Posts All of our commentary in one spot. You can also browse by topics or search. 401 posts in this category Posts navigation Newer 1 … 38 39 40 41 Older 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 COVID Payment Burdens Echo How U.S. Health System Routinely Fails Patients June 2, 2021 Covid Killed His Father. Then Came $1 Million in Medical Bills., NY Times, May 21, 2021, By Sarah Kliff Insurers and Congress wrote rules to protect coronavirus patients, but the bills came anyway, leaving some mired in debt. “People think there is some relief program for medical bills for coronavirus patients,” said Jennifer Miller, a […] Health Care Costs Insurance Medicare For All Time to Take to the Streets to Demand Medicare for All! May 31, 2021 Sanders, Jayapal Put Single Payer Medicare for All on Back Burner, Corporate Crime Reporter, May 10, 2021, By Russell Mokhiber Single payer activists want Medicare for All front and center in Congress. But Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal have put the issue on the back burner. Sanders has yet to reintroduce his single […] Medicare For All Single Payer The Time Is Now Guarantee Coverage for All Medically Necessary Services – Including Reproductive Care May 30, 2021 Supreme Court to review Mississippi abortion law that advocates see as a path to diminish Roe v. Wade, Washington Post, May 17, 2021, By Robert Barnes “The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review a restrictive Mississippi law that provides a clear path to diminish Roe v. Wade’s guarantee of a woman’s right to […] Abortion Rights Choice Medicaid Medicare For All Hospital and Group Practice Profit Motive Poses as Big a Threat as Insurers May 28, 2021 Recent Changes in Physician Practice Arrangements: Private Practice Dropped to Less Than 50 Percent of Physicians in 2020, AMA Economic and Health Policy Research, May 2021, By Carol K. Kane “2020 was the first year in which less than half (49.1 percent) of patient care physicians worked in a private practice—a practice that was wholly […] Insurer Profit Motive Learning from COVID-19: Public Funding of Drug Development May 27, 2021 The covid-19 vaccine patent waiver: a crucial step towards a “people’s vaccine”, BMJ blog, May 10, 2021, By Gregg Gonsalves and Gavin Yamey “An IP waiver would allow other producers to step in and make raw materials for export for all the current vaccines, industrial parts, and components. It would also simplify agreements for eventual […] Posts navigation Newer 1 … 38 39 40 41 Older
