Posts All of our commentary in one spot. You can also browse by topics or search. 410 posts in this category Posts pagination Newer 1 … 38 39 40 41 Older Public insurance claims data can save lives June 24, 2021 COVID-19-Related Deaths And Excess Deaths Among Medicare Fee-For-Service BeneficiariesHealth AffairsJune 2021By Wafa W. Tarazi, et al. The experience with COVID-19 has brought to light a number of data limitations in the health care system. … Medicare’s administrative and claims data systems can support detailed analyses of morbidity, mortality, service use, and spending for beneficiaries in […] Medicare Advantage Raises Costs: MedPAC Refutes AHIP Claims June 23, 2021 For the record: MedPAC’s response to AHIP’s recent “Correcting the Record” blog post.March 3, 2021By MedPAC Staff “A recent blog post (“Correcting the Record”) from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) provides an inaccurate description of how the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) compares spending in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program to Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) spending. […] Sustained & Robust Support for Single Payer in California June 22, 2021 Lake Research PartnersPolling on California Recall and Medicare for AllMay 3, 2021 A new poll shows that likely voters in California strongly support a state Medicare for All healthcare system, and that Governor Newsom seeking permission from the Biden Administration to fund the new system with federal dollars would strengthen his support in the upcoming […] Expensive Drugs are Becoming Ultra-Expensive June 18, 2021 Health Affairs, June 2021, Ultra-Expensive Drugs And Medicare Part D: Spending And Beneficiary Use Up Sharply, By So-Yeon Kang, Daniel Polsky, Jodi B. Segal, and Gerard F. Anderson Drugs with exceptionally high prices have sparked debate on their sustainability and affordability. We refer to these as “ultra-expensive” drugs, defined as drugs with average annual per […] 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 […] Posts pagination Newer 1 … 38 39 40 41 Older
