Author Frequently asked questions. 534 items Posts pagination Newer 1 2 3 4 … 54 Older 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. Medicare for All Prospects in a New Presidential Administration July 23, 2024 Medicare for All received partial and ambiguous endorsement in the past by one presidential candidate. The major challenge ahead is achieving overwhelming and irresistible public support for the pure single payer system we need. Urgent Care Price Gaming June 18, 2024 A simple xray at a basic urgent care clinic is inexpensive, right? Not when owners exploit payment rules to charge sky-high hospital prices for a service delivered in the mall. Gaming the system is the name of the game for our current profit-obsessed health care system. Time to switch to single payer! Medical Debt, US Pandemic June 13, 2024 Medical debt is widespread in the US. This video reviews causes and consequences. And considers solutions. Single payer would end medical debt. Health Care Cost Burden for Privately Insured June 3, 2024 Among the privately insured, the average costs of health care – premiums and out-of-pocket – are rising, and for low-income families represent more than a quarter of income not dedicated to food. So much for financial protection. Surgeon General Misses the Diagnosis: Terminally Ill Insurance Structure May 22, 2024 Saddled with a massive bill for an emergency room visit, a former US Surgeon General (under Trump) calls for tweaks to our market-model skin-in-the-game insurance. Sadly, he misses the diagnosis: our insurance morass is moribund, can’t be saved. Only a complete reboot can achieve universal protection. That’s what a Surgeon General should be fighting for. Insured Percent Up; Care Affordability Plunging May 18, 2024 The Affordable Care Act raised insured rates. But … at the expense (pun intended!) of sharply rising, burdensome, and worrisome out-of-pocket costs: massive deductibles and copays, inflated prices for drugs, and denied services. Our fragmented profit-extracting insurance model is fixable only with a structural makeover – single payer. The Synergy of Clinical and Social Care in the US May 11, 2024 Eric Reinhart, a thoughtful commentator on the need for patient-oriented transformation of our health care system, now broadens his (and our) view to the critical need to also address fundamental social-economic needs. Posts pagination Newer 1 2 3 4 … 54 Older
