• Our health care costs have actually increased despite the complex legislation known as the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). (digboston.com)
  • The reality is that the Affordable Care Act is not going to make health care affordable, only more expensive as premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses get higher and higher each year, escalating beyond the current rates of inflation. (digboston.com)
  • The new national health insurance law - the Affordable Care Act - is meant to deal with many problems of access for lower income people. (themainemonitor.org)
  • Despite decades of debate and legislative efforts - most notably the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - nearly one in 10 residents of the United States remains uninsured. (publichealthwatch.org)
  • That fact, which is completely at odds with core principles of fairness and health care as a human right, is why I joined more than 7,000 nuns to speak out against the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and it's why I am now calling for Congress to take action to lower drug costs. (networklobby.org)
  • Betty Doumas-Toto's health insurance premium rose nearly 48 percent in January, to $800 per month for an Affordable Care Act plan. (sccma.org)
  • It renews the government subsidies and tax credits for the Affordable Care Act. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • That number is down thanks to the Affordable Care Act, but even with the progress made, roughly 10% of non-elderly Americans are still unable to afford health insurance. (penncapital-star.com)
  • The Affordable Care Act introduced a cap on insurance profit margins, but not profit levels. (penncapital-star.com)
  • A. Even after passage of the Affordable Care Act about 3.8 million Californians under the age of 65 still remain without without coverage in 2015. (californiaonecare.org)
  • The Affordable Care Act, signed by President Obama in 2010, protected many Americans from very high health costs by requiring insurance plans to be more comprehensive , but at the same time it allowed or even encouraged increases in deductibles. (californiaonecare.org)
  • A 2008 study by researchers at the Urban Institute found that health spending for uninsured non-elderly Americans was only about 43% of health spending for similar, privately insured Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • August 2009 -- The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. (links.org.au)
  • Twice as likely as whites to go without health insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate. (links.org.au)
  • A myth of the health-care system is that it may be broken, but treats African Americans and whites equally. (links.org.au)
  • The second myth is that Americans spend too much on health care. (pacificresearch.org)
  • To make matters worse, many Americans between ages 50 and 65 cling to jobs they don't want simply to keep health benefits. (theglobalist.com)
  • He proposes a government-run program that uninsured Americans may join if they can afford it. (theglobalist.com)
  • Right now, tens of millions of Americans live without health care coverage - one injury or illness away from bankruptcy. (archives.gov)
  • The real health tax in our health care system is a hidden tax of $1,000 that the millions of Americans who get insurance through their job or buy it on their own are already paying each year to cover the costs of caring for Americans without health insurance. (archives.gov)
  • Health insurance reform will do away with many of the rules that make it difficult for some Americans to get health care coverage today. (archives.gov)
  • In the past 3 years, over 12 million Americans were discriminated against by insurance companies due to a preexisting condition or saw their coverage denied or dropped just when they got sick and needed it most. (ucsb.edu)
  • Americans whose jobs and health care are secure today just don't know if they'll be next to join the 14,000 who lose their health insurance every single day. (ucsb.edu)
  • Many Americans oppose a single-payer health care system. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • If we do not act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day. (foxnews.com)
  • But for millions of Americans, the cost of prescription medication forces them to ration their treatment or even go without medication entirely. (networklobby.org)
  • Americans are literally dying because they are unable to afford the drugs that their taxes paid to create. (networklobby.org)
  • If the president really wants to help seniors and the millions of Americans struggling to afford their prescriptions, he should tell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to support HR-3. (networklobby.org)
  • And, until Sunday, it would have helped millions of Americans with private health insurance who still can't afford lifesaving insulin. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • Doctors, nurses and health care workers put their lives on the line to treat millions of Americans battling a highly contagious and deadly disease. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Rural hospitals continue to close at alarming rates, forcing rural Americans to travel further and further to receive health care. (penncapital-star.com)
