…change. Respondents proposed ideas for reform ranging from changing payment structures, reducing cost of care, incentivizing healthy behaviors, reforming health insurance, to shifting toward a socialized or single payer approach…
Financial burden on Medicare households
…supplemental coverage (such as Medigap and retiree health plans), was about two-thirds (65.4%) of Medicare households’ average health care spending in 2012, and 9.1% of Medicare household spending overall. Medical…
The only way out
…or deride them. The only way out of our currently costly and shameful health care quagmire is single-payer, tax-supported, improved Medicare for all. Medicare is a tax supported single-payer plan…
Physician outcry on EHR functionality and costs
…of Congress have before them a model that has been proven to be effective in controlling costs – a single payer national health program or “Improved Medicare for All.” If…
Doctor favors a single-payer health care system
…a system would also provide more predictable future costs. Only through a single-payer model can we establish a business case for improving the health of all Americans. With everyone (including…
Which metal tier plans are people selecting, and why?
…already enrolled in Covered California – California’s insurance exchange established under the Affordable Care Act – over two-thirds of those who were eligible for subsidies purchased silver plans, whereas well…
Maine Medical Association survey shows 64 percent support single payer
…of those respondents who answered the question. The nearly two-thirds who indicated the single-payer preference represents an increase from the previous membership survey in 2008, in which just over half…
Explaining regional variation in private health care spending
…address the problem of excess quantity. Our objection to all-payer systems is that they address only this one issue and leave out the many other advantages of a single payer…
Life disruptions from high out-of-pocket health expenditures
…investigates the range of social, medical, financial, and sometimes legal disruptions from high out-of-pocket health expenses. METHODS We conducted open-ended, semistructured interviews with 33 insured patients (two-thirds covered by Medicare)….
Drug sales reps now pushing hospitals
…large, when they are being offered lucrative opportunities to practice in a more physician-friendly environment? Under a well designed single payer system, capital improvements would be based on regional planning…
The Senate’s ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017’
…following through on the surge of support for single payer reform that has been escalating this past year. Even if the bill fails, the numbers who remain uninsured, the financial…
Complexity of annual enrollment decisions
…everyone. That would eliminate these enrollment headaches. Everyone would be secure with the knowledge that a single payer Improved Medicare for All would eliminate the instability and uncertainties inflicted on…
