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Medicare Advantage & DCEs: How Corporate Investors Deplete Medicare September 30, 2021 Summary: Private investors have devised and exploit clever mechanisms to obtain massive payments and outlandish profits from Medicare. These manipulations started with Medicare Advantage, and now threaten traditional Medicare via Direct Contracting Entities. DCEs must be stopped. Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, and The Medicare ‘Money Machine’Part 1 & Part 2Health Affairs BlogSeptember 27 & 28, […]

NYT: The multifaceted failings of US health insurance September 28, 2021 Summary: The New York Times, the most respected US daily newspaper, over the last week prominently published three stories about startling failings in our health insurance system. Are the reporters and editors sending us a message – time to change health insurance system? Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 BillNew York […]

High Uninsurance post-ACA for Low-Income, Black, Hispanic September 27, 2021 Summary: This study used a national survey to document high levels of uninsurance among vulnerable populations after ACA implementation, especially in states not choosing to expand Medicaid – up to 40-60% for some groups in some states. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, the ACA falls far short. States’ Performance in Reducing Uninsurance Among Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income […]

Californians Crave Single Payer! September 24, 2021 Summary: Three diverse California groups – doctors in training, low income populations, and leaders of community-based organizations — recently showed high support for single payer. Very encouraging trend, invigorating! Let’s harness that energy. Health reform debateUSC Keck School of MedicineSeptember 21, 2021Single Payer presenter Paul Song MD See Paul’s ppt deck here. Community Voices Priorities […]

If USC is ready for single payer, it’s time! September 21, 2021 Summary: The University of Southern California medical school is often regarded as high class. But at least two of its current top leaders share health justice goals, and endorse single payer. The tide of support is turning! Steve Shapiro brings a big-picture approach to medicine at USCUSC NewsSeptember 14, 2021By Leigh Hopper Steve Shapiro takes […]

Allowing For-Profit Hospice: The Worst Health Policy Idea Ever? September 20, 2021 Summary: For-profit ownership has reached two-thirds of hospice agencies. Yet for-profit status is associated with fewer services, less clinically skilled staff, more formal complaints, more discharges of sicker patients, and more hospital and emergency department use. Removing for-profit ownership is part of health reform. Hospice Tax Status and Ownership Matters for Patients and Families(behind a […]

Crowdsource ideas on government role in single payer September 16, 2021 Summary: Today is an experiment: crowdsource day at Health Justice Monitor! We know that HJM readers think about healthcare reform and discuss it with family and friends, and we’d like to learn from that – garner the most persuasive arguments. Please share your ideas. If this works well, we’ll incorporate it regularly. Comment by: Jim […]

Am I a Single Payer Zealot? September 15, 2021 Summary: Yes, proudly. Health Care Unions Defending Newsom From Recall Will Want Single-Payer PaybackKHN (Kaiser Health News)September 13, 2021By Angela Hart Bob Ross, president and CEO of the California Endowment, a nonprofit that works to expand health care access, is on Newsom’s single-payer commission. He said it will work through “tension” in the coming months […]

A public option would perpetuate our highly dysfunctional financing system September 14, 2021 Summary: Jacob Hacker proposes Public Option 2.0 as part of Medicare and integrated into ACA marketplaces. He says it would pave the way for Medicare for All. But would it? History teaches us that it might well derail the drive for Medicare for All. Medicare for More — Why We Still Need a Public Option […]

American College of Physicians on For-Profit Medicine; Mortality from For-Profit Dialysis September 13, 2021 Summary: Investor-owned care, with a focus on profit, has permeated U.S. health care. The American College of Physicians critiques this trend, but avoids a clear opposing position. Meantime, evidence accumulates of its deleterious effects on health. Financial Profit in Medicine: Position Paper from American College of PhysiciansAnnals of Internal MedicineSep 7, 2021By R Crowley et […]

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