  • It is so much money, in fact, that you might assume that Americans are able to receive high quality, accessible care whenever they need it. (penncapital-star.com)
  • First of all, nearly 28 million Americans are still without any health insurance at all. (penncapital-star.com)
  • The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) joins this call on Congress to take swift action and pass legislation to cap monthly out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 for Americans with commercial insurance, group health plans, and Medicare. (industryintel.com)
  • One in four Americans living with diabetes reported rationing their insulin to pay for other life essentials like rent, utilities, daycare, and food. (industryintel.com)
  • The price of insulin nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013, and the trend upward has made affording this life-saving medication even more challenging for millions of Americans living with diabetes. (industryintel.com)
  • In doing so, the Democrats were implicitly admitting that preex pools are a practical way to help the one percent of Americans who simply can't access affordable health insurance due to a preexisting medical condition. (freedomworks.org)
  • Jacqueline Acosta is a health care worker and one of many Americans with diabetes who are struggling to obtain the insulin they need. (ctmirror.org)
  • Novo Nordisk also said "we know that as the health care system has changed, a growing number of Americans with diabetes struggle to pay for their health care, including medicines made by us. (ctmirror.org)
  • She has previously been uninsured and, like so many Americans, struggled to afford her insulin prescription. (protectourcare.org)
  • He is a committed health care champion who is fighting for a future where quality, affordable health care is a reality for Georgians and all Americans. (protectourcare.org)
  • In an e-mail to Obama supporters, David Axelrod wrote, "Reform will stop 'rationing' - not increase it. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a myth that reform will mean a 'government takeover' of health care or lead to 'rationing. (wikipedia.org)
  • To the contrary, reform will forbid many forms of rationing that are currently being used by insurance companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Last week's Mikulski amendment in the Senate ensured that if health care reform passes, women whose doctors recommend that they begin mammograms before age 50 will still have access to first-dollar coverage, regardless of the USPSTF's recommendations. (iwf.org)
  • Health care "reform" is in the air, but to its leading advocates, that means a government takeover of the medical system. (pacificresearch.org)
  • I'm talking about the bill that would provide for a non-reform re-authorization of the National Flood Insurance Program through the end of November. (theridgewoodblog.net)
  • Republicans reflexively oppose another government health agency, and this is to the detriment of genuine reform. (theglobalist.com)
  • As of April 24, 2018, the issue of health care reform has been once again temporarily put on hold by more pressing presidential and world issues. (freegrab.net)
  • Health insurance reform will raise taxes on the middle class. (archives.gov)
  • o And if the people making these attacks get their way by killing reform, that hidden tax will only continue to grow by the day as more and more people lose their insurance. (archives.gov)
  • President Obama's health insurance reform plan will cover undocumented immigrants. (archives.gov)
  • Health insurance reform will lead to rationing of care, with government bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor. (archives.gov)
  • Health insurance reform will stop rationing, not increase it. (archives.gov)
  • This week, I've been traveling across our country to discuss health insurance reform and to hear directly from folks like you: your questions, your concerns, and your stories. (ucsb.edu)
  • I've been holding some of my own, and the stories I've heard have really underscored why I believe so strongly that health insurance reform is a challenge we can't ignore. (ucsb.edu)
  • And that's why we're going to pass health insurance reform that finally holds the insurance companies accountable. (ucsb.edu)
  • But now's the hard part, because the history is clear: Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests with a stake in the status quo use their influence and political allies to scare and mislead the American people. (ucsb.edu)
  • Barack Obama offers incremental reform: regulation of insurers to prevent discrimination against the less healthy, subsidies to help lower-income families buy insurance, and public insurance plans that compete with the private sector. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • While Kaiser Permanente has always (and will always) welcome new voices to the incredibly important discussion of health care reform, Kaiser Permanente's 8.7 million members, the communities Kaiser Permanente serves, and the country as a whole, deserve to hear facts that should help clear up misconceptions created by the movie. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • Pass health insurance reform now. (foxnews.com)
