…care options shrink, the struggle in Los Angeles hospitals could be the future for health care throughout California. In Los Angeles, the traditional emergency-room patient — the heart attack victim,…
Medicine’s Middlemen
…get from the suppliers. “In a few cases, Premier or some of its officials have also received stock or options from companies with which Premier contracts. “Critics say such conflicts…
Should we require providers to accept Medicaid?
California’s Public Hospitals Face New Medi-Cal Mandate By Pauline Bartolone California Healthline, August 4, 2016 Public hospitals in California will be required to contract with at least one Medi-Cal managed…
Health policy experts versus everyone else: Why do the experts believe themselves?
…the public, there is an astonishing lack of dialogue.” [p. 8] http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/14/1/7.full.pdf+html?sid=fa42b8… The problem, said Yankelovich, is the public does not agree with the experts’ diagnosis of the health care…
Another Green Flag for Single Payer
…characterize the VA system as a publicly owned, publicly funded health system, analogous to the Scottish National Health Service, in order to distinguish it from a privately owned but publicly…
Amartya Sen on government austerity
…revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services.” Participatory public discussion — the “government by discussion” expounded…
The End Of Insurance?
Andrew Coates On Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
…of all its citizens, not just the poor and elderly. A public, national health-insurance program would eliminate the need for private health insurance altogether. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders made support…
Health debate energizing Tucson ‘Medicare for All’ proponents
…publicly funded health care was considered for inclusion in the national Social Security Act. The public appears to be gaining a new understanding of what it means, says Dr. George…
Should we require providers to accept Medicaid?
California’s Public Hospitals Face New Medi-Cal Mandate By Pauline Bartolone California Healthline, August 4, 2016 Public hospitals in California will be required to contract with at least one Medi-Cal managed…
What is Meant by ‘Single-Payer’ in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
…their premiums, the overwhelming funding of health services is public. Why, if health funding is public, do we still have the situation I described? This situation exists because the majority…
Managed cost, mismanaged care
…public policy to fully open the door. Managed care as public policy: the political origins According to Theodore Marmor, a professor emeritus of both political science and public policy and…
California example of pending safety net collapse
California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems On the Brink: How the Crisis in California’s Public Hospitals Threatens Access to Care for Millions California’s public hospitals and health systems…
