…the delivery of care are also corrected. In fact, expansion of insurance benefits without this other reform would probably make matters even worse. A so-called “public option” will not solve…
Soft-pedaling reform
…organized by FamiliesUSA. The Herndon Alliance, which presented the research, is a low-profile group that coordinated liberal messaging in favor of the public option in health care. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41271.html And… Implementing…
Public sector workers now seeing deterioration in their health plans
Public sector workers paying more of their health care costs By Bobby Caina Calvan The Sacramento Bee July 15, 2010 Workers in private industry have felt the sting of rising…
Lesson for U.S.: Canada's Medicare remains fully sustainable
Neat, Plausible, and Wrong: The Myth of Health Care Unsustainability
…between physicians, other health practitioners, public policy decisionāmakers and the public, regardless of their political outlooks, focused not on rehashing the public/private debate that Canadians have settled countless times, but…
Uwe Reinhardt on The Perennial Quest to Lower Health Care Spending
…down the future trajectory of public-sector fees (Pg) will be met with outcries: (1) that hospitals and doctors will be driven into bankruptcy; (2) that publicly-insured individuals will lose access…
Lesson for U.S.: Canada’s Medicare remains fully sustainable
…not part of Medicare, such as public health, publicly funded dental care and prescription drugs, have risen faster than Medicare spending alone so that total public spending on health care…
Declines in preventable deaths linked to increases in public health spending
Evidence Links Increases In Public Health Spending To Declines In Preventable Deaths By Glen P. Mays, and Sharla A. Smith Health Affairs, July 21, 2011 Public health activities in the…
Howard Waitzkin on commodification and the search for a universal health program
…buy it must either rely on limited public assistance or go without care. In very real terms, it’s not just health care that we have turned into a commodity, it’s…
CATHOLIC HOSPITAL SYSTEMS: A GROWING THREAT TO ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES
…serve the public interest above their private religious interests? Many Catholic hospitals have a long tradition of public service in both patient care and medical education, and have often been…
Blog postings from the Campaign for America’s Future
…does not really answer that question. He builds his coverage-for-all plan around both private insurers and a public, Medicare-like system, claiming that the public’s choices could eventually lead to the…
Linking campaign financing to what’s wrong with the health care system
…public funding of political campaigns, like the system promoted by Public Campaign and Wisconsin Clean Elections Coalition, would cost $10 per taxpayer per year at the federal level and would…
Canadian Medical Association’s proposal for Medicare Plus
…publicly insured services by the private sector, it is critical that the integrity of the public system is maintained and that Medicare remain the cornerstone of Canadian health care. The…
