president Rob Weissman calls “policymaking by anecdote.” Musk’s brain-poisoned antipathy to anything that sounds woke led him…
Trump Administration’s proposed public charge immigration rules likely to harm millions of children: JAMA Pediatrics study
The study is the first to examine the impact of the proposed change on children with significant medical needs
…Department of Homeland Security’s ‘public charge’ rule on children with significant medical needs. Researchers found that between 0.8 million and 1.9 million such children currently enrolled in public health insurance…
