…reasons, have had the NHS – traditionally publicly funded, publicly delivered and publicly accountable – in their sights for some time. They have acted together, beneath the radar, to turn…
Hospital-sponsored study of Medicare-X Choice Act
The Impact of Medicare-X Choice on Coverage, Healthcare Use, and Hospitals
…plan in the baseline. While most of the enrollment in the public plan comes from those previously with ESI, the public plan take-up rate is highest (67%) among those with…
Health Reform: Where Obama Went Wrong
by Leonard Rodberg Tikkun Magazine November/December 2009 President Obama’s health reform plan is in trouble. Public support for it is only lukewarm; both Left and Right oppose it. Pundits and…
CBO: Achieving near-universal coverage
Policies to Achieve Near-Universal Health Insurance Coverage
…plan or a new public option. Approach 2. A multipayer system that retains employment-based coverage and replaces the current nongroup market and the acute care portions of Medicaid and the…
Point / Counterpoint: The State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021
PNHP leaders weigh in on Rep. Ro Khanna's legislation and the push for state-based single payer
…the current pandemic has demonstrated, we must also have a system that encourages policy-based investments in public health, whether in a national or state-based system—that only public funding can achieve….
"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…
Woolhandler and Himmelstein on competition and public funds
Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system
…plans, with perhaps a public insurance option. As this article states, “public-private competition means that private firms carve out the profitable niches, leaving a financially depleted public sector responsible for…
An International Perspective on Health Care Reform
…tax, and public funds for the unemployed, disabled and retired. They have little or no resemblance to American for-profit insurers. They are not publicly traded companies with a fiduciary responsibility…
New poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care
Group says advocates of private system are out of touch with most Canadians
…overwhelming support — 86.2 percent — for strengthening public health care rather than expanding for-profit services. “With more than 8 in 10 Canadians supporting public solutions to make public health…
Local physician condemns healthcare reform plans now before Congress
…customers.” In addition, she said that the “public option” in either bill had been so watered down as to be “meaningless.” (The inclusion of any kind of public option is…
Response to TNR's Jonathan Cohn
Disputations: Is Single-Payer Health Care The Best Option?
…control of spending are what limit the political feasibility of the single payer model, but the private plans/public option model would have to incorporate the same principles, and their advocates…
Reversing Vertical Merger-Mania in Health Care
Insurer ownership of clinical practices distorts US health care, enabling profit-taking from government funds, patients, and independent providers. A new report outlines policy and regulatory actions to reverse these trends, consistent with progressive Biden administration anti-trust philosophy and with single payer.
…could get insurers (e.g., Medicare Advantage) out of the business of widespread prior authorization and claims adjudication, instead operating like traditional Medicare. Rooke-Ley also advocates for a “public option” Medicare…