  • I have a few questions about healthcare reform, even if I don't have solid answers. (chrisweigant.com)
  • My questions today are about the costs of healthcare discrimination, and what reform will do to alter this equation. (chrisweigant.com)
  • Some reasonable-sounding politicians have been saying through this whole debate that healthcare reform ought to be handled piecemeal. (chrisweigant.com)
  • One reform Congress should revisit is the Medical Loss Ration (MLR) loophole. (penncapital-star.com)
  • It) represent(s) the insurance industry (and its own self-interest) rather than (its members and) the public welfare in discussions about health reform. (counterpunch.org)
  • Q. Can we afford this reform at a time when our elective officials say we can't even afford to lower college costs? (californiaonecare.org)
  • In the media and in academia, some have advocated explicit healthcare rationing to limit the cost of Medicare and Medicaid. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the public sector, primarily Medicare, Medicaid and hospital emergency rooms, health care is rationed by long waits, high patient copayment requirements, low payments to doctors that discourage some from serving public patients and limits on payments to hospitals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Plain and simple, we need Improved Medicare for All now to make sure everyone has the health care they need. (digboston.com)
  • The solution to our health care crisis is Improved Medicare for All, a system of nonprofit single payer health care, publicly funded, privately administered. (digboston.com)
  • Improved Medicare for All will provide affordable health care for everyone, increase access to prevention and early intervention, and provide dental and vision care. (digboston.com)
  • In a series of recordings, Reagan attacked a government-run health-care system for the elderly (Medicare) as being the sure-fired road to socialism. (links.org.au)
  • Thanks to Medicare most retirees have better health care than younger citizens who can't afford high insurance premiums. (links.org.au)
  • The problems with Medicare and veterans' care are mainly about money, as privatisation hawks seek to starve the programs to get the private sector back. (links.org.au)
  • Both Medicare and the VA programs provide better health care than the private sector - and, significantly, equal care to all racial and social groups. (links.org.au)
  • It is still widely argued that government administration is more efficient than private insurance, yet Ms. Pipes details how "government itself is the middleman," with extensive state and federal regulation and expensive cost-shifting by Medicare and Medicaid. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Medicare has proven more effective at providing doctor and hospital services to the elderly than private-managed-care alternatives. (theglobalist.com)
  • That rumor began with the distortion of one idea in a congressional bill that would allow Medicare to cover voluntary visits with your doctor to discuss your end-of-life care, if and only if you decide to have those visits. (ucsb.edu)
  • The legislation will allow Medicare to directly negotiate hundreds of drug prices, extend those prices to people with private insurance, and hold drug corporations accountable for charging U.S. patients many times more than what people in other countries pay for the same medicine. (networklobby.org)
  • Medicare for All California would streamline administration, use state purchasing power to negotiate discounts on the price of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, create an agency to perform health planning, support the delivery of high quality care and establish an Inspector General for Health Care with strong investigative tools to uncover fraud. (californiaonecare.org)
  • By correcting health care misspending, a Medicare for All California system would be able to direct money into health care and make the health system very efficient. (californiaonecare.org)
  • A Medicare for All California system would do all of this and add an array of other fiscal tools including capital health investment management, a health payment board to establish provider reimbursement, and a referral policy for specialty care. (californiaonecare.org)
  • We can't afford NOT to do this and Medicare for All California would be a major step toward a more generous and balanced budget. (californiaonecare.org)
  • The significant financial challenge has to do with covering the bills for old people, but that challenge exists one way or another thanks to Medicare (and the basic reality that senior citizens are largely uninsurable in the private sector) and has relatively little to do with whether or not we can afford to bring universal coverage to the under-65 crowd. (slate.com)
  • Caring for old people is still part of the health insurance system, and to the extent (a very great extent) that government will have to pay the bill through Medicare then that will be a budgetary burden that might "require a larger tax burden than citizens are willing to bear. (slate.com)
