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Lessons from an English GP visiting Chicago
A new blog by Dr. Ida Hellander, PNHP policy director Post 1 Dr. Clare Gerada, president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, visited Chicago recently on a study tour to see how a...
View ArticleHealth Care: A Casualty Of Class Warfare
As the Great Recession rolls on after three years, without signs of relief on the horizon, a growing army of many millions of Americans is finding it impossible to gain access to necessary health care...
View ArticleLive or Die: Do We Care Anymore?
We saw in our last post how the intensifying class war in America over the last 30 years has hollowed out the middle class and led to the widest gap between the haves and have nots in our country’s...
View ArticleHealth firms’ proposal: Use trade rules to force other nations to import our...
Just days after my blog posting about the disastrous pro-market reforms being pushed in England by, among others, the giant American insurer UnitedHealth Group, a coalition of U.S. health care...
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Time to end corporations’ outsized role in U.S. health policy
As the Occupy Wall Street protest continues and spreads, a health care system that meets human needs is increasingly one of the demands. Last week’s call by the Institute of Medicine to define...
View ArticleRyan’s “premium support” proposal for Medicare: Myths and facts
Background: “Premium support” or voucher proposals for Medicare are a mainstay of conservative health policy. They have been defeated for over three decades, starting with President Reagan’s FY 1981...
View ArticleCATHOLIC HOSPITAL SYSTEMS: A GROWING THREAT TO ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES
by John Geyman, M.D. http://blog.hc-disconnects.com/2014/03/10/catholic-hospital-systems-a-growing-threat-to-access-to-reproductive-services.aspx Expansion of Catholic hospital systems is accelerating...
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THE VA SCANDAL—WHAT LESSONS CAN WE DRAW?
by John Geyman, M.D. http://blog.hc-disconnects.com/2014/06/02/the-va-scandalwhat-lessons-can-we-draw.aspx The V.A. scandal over access to care for our veterans is, of course, a betrayal of our...
View ArticleCANCER CARE IN THE U.S.—ACHILLES HEEL OF A PROFIT-DRIVEN SYSTEM
Care of cancer in this country is outpacing other health care problems and is already pricing itself beyond the reach of many Americans unfortunate enough to contract the disease. In my 2009 book, The...
View ArticleHealth Care and Public Schools: Some Disturbing Parallels
by John Geyman, M.D. http://www.copernicus-healthcare.org Having just finished reading Bob Herbert’s excellent book, Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America, I am struck by the...
View ArticleBrill’s Bitter Pill: Accurate Diagnosis, Inadequate Treatment
Steven Brill, author of the well-known 2013 Special Report, Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us, in Time magazine has just released his new book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals,...
View ArticleObamacare at Age Five: Access to Care
by John Geyman, M.D. Author of How Obamacare is Unsustainable. Now that Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) is just turning five years since its enactment in 2010, it is time to assess its...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act at Age Five: Quality of Care
www.copernicus-healthcare.org • www.johngeymanmd.org Having looked in the last two posts at access and affordable costs of care five years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we now...
View ArticlePrivatization of Medicare: Urgency of the Latest Threat
http://www.johngeymanmd.org This is a dangerous time for Medicare. The bill passed by the House on March 27, by a surprising bipartisan majority of 392-37—H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP...
View ArticleWhy the Private Health Insurance Industry Has to Go
http://www.johngeymanmd.org The private health insurance industry in the U.S. has had a long run since shifting to medical underwriting and a for-profit status in the early 1960s. It finds itself...
View ArticleWhere is Hillary On Health Care?
by John Geyman, M.D. Twenty-one years ago, Hillary Clinton, then leading the presidential committee proposing a health care reform plan, made these statements in speaking to a group at Lehman Brothers...
View ArticlePrivatized Medicaid Managed Care: Yet Another Health Policy Disaster
by John Geyman, M.D. www.johngeymanmd.org You might think that we learned the lesson of discredited managed care in the 1990s. The term “managed care” is confusing to many, but really amounts to...
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Medicare at 50: Strengths to Build On
by John Geyman, M.D. www.johngeymanmd.org Traditional, or Original Medicare, turns 50 on July 30, having had many challenges and achievements from the days of its passage to today. It is time to...
View ArticleDoes the Affordable Care Act Guarantee Health Care as a Right?
In his recent celebratory remarks after the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upheld the legality of subsidies/tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama had this to say: “Five years ago,...
View ArticleMisinformation About The Cost of Single-Payer National Health Insurance
In a front-page Wall Street Journal article a few days ago, the projection was made that a single-payer national health insurance program (NHI), as part of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie...
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