…American health system was not always a laggard. In the 1970s our costs and outcomes were very similar to Canada’s. But then the Canadians passed single-payer, universal health care. Today,…
Can churning be eliminated with a patch?
…in care. A well designed single payer system – an improved Medicare for all – would provide stable health care coverage for life – totally eliminating churning. The savings from…
Uwe Reinhardt: Support for traditional Medicare is based on trust
…manipulating the system to their benefit. That is, Congress should provide us with an improved Medicare so that it can become the benchmark for a single payer national health program….
When competition isn’t working, FDA’s Gottlieb recommends more competition
Capturing the Benefits of Competition for Patients
…has produced some misaligned incentives. The top three PBMs control more than two-thirds of the market; the top three wholesalers more than 80%; and the top five pharmacies more than…
Only ‘Medicare for All’ can fix our broken health-care system
…root cause of our system failure is the private insurance industry and its wasteful bureaucratic complexity, fragmentation and profit motive. We desperately need a streamlined single-payer program that would provide…
Work requirements and health savings accounts in Medicaid
New Approaches In Medicaid: Work Requirements, Health Savings Accounts, And Health Care Access
…in our dysfunctional multi-payer system. Why we continue this insanity is perplexing when we know that we could institute a streamlined, highly efficient single payer national health program by improving…
Physician outcry on EHR functionality and costs
…a model that has been proven to be effective in controlling costs – a single payer national health program or “Improved Medicare for All.” If we had such a system…
Uwe Reinhardt on community rating and risk equalization in other nations
…remain the golden standard of a single payer national health program – an improved Medicare program that includes everyone. The single payer model has unique features, not found in an…
CMS health spending projections
…government is already using taxpayer funds to finance about two-thirds of our national health expenditures (NHE). In a financing system that only Americans would design, a significant portion of those…
Effective comparative effectiveness research
…Our study showed that two-thirds of commercially funded randomized trials compared medications with a placebo rather than with another active therapy. Though placebos are appropriate when no alternative therapies are…
Another win for insurers
…well. Inevitable price increases by the insurance industry will expand the popularity of the single-payer movement. Ultimately we will have a national health insurance program. Single-payer health care is the…
Don’t wait for Atul Gawande
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase appoint Dr. Atul Gawande as Chief Executive Officer of their newly-formed company to address U.S. employee healthcare
…Single-Payer Hypothesis By Russell Mokhiber Common Dreams, February 10, 2015 As for (Gawande’s) opposition to single payer, he remains steadfast. In a q/a with New Yorker readers last week, Gawande…
