…which forced all of its employees to switch from an insurance plan that provided free health care to a non-linear, high deductible plan. The switch caused a spending reduction between…
"Behavioral economics" and "choice architecture"
For good behavior
…jerking patients around with perverse market tools, we need to switch to a public system that simply helps patients get the care that they need – an improved Medicare for…
High-need patients disenroll from private Medicare Advantage plans
Analysis of Drivers of Disenrollment and Plan Switching Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries
…high-need enrollees. Although some disenrollment may be driven by error in plan choice, MA switch to TM occurs at higher rates after significant health events and kidney failure. Evidence from…
Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
More than 1,500 physicians warn that the experiment threatens "the future of Medicare as we know it."
…public option. Weisbart told Common Dreams that while the creation of CMMI may have been well-intentioned, the body’s ability to “so fundamentally and radically transform a public health program that…
State barriers to Medigap cause patients to re-enroll in Medicare Advantage
Limited Medigap Consumer Protections Are Associated With Higher Reenrollment In Medicare Advantage Plans
…higher premiums on the basis of preexisting health conditions. This may particularly affect chronically ill or high-need Medicare Advantage enrollees who switch to traditional Medicare and subsequently discover that they…
Insurers That Squeeze Care are Killing Thousands of Enrollees Each Year
…county – forcing their enrollees to switch to a different plan – the mortality rate for those forced to switch went down. (Similarly, when low-mortality plans shut down, the mortality…
COVID-19 and Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities
…severely strained. While every country faces unique challenges responding to this serious public health threat,2,3 the US’ underfunded public health infrastructure, fragmented medical care system, and paltry social protections have…
COVID-19 and Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities
…severely strained. While every country faces unique challenges responding to this serious public health threat,2,3 the US’ underfunded public health infrastructure, fragmented medical care system, and paltry social protections have…
Why the ‘public option’ is not a real solution to our health care woes
…public option. And PNHP has developed a table, below, that contrasts the public option with single payer. (This table can also be viewed as a PDF, here.) Other noted health…
What about Sen. Brian Schatzās proposal for a Medicaid buy-in?
…the conversation has turned to disturbingly inadequate proposals such as the public option or buying into a public program. It is not that even minimally beneficial measures should be opposed,…
Himmelstein and Woolhandler on a public plan option
Public Plan Option in a Market of Private Plans By David Himmelstein, M.D. and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.: The “public plan option” won’t work to fix the health care system…
Blog debate – PNHP versus HCAN reform strategy
…competing, public Medicare-like option. In theory, the public option would be a better value, and the private plans would fade away as individuals opt to change to the new Medicare…
