Author Frequently asked questions. 534 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 54 Older Temporary gifts to private insurance. That’s reform?! March 5, 2021 By Sarah Kliff The New York Times, March 5, 2021 Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential primary debating the best way to expand public health insurance. They sparred over whether to enroll everyone in public coverage — the preferred policy of Senator Bernie Sanders — or to give everyone a choice to do so, […] Quote of the Day What are the trade-offs in public health insurance design? March 4, 2021 By Katherine Baicker, Ph.D. JAMA, March 2, 2021 The importance of access to health care and the financial protections that insurance should provide have never been more salient, and the potential consequences of the costs and gaps within the patchwork system in the US have never been more dire. Would the US population be better […] Quote of the Day Is there an incremental path to Medicare for All? March 3, 2021 We talked to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed about M4A and building a movement in the wake of Biden’s victory. By Natalie Shure The Nation, March 1, 2021 Even if the near-term dream of getting a Medicare for All (M4A) champion into the White House ended with the defeat of Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2020 primary campaign, the […] Quote of the Day Should we shop for health care prices? March 2, 2021 Re: Chernew M, Cooper Z, Larsen Hallock E, and Scott Morton F. “Physician Agency, Consumerism, and the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans.” Journal of Health Economics. (2021). National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM), March 2021 What This Study Found Patients often received their MRIs from higher-priced providers even when lower-priced options were available closer […] Quote of the Day President Biden’s health care tweaks will perpetuate expensive mediocrity March 1, 2021 The Biden administration is trying to make the health care law more generous and closer to its original design, but may disappoint progressive allies hoping for more. By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz The New York Times, February 27, 2021 Tucked inside the stimulus bill that the House passed early on Saturday are a series […] Quote of the Day Jonathan Cohn: ‘The Ten Year War’ February 26, 2021 By Jonathan Cohn St. Martin’s Press, February 2021 Excerpts from the Conclusion – What Change Looks Like: The next great debate over health care reform might not happen for many years. Or it might happen right away. It depends to some extent on what else is happening in politics – and how the Supreme Court […] Quote of the Day Why did Haven fail? February 25, 2021 By Cheryl Clark MedPage Today, February 19, 2021 When they made their bold announcement in mid 2018, three corporate powerhouses — Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JP Morgan Chase — were going to revolutionize the healthcare delivery system. After all, they had author, innovator, and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, at the helm. But less than three […] Quote of the Day Stanford business professor discovers administrative sludge February 24, 2021 A new study finds that dealing with health insurance administrators costs the U.S. economy billions in wasted work time and lost productivity. By Edmund L. Andrews Stanford Graduate School of Business, February 23, 2021 It’s no secret that health care in the United States is tangled in wasteful red tape. A study in 2019 estimated […] Quote of the Day Private equity investment in nursing homes February 23, 2021 By Atul Gupta, Sabrina T. Howell, Constantine Yannelis & Abhinav Gupta National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2021 Abstract The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in Private Equity (PE) investment in healthcare, a sector in which intensive government subsidy and market frictions could lead high-powered for-profit incentives to be misaligned with the […] Quote of the Day California’s new single payer bill February 22, 2021 By California Nurses Association National Nurses United, February 19, 2021 Renewing its commitment to the larger fight for health care justice, the California Nurses Association (CNA) is pleased to sponsor Assembly Bill 1400 (Kalra), the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), which would guarantee comprehensive, high-quality health care to all California residents as […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 54 Older