  • Reverend Warnock has been a leader on lower insulin costs, sponsoring the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would cap out-of-pocket insulin costs, not just for seniors on Medicare, but for millions of diabetics with private insurance. (protectourcare.org)
  • INTRODUCTION: Privatisation through the expansion of private payment and investor-owned corporate healthcare delivery in Canada raises potential conflicts with equity principles on which Medicare (Canadian public health insurance) is founded. (bvsalud.org)
  • Insulin is now so expensive some diabetics can't afford it. (digboston.com)
  • It's no wonder one in four diabetics report rationing their insulin because they can't afford the exorbitant cost. (networklobby.org)
  • If the GOP, including Ernst, can reverse their disastrous vote to deny health care and benefits to military veterans, they can still do the right thing for diabetics. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • Annual insurance premiums for a family now exceed the cost of a new car. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • But our current system of employer-financed health insurance exists only because the federal government encouraged it by making the premiums tax deductible. (wikipedia.org)
  • He wrote that there are three primary ways the US rations healthcare: The increases in healthcare premiums reduce worker pay. (wikipedia.org)
  • In other words, more expensive insurance premiums reduce the growth in household income, which forces tradeoffs between healthcare services and other consumption. (wikipedia.org)
  • Even if the insurance people like isn't terminated, they will likely be priced out of it by higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs. (nationalcenter.org)
  • In order to keep their profits high for their stockholders, insurance companies are raising their premiums and increasing deductibles, copayments and out of pocket expenses. (digboston.com)
  • Those of us with coverage may face more crowded emergency rooms, higher premiums and higher taxes to pay for uncompensated care than we would if everyone had health insurance. (publichealthwatch.org)
  • My insurance premiums have been going up for the past 30 years I've been in business. (todaysmachiningworld.com)
  • Denying people coverage when they get sick -- by rescission, for instance -- also helps to keep costs down, by charging those same people premiums for years, before they discover their insurance is worthless when they need it. (chrisweigant.com)
  • However, instead of lowering premiums, the insurance companies have been incentivized to increase costs so that they can make more money. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Will we return to the days when insurers turn down patients because they have co-morbidities, or yank their premiums so high that they cannot afford insurance? (medpagetoday.com)
  • Because Mark is paralyzed, the rationing bureaucrats might deem his two years of actual life worth only 0.5 QALY. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • o President Obama doesn't want government bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor - and he doesn't want insurance company bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor either. (archives.gov)
  • If you're worried about rationed care, higher costs, denied coverage, or bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, then you should know that's what's happening right now. (ucsb.edu)
  • A single-payer health care system is one where the government operates a tax-funded health insurance plan for all residents. (vox.com)
  • This is very different than the current American health care system, where thousands of different parties - some private, some public and some individuals - all chip in a bit. (vox.com)
  • What it does not say anything about is ownership of the rest of the health-care system. (vox.com)
  • Canada's single-payer system, for example, does not include coverage for dental care, vision care and many prescription drugs. (vox.com)
  • Taiwan's health care system works similarly. (vox.com)
  • No. Universal coverage refers to a system where all residents have health coverage. (vox.com)
  • As a detailed report published by the National Council on Disabilities published in 2019 noted, patients with disabilities in countries that have adopted the QALY rationing system have witnessed "coverage denials and loss of access to care. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • The 6,000 women are women who fall through the cracks in the medical care system and do not get breast health except for this program," said YWCA Executive Director Diane Masseth-Jones. (iwf.org)
  • As it unfolds, it's obvious that ObamaCare actually doubles down on what makes the U.S. health care system so expensive. (nationalcenter.org)
  • It encourages irreversible destruction of the individualized patient care based on privacy and sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that is the essence of our health care system. (nationalcenter.org)
  • Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • Our profit-based health care system is the most expensive and complicated in the world. (digboston.com)
  • We cannot be complacent and accept the health care system we have as the way things are. (digboston.com)
  • We must do something now about changing our health care system for the better. (digboston.com)
  • The debate over the broken US health-care system and what to do about it is one of life and death. (links.org.au)
  • The "right" of the insurance monopoly, the drug industry and organised doctors' partnerships to make profits off the backs of sick people is a foundation principle of the free market health-care system. (links.org.au)
  • She writes: "When we talk about re-tooling our health care, we should be careful to also recognize what is good about the current system. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Hence, he aims to fix the system by creating a massive new entitlement, subsidizing doctors to buy technologies other businesses already purchase to increase efficiency and profitability - and compile information doctors and insurance companies already collect when they prescribe and approve treatments. (theglobalist.com)
  • This article is about fixing the current American health care system. (freegrab.net)
  • We need to view the health care system in all its complexity and not as a single dimension of cost control. (freegrab.net)
  • The political debate about our health care crisis has been about bringing down the cost of health care and replacing the multi-payer system with a single payer universal heal care system. (freegrab.net)
  • Even if we did adopt a universal single payer health care system, the adopted system would lower costs but would still be not work very well as there are many sub-parts[drivers] that are broken, not working very well and need to be fixed. (freegrab.net)
  • The ideal way to fix a broken health care system would be to consider all eight inter-related factors that affect how health care is delivered to people --- the consumers. (freegrab.net)
  • Fixing the broken health care system in United States is the unfinished business of the past 30 years. (freegrab.net)
  • Politicians and the public will rehash how to bring the high cost of health care system under control and ignore discussing better consumer quality care. (freegrab.net)
  • Our health care system keeps on failing year after year. (freegrab.net)
  • And each year our politicians fail to fix the health care system. (freegrab.net)
  • The conversation since 2016 has been over reducing health care costs and not changing and improving the health care system itself. (freegrab.net)
  • Meanwhile, the American public, frustrated with the dysfunctional political system and not understanding how the health care system should work, is left to survive on its own. (freegrab.net)
  • If we do not fix the political re-election financing system, then there is little hope of reducing health care costs and improving consumer wellbeing. (freegrab.net)
  • In 1996, he worked with a family physician in San Diego to streamline the paper records in his medical office with an electronic patient record system [now referred to as Electronic Health Records]. (freegrab.net)
  • Finally, as a patient and subscriber, I learned a lot just being part of the Kaiser Permanente health care system for over 45 years. (freegrab.net)
  • while caretakers have their view of how the health care system should be fixed: If you ask a medical practitioner, he will give you his biased view that fixes his part of the health care system to his advantage. (freegrab.net)
  • These are stories that aren't being told, stories of a health care system that works better for the insurance industry than it does for the American people. (ucsb.edu)
  • Under the U.S. system, rationing is mostly by price. (themainemonitor.org)
  • It's much harder me to tell what impact it would have for those who don't already agree that the US health care system is fundamentally broken… or for those who think that moving things to a more laissez-faire free market is the solution. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • But it also is saddled with an inefficient health care system that gives advantages to the privileged and well-off while ignoring preventive care and abandoning those most in need. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • While the ACA has addressed a number of the ways insurance companies reap record profits on the backs of patients, huge pharmaceutical companies continue to control too much of our healthcare system. (networklobby.org)
  • In a recent proclamation of Family Doctor Day, the BC government states that family physicians lead the delivery of accessible health care, strengthen the capacity and overall quality of the health care system, and improve the overall health of the population ( http://bccfp.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Family-Doctor-Day-May-19-2019_Optimized.pdf ). (bcmj.org)
  • It is time to acknowledge that we already have a multitiered health care system. (bcmj.org)
