Posts All of our commentary in one spot. You can also browse by topics or search. 396 posts in this category Posts navigation Newer 1 … 37 38 39 40 Older Medicine Must Meet the Moment on Racial Justice June 16, 2021 AMA Doctors Meet Amid Vocal Backlash Over Racial Equity PlanU.S. NewsJune 12, 2021By Lindsey Tanner The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is holding its annual policymaking meeting amid backlash over its most ambitious plan ever — to help dismantle centuries-old racism and bias in all realms of the medical establishment. The dissenters are a […] Medicare For All Racism In Medicine Colorado’s Pseudo-Public Option June 15, 2021 By Adam Gaffney Last week, lawmakers in Colorado passed a bill that would establish what some might call a “state public option” plan, although that’s not what it is. The bill would require, as the Colorado Sun and Denver Post describe, private insurance companies to offer a health plan on the individual and small-marketplaces with […] Medicare For All Public Option Uninsured Adults Nearing Medicare Age More Likely to Die from Cancer June 14, 2021 Cancer Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries And Their Younger Uninsured Counterparts, Health Affairs, May 2021, Gerard Silvestri, Ahmedin Jemal, K. Robin Yabroff, Stacey Fedewa, and Helmneh Sineshaw Abstract: Proposals for expanding Medicare insurance coverage to uninsured Americans approaching the Medicare eligibility age of sixty-five has been the subject of intense debate. We undertook this study to […] Health Care Outcomes Medicare For All The Buffett-Bezos-Dimon-Gawande insurance fail? A powerful policy lesson! June 11, 2021 How Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire Hathaway took on America’s health care system—and lost, Fortune, June 1, 2021, By Erika Fry Was it a press release, or a declaration of war? How else to explain the media and market frenzy that followed the announcement, issued on Jan. 30, 2018, that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase […] ESI Insurers That Squeeze Care are Killing Thousands of Enrollees Each Year June 10, 2021 Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 6, 2021, Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull, and Amanda Starc. *The abstract is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab017 While the full text is behind a paywall, an earlier version of the full paper is available here. From the Abstract: “We develop and apply […] Medicare Advantage Medicare For All Quality of Care Let’s Not Mourn the Death of the Public Option June 9, 2021 The health insurance public option might be fizzling. The left is OK with that., NBC News, June 5, 2021, By Benjy Sarlin and Sahil Kapur “A decade later, Joe Biden campaigned on making the public option a reality, but so far, he’s done little to get Congress to enact one. Instead of outrage, influential progressives […] Public Insurers Provide Better Access, Financial Protection, & Satisfaction Than Private Insurers June 8, 2021 Access to Care, Cost of Care, and Satisfaction With Care Among Adults With Private and Public Health Insurance in the US, JAMA Network Open, June 1, 2021, By Charlie M. Wray, Meena Khare, Salomeh Keyhani Introduction: In the past decade, health insurance expansion has been a major aspect of health care reform in the US, […] ESI Medicare For All Public Insurance Time to Abandon Pay For Performance June 7, 2021 Time and Financial Costs for Physician Practices to Participate in the Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System: A Qualitative Study, JAMA Health Forum, May 14, 2021, By Dhruv Khullar, Amelia M. Bond, Eloise May O’Donnell, Yuting Qian, David N. Gans, and Lawrence P. Casalino “Participating in the MIPS program results in substantial financial and time costs […] Medicare For All Pay for Performance (P4P) Single Payer Must Include Rational & Compassionate Long Term Care June 4, 2021 Health Care Use and Out-of-pocket Spending by Persons With Dementia Differ Between Europe and the United States, Medicare Care, June 2021, By Sabrina Lenzen, Pieter Bakx, Judith Bom, Eddy van Doorslaer Background: Persons with dementia need much care, but what care is used and how the burden of financing is divided between persons with dementia, […] Long Term Care Medicare For All ACA Marketplace 2021 Enrollment Rise in Nonexpansion States – No Cure June 3, 2021 UI effect? ACA marketplace enrollment soared at low incomes in nonexpansion states in 2021, XPOSTFACTOID, May 3, 2021, By Andrew Sprung I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that enrollment [in ACA marketplace plans] at the lowest subsidy-eligible income levels in nonexpansion states exploded this year. Enrollment at 100-150% FPL in these fourteen states […] Affordable Care Act Medicare For All Posts navigation Newer 1 … 37 38 39 40 Older