Author Frequently asked questions. 528 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 … 53 Older Walgreens and Walmart enter the fray July 10, 2020 By Melissa Repko CNBC, July 8, 2020 Walgreens Boots Alliance will soon have doctor offices inside of hundreds of its U.S. drugstores. The pharmacy chain said Wednesday it has struck a deal with VillageMD, which will staff and run the primary-care clinics. The companies said they will open the clinics in 500 to 700 stores […] Quote of the Day Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force fails to unify on Medicare for All July 9, 2020 Achieving Universal, Affordable, Quality Health Care (Pages 28-37) (Excerpts) We are going to at last build the health care system the American people have always deserved: One that finally provides universal health care coverage; reduces prescription drug prices, premiums, and out-of-pocket costs; reins in overall health care expenses; and tackles the deep-seated inequities in our […] Quote of the Day Adam Gaffney: Reinventing health planning July 8, 2020 We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally planned according to the needs of communities—and the certainty of future disasters. By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H. Dissent, Summer 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, my life as a critical care physician […] Quote of the Day 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 Posts pagination Newer 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 … 53 Older