  • President Barack Obama, since he refuses to support any specific idea contained within any of the bills moving through Congress, has instead of late been focusing on the worst problems of the healthcare system as it stands today: pre-existing conditions, caps on coverage, and being denied coverage. (chrisweigant.com)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic put our health care system through a stress test that it barely survived. (penncapital-star.com)
  • It's a challenging time for the American health care system - unless you're one of America's largest private health insurers . (penncapital-star.com)
  • If insurance companies are not held accountable for their greed, our health care system outcomes will get worse. (penncapital-star.com)
  • That means that in five to ten years pretty much everybody will be in the government run health system. (windrosehotel.com)
  • A. By correcting the current health care finance system which currently spends nearly 30% of each health care dollar on administrative and clinical waste, excess drug prices and fraud. (californiaonecare.org)
  • A. California's money problems are caused in part by our dysfunctional health finance system and health care misspending. (californiaonecare.org)
  • Q. I have insurance, so why should I want to change a system that is working for me? (californiaonecare.org)
  • From a strictly health point of view, the best medical system would provide universal access with a strong emphasis on illness prevention and social health. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • These goals are best achieved with a class-based, treatment-oriented medical system, where the rich get the best services, the middle class and skilled workers have limited access through pooled insurance programs, and the poor are provided with a bare-bones basket of government-funded services. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • Canada rations medical care by under-funding the public system, bringing inequality through the back door. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • Matthew Yglesias takes issue with my suggestion that a "decent" national health care system, added on top of our current Social Security system, will require a "larger tax burden than citizens are willing to bear. (slate.com)
  • We want to offer them to everyone, with a minimum of rationing--again, in a system that most of the affluent will also sign up for. (slate.com)
  • The alternative seems to be a system in which the upper middle class lives (because they can afford fancy treatments) and the working poor die. (slate.com)
  • To fund a system which takes care of everyone, without the insurance market imploding, he must a) raise taxes, and b) make people buy insurance. (medpagetoday.com)
  • It highlights ethical concerns from high drug costs, policy proposals that might temper the problem, and how clinicians can adjust to the current reality of pharmaceutical pricing and better advocate for changes to the healthcare system. (medscape.com)
  • The Alliance is an arm of the Lown Institute, a think tank founded by the renowned cardiologist Bernard Lown, MD, Brookline, Massachusetts, that advocates for "a radically better and uniquely American health system that overturns high-cost, low-value care. (medscape.com)
  • The solution, he believes, needs to involve the entire health care system. (medscape.com)
  • I have to work to fill the holes in patients' lives because we have a system that does not provide everybody with health insurance. (medscape.com)
  • Learnings from the project will be used to develop, test and refine a new conceptual framework that will describe public-private interfaces operating within Canada's healthcare system. (bvsalud.org)
  • While the pandemic has made this situation worse, insulin rationing is a crisis that has been decades in the making. (industryintel.com)
  • A. The health care crisis affects all of us.In a recent poll (January, 2016), conducted by The New York Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation, roughly 20 percent of people under age 65 with health insurance nonetheless reported having problems paying their medical bills over the last year. (californiaonecare.org)
  • In Fontenotes Number 70 , 8 days before the crisis ended, I reviewed 12 ways health care and, most importantly, people were struggling. (sarahfontenot.com)
  • The 800,000 employees at shut down Federal Agencies who fall under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program are not at risk of losing their health care insurance- but they could start to receive bills for their dental, vision and long-term care coverage if the crisis continues. (sarahfontenot.com)
  • ABSTRACT The world is facing an unprecedented global economic crisis, with many countries needing to reconsider their level of health care spending. (who.int)
  • Obama's stance, articulated during the presidential debates where he said he considered health care "a right not a privilege", put him on a collision course with the insurance industry and their hired hands in Congress. (links.org.au)
  • There's a new CNN poll that shows a clear generational split in who supports Obama's health care plan. (foxnews.com)
  • Our youth seem to be all for Obama's "free" health care. (foxnews.com)
