Posts All of our commentary in one spot. You can also browse by topics or search. 427 posts in this category Posts pagination Newer 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 … 43 Older Primary Care Corporate Takeover a Challenge for Single Payer May 9, 2023 The large-scale corporate appropriation of primary care reflects and enables the profiteering that now dominates US health care. The doctor-patient relationship suffers. Single payer financing may falter if corporations own the vast majority of providers. What are our reform options? Single Payer Would Radically Transform Health Policy Research May 6, 2023 The May 2023 issue of Health Affairs, the leading health policy journal, has 20 articles. In our assessment, 9 of them would be unnecessary and another 7 simplified if the US had truly universal and standard health insurance. These health policy resources could be redirected to critical non-insurance issues in access, equity and disparities, and outcomes. Call for a National Health System May 4, 2023 PNHP founders Woolhandler and Himmelstein propose that progressive health reform needs updating to respond to the widespread takeover of providers by for-profit corporations. The original vision of insurance reform should be expanded to include ownership of provider organizations. Suing for Inflated Bariatric Surgery Fees April 29, 2023 Aggressive collection tactics by a large bariatric surgery practice exemplify widespread problems with our health insurance: complex payment arrangements, confusing and misleading financial contracts, widely variable prices, medical debt, expensive litigation, and rising private equity. Oracle Health Data Profit Fantasies April 26, 2023 Oracle Health, acquired by Cerner, is pursuing a global cloud-based health records repository. Except that they can’t even succeed in five Veteran’s Administration hospitals. And their grand vision fails to address core healthcare financing challenges. When will we turn our attention from profit-seeking business models to health coverage basics? Rescuing Primary Care, Part 2 April 21, 2023 In Part 1, we discussed how primary care is being acquired and distorted by huge corporations pursuing massive profits. Today, we present a competing vision: a broad social movement to reclaim primary care as a “common good” focused on public benefit. Rescuing Primary Care, Part 1 April 15, 2023 In the first of two posts, we discuss a blog on how primary care is being acquired and distorted by huge corporations seeking massive profits by exploiting CMS value-based care, specifically capitation. The excerpt, a bit more than usual, is worth a read. Next time we’ll examine a proposal for making primary care a publicly-financed common good. 2024 Payment Increase & Other Problems with Medicare Advantage April 8, 2023 CMS just finalized the 2024 payment rule for Medicare Advantage, weakening the draft rule. There remain massive overpayments and widespread barriers to care. These fundamental problems are inevitable with reliance on private insurer intermediaries. Excess Deaths in US in 2021: COVID + 400,000 April 6, 2023 New research finds that in 2021 the US had nearly 900,000 excess deaths compared with wealthy European countries. About half were due to COVID and half due to other factors, including health care financing and delivery. An Immodest Proposal (for Excellent Financing of Our Health Care System) April 1, 2023 A striking vision for how to pay for health care in our country. Posts pagination Newer 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 … 43 Older
