By KEN TERRY (This is the third in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association forCont...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/08/31/why-health-systems-employ-doctors-money-and-control/
By MIKE MAGEE, MD Adam Gaffney’s recent Boston Review article, “What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong”, a landmark piece that deserves careful reading by all, reaches near perfection...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/11/25/charting-the-economic-history-of-us-health-reform/
By ROBERT M. HERZOG The Cure for healthcare isn’t Medicare for All, it’s establishing organizations with complete responsibility for the total care, costs, quality and outcomes for a person. ...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/11/20/bettercare-for-all/
By JONATHAN HALVORSON, PhD With each passing year, the Affordable Care Act becomes further entrenched in the American health care system. There are dreams on both the far left and far rightContin...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/10/22/improving-the-affordable-care-act-markets-part-1/
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and other proponents of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) justified their support for the HRRP with the clai...
By JOE FLOWER Picture, if you will, a healthcare sector that costs less, whose share of the national economy is more like it is in other advanced economies—let’s imagine 9% or 10%Continue rea...
By JOE FLOWER The system is unstable. We are already seeing the precursor waves of massive and multiple disturbances to come. Disruption at key leverage points, new entrants, shifting public awar...
By MIKE MAGEE, MD It is now well established that Americans, in large majorities, favor universal health coverage. As witnessed in the first two Democratic debates, how we get there (Single Payer...
By JOE FLOWER Did you catch that headline a few weeks back? An official of a health system in North Carolina sent an email to the entire board of the North CarolinaContinue reading...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/08/15/the-rebellion-of-the-buyers/
By BOB HERTZ We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers! When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of theirContinue readi...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/24/health-reform-job-one-stop-the-gouging-part-1/