Author Frequently asked questions. 525 items Posts navigation Newer 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 … 53 Older Lown Institute: Hospitals and civic leadership July 7, 2020 By Sharon Begley STAT, July 7, 2020 You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at the top of a new ranking of U.S. hospitals. That’s because the rating system relies not just on traditional quality measures, but also on a hospital’s community-minded policies and avoidance of unnecessary care. […] Quote of the Day The pharmaceutical industry: Gouging perfected July 6, 2020 The United States is the only developed nation unable to balance cost, efficacy and social good in setting prices. By Elisabeth Rosenthal The New York Times, July 6, 2020 The last vaccine to quell a global viral scourge was the polio inoculation, which ended outbreaks that killed thousands and paralyzed tens of thousands each year […] Quote of the Day The erosion of public health July 2, 2020 Kaiser Health News/Associated Press, July 1, 2020 Local and state public health departments across the country work to ensure that people in their communities have healthy water to drink, their restaurants don’t serve contaminated food and outbreaks of infectious diseases don’t spread. Those departments now find themselves at the forefront of fighting the coronavirus pandemic. […] Quote of the Day Obtaining consensus on competing health reform preferences July 1, 2020 By Adrianna McIntyre, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Mary G. Findling, Eric C. Schneider Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, No. 5, October 2020 Abstract Ten years after its enactment, public support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) still only reaches a scant majority. Candidates for the presidency—and the sitting president—have […] Quote of the Day John Geyman: Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care June 30, 2020 Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care By John Geyman, M.D. From the Preface We have to raise, and answer, who is health care for – for corrupt and fraudulent scammers or patients and their families? This book has four parts: (1) to bring historical perspective to the changes that have transformed U.S. health […] Quote of the Day ACA has not and will not resolve key health care issues June 29, 2020 By Sayeh Nikpay, India Pungarcher, Austin Frakt Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, No. 5, October 2020 Published online June 19, 2020 Abstract Through the 2000s, high health care spending and growing numbers of uninsured were widely viewed as public policy crises. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) attempts to address both. At […] Quote of the Day Private equity in the medical-industrial complex June 26, 2020 By Isaac Arnsdorf ProPublica, June 12, 2020 In 2017, TeamHealth, the nation’s largest staffing firm for ER doctors, sued a small insurance company in Texas over a few million dollars of disputed bills. Over 2 1/2 years of litigation, the case has provided a rare look inside TeamHealth’s own operations at a time when the […] Quote of the Day Resistance to admitting failure of alternative payment models June 25, 2020 By Amol S. Navathe, M.D., Ph.D.; Connor W. Boyle, B.A.; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. JAMA, June 22, 2020 The US health care system requires major changes to make health care more affordable and higher quality. In the decade since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alternative payment models have become […] Quote of the Day Health care is drowning in transparent neoliberalism June 24, 2020 By John E. McDonough The Milbank Quarterly, June 24, 2020 For some years I’ve pondered a Commonwealth Fund chart showing the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) for health care comparing the United States with 10 other high income nations, starting in 1980 and ending in 2018. It shows that 40 years ago, US spending […] Quote of the Day Americans want the option of a government-regulated and -subsidized health plan June 23, 2020 Commonwealth Fund Health Care Poll: COVID-19, May–June 2020 By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, Gabriella N. Aboulafia, Erin Czyzewicz, Christian H. Kline, Robyn Rapoport, and Sarah Glancey The Commonwealth Fund, June 23, 2020 What do Americans think of providing people who have employer coverage with a new option to buy insurance on their own? […] Quote of the Day Posts navigation Newer 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 … 53 Older