Summary: To achieve a healthy nation, we need not only single payer healthcare, but also robust public health practice. During COVID, an already underfunded and understaffed public health system suffered…
Australia's Medicare and private plans
The private life of health care
…campaign to push Australians into private health insurance and exacerbated by difficulties in finding care in public hospitals, the balance has tipped in favour of private hospitals. Our system is…
Moral Injury in Medicine
…to reclaim health care as a public good and to further a vision of health care as a human right. Study Limitations This study contributes to the growing literature on…
As Supreme Court Hears Case, Does Law Do Enough to Fix Health Crisis?
…at the Harvard School of Public Health, director of the New Center for Public Leadership. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a senior adviser on national health reform to…
Jonathan Bernstein: “Public opinion is an incoherent mess”
…polled well. Moreover caution is always in order with issue polling. When these kinds of polls show public opinion fractured, it’s tempting to believe that one side or the other…
Australia’s Medicare and private plans
…Abstract (Nichol): http://www.aushealthreview.com.au/publications/articles/issues/ahr_31_1_0407/ahr_31_1_s004.asp International Journal of Epidemiology – Abstract (Korda et al): http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dyl282v1 Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Australia’s experiment with a public Medicare program and private insurance plans has…
“Covering the Uninsured” – Strengthening employer-based coverage?
…these goals. A publicly administered program of universal insurance would establish equity and efficiency while providing affordability. The public needs to understand that. Let’s all work together to be sure…
Health reform and the economic collapse of the United States: A wake up call to health reform activists
…economic debacle in the fall of 2008. The only major public figure who confessed to a failure of ideology was Alan Greenspan. No other main stream political leader or public…
More about the crisis of lack of interoperability
A private health care information technology system
…support clinician adoption of HIT, provide interoperability, and enhance the value realized by these investments. Close collaboration between public and private sectors can develop new methods for improving care without…
Trump’s Pervasive Assault on America’s Health
The recent federal budget bill slashed $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare. Yet the Trump administration’s attack on health regulations and research extends much further, undoing decades of proven capacity to save lives and reduce disease. We must harness discontent with this assault on health to rebuild and improve the system.
…polls indicate, health is perhaps Trump’s weakest suit with the general public; most Americans favor more funding for science and public health, as well as universal coverage. Comment: By Jim…
Greece's crucial lessons on austerity and health
Economic Crisis, Restrictive Policies, and the Population’s Health and Health Care: The Greek Case
…to have identified an important stylized fact, that public debt loads greater than 90 percent of GDP consistently reduce GDP growth. http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04deaa6388b1/publication/566/ Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Greece’s austerity program,…
A Productive Life of Caring
…the segregated health system in Chicago. 10 American Public Health Association (APHA) Quentin’s leadership extended way beyond Chicago and Illinois. He served as president of the American Public Health Association…
