…advertising campaigns, the Medicare Rights Center and newspapers report that brokers and agents, some of them claiming to be from Medicare, are convincing beneficiaries to switch from traditional Medicare and…
Groups pushing Medicare reform will weaken system
…– at the expense of Medicare and your health. The “front group,” invented by the late father of public relations, Edward Bernays, is the quintessential tool of deceptive propaganda, says…
Testimony by Dr. Johnathon S Ross, Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program in Support of HR 676
…on sale. Would you have two? The most expensive surgery or medical care is the least optional, predictable or negotiable. The sickest 10% of patients generate 73% of the health…
See SICKO! And Learn about Private Health Insurance
…on short-term results, not on the long-term health of their enrollees (especially since these people are likely to change insurers and eventually switch to Medicare). Moreover, in marketing their products…
Single-payer healthcare advocate Johnathon Ross M.D., M.P.H. takes a local look at the national HMO crisis
…to control healthcare costs, imagine open-heart surgery is on sale. Would you have two? The most expensive surgery or medical care is the least optional, predictable or negotiable. The sickest…
Single-payer coverage already works in U.S.
…reserved for a system where the government owns the hospitals and the physicians are civil servants. Rather, a single-payer arrangement combines a private health care delivery system with public financing…
The Health Care America Wants
…defer to the central government.” But most Americans are now forced either to defer to the profit-seeking H.M.O. their employer chooses, or to switch jobs (which is certainly not as…
Why a Single-payer Health Care System Would Be Good for Counties
…governments. But a public single-payer system, similar to but more inclusive than Medicare, is the solution with public financing but largely private delivery of health care.10 All legal residents would…
Democrats get infusion of campaign money from health care
…workers to provide coverage or contribute 6 percent of payroll toward a public program on one end of the spectrum, to Republican Fred Thompson’s call to “divorce [the] complete dependence…
Taiwan: Surprising Lessons From a Small Island
…policy community, and the role U.S. academics played in Taiwan’s adoption in 1995 of single-payer health care. The academics’ enthusiasm for the single-payer approach endures more than a dozen years…
Canada fights privatization
Self-interest over public interest
…in publicly funded settings. Why would patients pay extra if waiting lists are under control in publicly funded hospitals and out-patient clinics? They would not. For-profit clinics prosper only so…
Symposium on public policy and health in the Trump era
Dean's Symposium: The Trump Administration and the Health of the Public
Cosponsored with The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era Boston University School of Public Health, May 8, 2018 The day brought together public health scholars,…
