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Is this really controversial? Evidently, some of you think it is. I was reading a Viewpoint in the Journal of the American Medical Association when I stumbled across this (emphasis mine): For years, clinicians have advocated for health insurance coverage...
On December 16, 2010 I wrote a post that began: While the rhetoric around health reform has been incendiary from day one, in policy terms, a compromise between Democrats and Republicans using the outline of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
Managed care companies are cherry picking the healthiest disabled senior dual eligible beneficiaries in New York state using a variety of methods, and excluding those needing the most care. The program provides a monthly per capita payment amount ($3,800/month) regardless...
After John Boehner was elected leader of the House Republicans in 2006, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked him what was, at the time, an obvious question: “Medicare prescription drug benefit,” Wallace said. “How do you think it’s working?” This...
Nicholas Bagley’s “Bedside Bureaucrats: Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked” (PDF) is a well-reasoned critique of the program and the Affordable Care Act’s reform of it. The premise establishes the fundamental tension: By culture and politics, in the U.S. we, by...