…dollars annually opposing both a public option and Medicare for All in federal election campaigns. In 2020, the American College of Physicians and the Society of General Internal Medicine went…
Hold out for single payer
…The “Public Option” Fails as Health Politics: Single-Payer “Public Option” Number Insured Universal Coverage Millions remain uninsured or underinsured Coverage Coverage for all medically necessary services. Insurers continue to…
Hold out for single payer
…The “Public Option” Fails as Health Politics: Single-Payer “Public Option” Number Insured Universal Coverage Millions remain uninsured or underinsured Coverage Coverage for all medically necessary services. Insurers continue to…
Changing provider networks when enrollment periods are closed
…game the system through bait and switch of their provider networks, but Andy Slavitt, the acting CMS administrator, stated that he will not open up enrollment for these victims of…
Changing provider networks when enrollment periods are closed
…switch of their provider networks, but Andy Slavitt, the acting CMS administrator, stated that he will not open up enrollment for these victims of bait and switch. Really, is cracking…
Anthem Blue Cross forcing PPO patients into EPOs
Anthem is cutting out-of-network health coverage in a ‘bait and switch,’ lawsuit says By Melody Petersen Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2016 On the first day of Obamacare open enrollment,…
GAO: Private health insurance markets are increasingly concentrated
Private Health Insurance Markets Remained Concentrated through 2018, with Increases in the Individual and Small Group Markets
…plans to adopt policies that benefit them financially and not patients. Such lack of competition encourages plans to pull a bait-and-switch on patients: delaying and denying medically necessary care that…
Does a public option bring down costs for patients? But which patients?
Would the addition of a public option to the US health care system bring down costs for patients?
…public option would leave the current dysfunctional payment approach in place, it would sacrifice most of the savings available via single-payer reform. I’m not opposed to having a public option…
William Hsiao's single payer proposal for Vermont
Statement by William C. Hsiao
…in PPACA is grossly inadequate and needs to be replaced. The authors’ Option 2 is essentially PPACA with a “public option” added – a public insurance plan that competes with…
Health Reform and Social Justice: Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health Disparities
Presentation by Dr. Susan Rogers
…any kind of health reform, Public Option, anything? How would that be able to be change, do you think? Dr. Rogers: If we got rid of the for-profit system, there…
What is a ‘public option’? And why does it matter?
…public plan. The existence of a public option would drive the insurance companies to compete by limiting their premiums and improving coverage. Were the public option to be successful, proponents…
The Single-Payer Alternative
…to surrender the public option–yet. The advice was to try and trade away the public option for Republican votes. Meanwhile the public option, as a posture, has lured progressives and…
