Author Frequently asked questions. 534 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 32 33 34 35 36 … 54 Older Nevada’s Culinary Union opposes Medicare for All to the detriment of their members February 13, 2020 By Kate Sullivan CNN, February 12, 2020 The influential Culinary Union distributed a flier that says Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would “End Culinary Healthcare” if elected president of the United States. The flier, obtained by CNN on Tuesday, outlines where the leading 2020 Democratic candidates stand on health care, immigration and “Good Jobs.” It singles […] Quote of the Day Medicare for All could also provide pay increases for workers February 12, 2020 Financing Medicare for All By Gabriel Zucman January 24, 2020 Full private funding of health care is impossible because of its high costs Premiums for employer-sponsored plans are a privatized poll tax A tax because it’s mandatory (over 50 employees) and reduces wages A poll tax because all pay the same regardless of income A […] Quote of the Day The rhetorical abuse of ‘Mandatory Medicare for All’ February 11, 2020 Corporate Crime Reporter, February 10, 2020 National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson this weekend entered a new term into the corporate liberal establishment’s attack on single payer healthcare. Mandatory Medicare for All. As in — do you want Bernie Sanders’ Mandatory Medicare for All — or Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Voluntary Medicare for Those Who Want It? […] Quote of the Day UCSF Symposium at Berkeley: “Medicare-for-All: How to Do it Right” – Videos and ppt February 10, 2020 UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences UC Berkeley, January 24, 2020 In this colloquium, we gather leaders in Medicare-for-All design from the U.S. along with international health system experts. The discussion will review current plans in Congress and from candidates, and will highlight the best approaches and trickiest issues in implementing Medicare-for-All. Program and Speakers: […] Quote of the Day Medicare Advantage revenues are 30 percent higher than their health care spending! February 7, 2020 By Vilsa Curto, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan Levin, Jay Bhattacharya American Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019 Abstract We compare health care spending in public and private Medicare using newly available claims data from Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers. MA insurer revenues are 30 percent higher than their health care spending. Adjusting […] Quote of the Day Medicaid improves financial risk protection, but still falls short February 6, 2020 By Hiroshi Gotanda, research scientist, Ashish K Jha, K T Li professor of health policy, Gerald F Kominski, professor of health policy, Yusuke Tsugawa, assistant professor of medicine and health policy BMJ, February 5, 2020 Abstract Objective: To examine the association between expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act and changes in […] Quote of the Day John Geyman’s ‘Long-Term Care in America’ February 5, 2020 By John Geyman, M.D. Copernicus Healthcare Preface Providing personal and compassionate long-term care for aging seniors and people with disabilities has been a challenge over the last 100 years in this country. It has become much more of a challenge in recent years for a number of reasons, including its unaffordability even for well-off families, […] Quote of the Day The State of America’s Children February 4, 2020 Children’s Defense Fund, February 3, 2010 Introduction For years our country has fallen short of its promise to its children, and as we enter a new decade, the situation for many children is only growing more dire. One in six children in America lives in poverty, with income inequality having grown to the widest gap […] Quote of the Day The MIPS mess February 3, 2020 By Elizabeth Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC Medscape, January 29, 2020 If you’ve knocked yourself out to earn a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) bonus payment, it’s pretty safe to say that getting a 1.68% payment boost probably didn’t feel like a “win” that was worth the effort. And although it saved you from having a […] Quote of the Day Medicare Advantage overpayments explained January 31, 2020 By Richard Kronick Health Affairs Blog, January 29, 2020 In the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Congress gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the statutory authority and obligation to implement a “coding intensity adjustment” for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, to adjust for differences in patterns of diagnosis coding between MA and traditional […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 32 33 34 35 36 … 54 Older
