Whose Costs? Who Benefits? – A Close Reading of a Hospital System CEO’s Prescription for Controlling Health Care Costs
A hospital system CEO makes some questionable recommendations about containing health care costs.
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From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: The “Fresh Hell” Of Health Savings Accounts
French farce on Capitol Hill, and Health Savings as another neoliberal “smart shopping” solution.
Read more...Potential Phishing Equilibria Under Neoliberalism in the U.S. Medical Coding System
Medical coding systems, the ugly truths of miscoding and upcoding, and disputing your bill
Read more...Lancet Study on Life Expectancy by 2030 Confirms Poor US Performance
A new Lancet study on life expectancy for 35 countries puts up big red flags for US performance.
Read more...As US Attorney, Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Enabled Drug and Biotechnology Executives’ Impunity
Yet another Trump appointee who was soft on big business misconduct.
Read more...Single Payer on The March
Jesse Bohon on the Christian justification for single payer; single payer in California, and why #TheResistance must support single payer.
Read more...Cruz’s Plan to End State Regulation of Health Insurers Would Nationalize Worst Market Practices
Dean Baker discusses why some Republican health care fixes are anything but.
Read more...From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: On Policy
Bipartisan compromise on ObamaCare “repair”?
Read more...From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: The Politics
As Republicans shift ObamaCare policy from “repeal and replace” to “repair,” how will that affect swing states?
Read more...Bill Black: Why the Republicans Cannot “Replace” Obamacare
Why the Republicans will kill Obamacare or have to live with it in more or less its present form.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Judge Reveals Shady Side of Crushed Aetna-Humana Merger, Banks to Lick their Wounds, Aetna to Get Pummeled
Yesterday, a federal judge blocked Aetna’s $34-billion acquisition of Humanam, citing concerns that their combined pricing power would raise costs to consumers.
Read more...Bernie Sanders and Trump’s Pick for Health and Human Services Face Off on Right to Health Care
Sanders remains virtually alone among opposition leaders in being willing to take on Trump Administration policy positions.
Read more...Debate Over Health Care Yet Again Omits Elephants In the Room: Excessive Costs Due to Terrible Incentives and Pricing, Administrative Costs, Pharma Looting
Health care in America is broken and the press and pundits seem desperate to paper over how bad it is.
Read more...“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”
Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...TrumpCare, Pre-Existing Conditions, and “Continuous Coverage”
“Continuous Coverage” is the Republican solution for avoiding a death spiral by covering pre-existing conditions. How bad will it be?
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