…these same drugs. Clearly, when quality is controlled, the private sector brings us much higher prices than does the government. Under a single payer national health program – an improved…
‘Essential benefits’ are pretty skimpy
…insurance policies are just one example. Single-payer health insurance, an improved and expanded Medicare plan for everyone, would remove corporate influence and greed from our health care insurance system, be…
Lesson for Congress: Medicare Advantage
…Cancun, Mexico. http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1851:new-report-highlights-medicare-advantage-insurers-higher-administrative-spending&catid=122:media-advisories&Itemid=55 Full report: http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20091209/MedicareAdvantageReport120909.pdf Congress and the Obama administration decided up front that reform would be based on private insurance plans, rejecting without consideration the single payer Medicare…
Lesson for Congress: Medicare Advantage
New Report Highlights Medicare Advantage Insurersā Higher Administrative Spending
…McCanne, MD Congress and the Obama administration decided up front that reform would be based on private insurance plans, rejecting without consideration the single payer Medicare for all model. They…
Celebrate Medicareās birthday by covering everyone
…our new Medicare for All by eliminating profiteering by the private health insurance industry and slashing the system-wide administrative waste they generate, with a single streamlined, nonprofit public payer health…
Government funds nearly two-thirds of U.S. health care costs: American Journal of Public Health study
Contrary to popular perceptions, taxpayers fund 64 percent of U.S. health care, more public dollars per capita than the citizens of other nations ā including those with universal health programs
…Woolhandler are co-founders and leaders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a nonprofit organization that advocates for a single-payer health system. PNHP had no role in funding their study….
Immigrants use little health care, may help subsidize care of non-immigrants: Harvard/Tufts researchers
New study finds that immigrants pay more money into both private and public health insurance programs than they take out
…healthier than native-born Americans, which benefits the American health care economy. But to maintain their health over the long term, new immigrants — and all Americans — need access to…
Medicare Advantage as the true Medicare? Rhetoric won’t make it so
Creating Medicare Advantage Premium Support For All, Part 5: Which Proposal Is Actually Medicare?
By Billy Wynne Health Affairs Blog, August 15, 2018 Now that a report funded by the Koch Brothers™ (do they have a logo?) accidentally fueled the single payer movement by…
Ask Medicaid-eligible individuals what a work requirement would do
Medicaid Recipientsā Early Experience With the Arkansas Medicaid Work Requirement
…designed, single payer, improved Medicare for all would take care of it. We do not need the injection of screwball ideas based on sterile ideology rather than benevolent compassion. As…
Half of registered Republicans now support providing Medicare to every American
Majority of Republicans supports 'Medicare for all,' poll finds
By Julia Manchester The Hill, October 22, 2018 More than half of Republicans in a new American Barometer poll say they support “Medicare for all,” also known as a single-payer…
For-profit home care agencies cost Medicare billions extra, yet provide worse care: Health Affairs study
…(mark@pnhp.org) or Sue Ducat at Health Affairs (sducat@projecthope.org). **** Physicians for a National Health Program, www.pnhp.org, is a nonprofit educational and research organization of 19,000 doctors who support single-payer national…
ACA adding billions to health care bureaucratic waste: study
Initial $6 billion in start-up costs of exchanges pale beside $273.6 billion in extra insurance overhead from 2014 through 2022, researchers say
…figure associated with the ACA to drop to traditional Medicare’s level, the U.S. would save $249.3 billion by 2022, they say. The overhead rates of universal, single-payer systems such as…