  • President Obama noted that US healthcare was rationed based on income, type of employment, and pre-existing medical conditions, with nearly 46 million uninsured. (wikipedia.org)
  • What kind of healthcare reforms should President Obama pursue? (theglobalist.com)
  • President Obama believes in international competition for business - let him show that U.S. government health care can be as efficient as government systems abroad in providing universal coverage. (theglobalist.com)
  • What is single-payer health care? (vox.com)
  • The term "single payer" describes a method of paying for health care. (vox.com)
  • Single payer is typically a policy approach used to achieve universal insurance coverage for all residents - but it's not the only way to get there. (vox.com)
  • Single-payer systems have to make difficult decisions about what benefits they can - and can't - afford to guarantee to all residents. (vox.com)
  • So in practice, single-payer health care systems end up mostly government-financed but with individuals chipping in, too. (vox.com)
  • Which countries have single-payer health care systems? (vox.com)
  • Researchers typically cite Canada as one of the most straightforward examples of single-payer health care. (vox.com)
  • The United Kingdom's National Health Service also fits the definition of single-payer, with the country using general tax revenue to pay for all residents' health care. (vox.com)
  • Are universal coverage and single-payer health care the same thing? (vox.com)
  • Setting up a single-payer plan, where the federal government pays for all residents' health care, is one path to get to universal coverage - but not the only one. (vox.com)
  • Like single-payer systems, it's a tax-funded health plan run by the government. (vox.com)
  • The Veteran's Administration and Medicaid are two other, federally-run insurance plans that often get described as single payer in miniature. (vox.com)
  • Supporting the status quo will only reward those who have put us on a path to a single-payer health care disaster. (nationalcenter.org)
  • Canada has single-payer health care. (digboston.com)
  • It's Newsom's strong support for creating a state-run, single-payer health insurance program. (sccma.org)
  • What they fail to mention is the reason for the decrease was that people can't afford to use their insurance because of the high out-of-pocket costs of their ObamaCare policies. (nationalcenter.org)
  • And don't forget about those who cried racism when questions were raised about how the quality of care would necessarily drop because there was never enough money to subsidize so many of the 30 million newly-insured ObamaCare enrollees. (nationalcenter.org)
  • The only real change with ObamaCare is the creation of a bureaucratic infrastructure that allows the government to centrally control the delivery of health care through regulations and mandates that are covered with a cloak of innocuous catch-phrases such as "meaningful use," "accountable care organizations" and "medical home. (nationalcenter.org)
  • What ObamaCare distills down to is more control, not better quality health care. (nationalcenter.org)
  • In a side ring is the health care (aka Obamacare) non-debate. (windrosehotel.com)
  • It does not embrace or reinforce the provision of ObamaCare that bans preexisting conditions exclusions in insurance policies. (freedomworks.org)
  • H.R.1549 should be viewed as a tactical maneuver in a larger war, cannibalizing the implementation of ObamaCare exchanges in order to gain leverage in the larger fight for health care freedom. (freedomworks.org)
  • If ObamaCare kicks in, they will have access to "free" health care coverage from the government. (freedomworks.org)
  • Many people (if not most) who purchase insurance on the Obamacare Exchanges (or "Marketplaces") receive a subsidy from the government to help them afford health care coverage. (sarahfontenot.com)
  • Health-care costs are soaring, in part because the medical field is increasingly being put into harness to facilitate lifestyle and self-fulfillment desires . (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • In the US, high costs routinely inhibit patient access to necessary health care services. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has argued that health care costs are the primary driver of government spending in the long term. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fareed Zakaria wrote that only 38% of small businesses provided health insurance for their employees during 2009, versus 61% in 1993, because of rising costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • We can't all afford to consume all of the health care we want without taking costs into consideration. (iwf.org)
  • Supporters of the governmental takeover of health care declared victory because there has been a decrease in costs. (nationalcenter.org)
  • Remember how they demonized colleagues who raised valid questions about access to care, costs and rationing? (nationalcenter.org)
