Author Frequently asked questions. 531 items The Flawed Corporate Health Care Model December 15, 2024 The CEO of UnitedHealth Group wants to fix our “flawed, patchwork” health system by partnering with others. But there’s a deep paradox here: how can the fundamental weakness of the system – for-profit corporate control – be at the center of a solution? Choice Among Private Insurance Options Isn’t Real Choice November 27, 2024 The new Commonwealth survey of health insurance reveals persistent failings in coverage and access. The myth of “choice” in health insurance should be ended, in favor of real choice – of providers, enabled by excellent universal public insurance. New Government: Time to Revisit Single Payer? November 21, 2024 Our fragmented, predominantly private health insurance serves corporations and shareholders, at the expense of financial affordability for patients. This is nothing new, but it’s worsening. What’s new is the shake-up of politics. Let’s insist on shaking up our failed insurance. The Single Solution for a Myriad of Health Care Challenges October 31, 2024 Esteemed medical academics are adept at documenting and debating the failings of our health care system. Yet they fail to focus on the technically superior insurance solution used around the world. Our job is to bring US public discussion and policy action to single payer. ACA Open Enrollment = Confusion + Scams October 15, 2024 It’s ACA enrollment season again! Another opportunity to contemplate / navigate complex insurance plan changes and choices, and try to avoid come-ons for non-ACA products that provide minimal coverage -- scams. Ah, if we just had universal coverage with identical comprehensive benefits, durable from year to year, indeed lifelong. Single payer. Investors a Terrible Steward of Health Care October 3, 2024 The US Senate placed in contempt the CEO of bankrupt Steward Health Care when he refused to testify about the abusive finances that left investors enriched and the provider organization in financial tatters. Health care should not be driven by investor profit motives. UK National Health Service Resuscitation Implications for the US September 19, 2024 In the United Kingdom, the first Labor government in 14 years must deal with Conservative fiscal and policy neglect of the National Health Service. This serves as a tough reminder of the US need for a durable social consensus on a public solution to our health care crisis. Saving Private Practice August 31, 2024 The American Medical Association (the AMA) is pleading with Congress to save teetering independent medical practice. Of course, one ask is higher pay. But equity and lower administrative burden are right up there. Is organized medicine finally supporting single payer? Public Opinion on Health Reform August 21, 2024 New polling in swing states on priorities for health care reform and related issues shows wide support for reducing the financial burdens of health care and for … wait … here it comes … Medicare for All. Cost-Sharing, Coverage Denials, Missed Care, & Medical Debt August 6, 2024 The Commonwealth Fund, a respected monitor of US health system performance, highlights how cost-sharing and coverage denials lead to widespread missed care and medical debt. The system is unfair and opaque. Administrative tweaks won’t resolve these problems for private insurance designed to benefit executives and shareholders at the expense of patients. Posts pagination 1 2 3 … 54 Older
