Author Frequently asked questions. 528 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 53 Older Private equity piles on debt to pull cash from health firms March 26, 2021 By Sabrina Willmer Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2021 Healthcare companies are taking on more debt to pay dividends to their private equity owners, just a year after the start of a pandemic that plunged the industry into crisis. Healthcare firms have already borrowed about $3.7 billion in 2021, partly to fund payments to private […] Quote of the Day Administration and Congress are wasting tax funds on private insurance March 25, 2021 By Noam N. Levey Kaiser Health News, March 24, 2021 When Democrats pushed through a two-year expansion of the Affordable Care Act in the covid-relief bill this month, many people celebrated the part that will make health insurance more affordable for more Americans. But health care researchers consider this move a short-term fix for a […] Quote of the Day Drug pricing is a life and death issue March 24, 2021 By Joyce Frieden MedPage Today, March 23, 2021 “All over this country, the American people are asking a simple question: How many people need to die before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry?” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on […] Quote of the Day Complexities and deficiencies of the temporary health system tweaks March 23, 2021 By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff The New York Times, March 22, 2021 The new stimulus bill made tens of millions of Americans eligible for new health insurance subsidies. But many will have to wait to get help: It will probably take a year for the full emergency aid to reach people, because of website […] Quote of the Day Private equity is taking over March 22, 2021 By Jane M. Zhu, M.D., M.P.P., M.S.H.P., and Daniel Polsky, Ph.D., M.P.P. The New England Journal of Medicine, March 18, 2021 The ecosystem of physician-owned medical practices has been inundated with larger forces that are driving health care toward consolidation, corporatization, and administrative management. Between July 2016 and January 2018, hospitals and health systems acquired […] Quote of the Day Families USA/Hart poll shows that voters want reform NOW! March 19, 2021 Families USA, March 17, 2021 The realities of the COVID-19 pandemic have made health and health care reform front burner issues for all of us, no matter our political party, race, location, or background No one in this country should have to worry that they can’t afford the health care they need or have to […] Quote of the Day Policy community hung up on ‘volume to value’ March 18, 2021 By Rachel M. Werner, M.D., Ph.D., Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Hoangmai H. Pham, M.D., M.P.H., Amol S. Navathe, M.D., Ph.D. Penn, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, February 2021 Executive Summary A decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the vision of moving the U.S. health care system “from volume to value” has […] Quote of the Day ACP’s policy paper on ethics and professionalism March 17, 2021 By Matthew DeCamp, M.D., Ph.D., Lois Snyder Sulmasy, J.D., for the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee Annals of Internal Medicine, March 16, 2021 Abstract The environment in which physicians practice and patients receive care continues to change. Increasing employment of physicians, changing practice models, new regulatory requirements, and market dynamics […] Quote of the Day Fraud is rampant in Medicare Advantage March 16, 2021 By David Engel, J.D., Gary Azorsky, J.D., Jeanne Markey, J.D., and Ray Sarola, J.D. MedPage Today, March 13, 2021 Can a patient have and not have diabetes at the same time? According to private insurers participating in the Medicare Advantage program, the answer is yes. The data architecture of Medicare Advantage is vulnerable to fraud […] Quote of the Day Ralph Nader calls for an end to the corporate takeover of Medicare March 15, 2021 Where is the outcry among Democratic politicians to reverse completely the corporate takeover of Medicare? By Ralph Nader Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 53 Older