  • Just a few weeks ago, the AG issued a report , after months of study, in which she clearly explained that insurance price increases in the state were the result of two factors, the underlying increase in health care costs and a disparity of reimbursement rates that pay some providers substantially more than other providers. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • We have about 1,600 different insurance companies in the US, and this results in high administrative costs, endless paperwork, and a very high overhead to pay for all their advertising and ways to deny care. (digboston.com)
  • Canadians live longer and are healthier than us and spend about half per capita on health care costs than we do in the US. (digboston.com)
  • The issue of health care costs is one I think about professionally, so I'll present it as an exemplar of our broader malaise. (blogspot.com)
  • Even after the recession, it is forecast to grow by almost eight percent annually as healthcare costs continue to rise. (themainemonitor.org)
  • The Lower Drug Costs Now Act (HR-3) is the first step to stopping drug companies' from prioritizing their bottom line over our health. (networklobby.org)
  • She's losing her hearing, but can't afford tests a doctor ordered because the costs are too high. (sccma.org)
  • Out-of-pocket costs depend on health insurance plans. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • But some high-deductible plans require patients to shell out $7,000 to $8,000 out of pocket before insurance pays a dime toward insulin costs. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • Insurers are supposed to spend 80% of every dollar on care and only 20% on administrative costs. (penncapital-star.com)
  • This is supposed to reduce the health care costs of everybody. (windrosehotel.com)
  • And, once one's health insurance premium is paid, there are no other costs, no co-pays, no deductibles. (californiaonecare.org)
  • These financial vulnerabilities reflect the high costs of health care in the United States, the most expensive place in the world to get sick. (californiaonecare.org)
  • US products are becoming less competitive in global markets because of high employer health care costs. (californiaonecare.org)
  • Some sort of rationing is an unavoidable outcome of steep treatment costs, the authors note. (medscape.com)
  • This can lead people to do two things: skip necessary care and skip unnecessary care. (medpagetoday.com)
  • My patients often skipped diagnostic tests and rationed medications. (publichealthwatch.org)
  • A new position statement from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and other organizations warns soaring prices for neurologic and other prescription medications is leading to rationing of care and diverting clinicians' time from the clinic to insurance bureaucracy. (medscape.com)
  • He'd been rationing his diabetes medications until his new health insurance kicked in. (medscape.com)
  • But I would oppose rationing if the country's power was held by social conservatives. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • Of note, the centralized, real-time database of the country's National Health Insurance (NHI) helped support disease surveillance and case detection. (cdc.gov)
  • When those who rely on insulin stop taking doses as prescribed because they cannot afford it, they suffer severe effects, such as numbness in their feet and nerve damage in the eyes. (protectourcare.org)
  • A poignant story highlighted by NBC News and the New York Post covers a young woman from the Interior Department now rationing her insulin because she cannot afford the cost . (sarahfontenot.com)
  • Those unable to afford a health insurance policy are unable to acquire a private plan except by employer-provided and other job-attached coverage, and insurance companies sometimes pre-screen applicants for pre-existing medical conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Given that the United States devotes far more of its economy to health care than other rich countries, and gets worse results by many measures, it's hard to argue that we are now rationing very rationally. (wikipedia.org)
  • Throughout the post-war era, despite our greater total wealth, we have had less equality, more want, and worse health than western Europeans, and now even more countries are catching up to us and exceeding us in measures of social welfare. (blogspot.com)
  • The protest, held on April 8, was organized by the Right Care Alliance, a grassroots activist group of clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders dedicated to making "health care institutions accountable to communities and put patients, not profits, at the heart of health care. (medscape.com)
  • It is all about the destruction of the doctor-patient relationship and the takeover of health care choices. (nationalcenter.org)
  • This information is targeted for main-street America so they can become more proactive and informed about health care. (freegrab.net)
  • Insurance companies will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or lifetime, and we will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses, because no one in America should go broke just because they get sick. (ucsb.edu)
  • America can't afford a Yugo, let alone a Cadillac or 20 million Cadillacs. (foxnews.com)
  • I am a relatively wealthy guy in America, top one or per cent in savings and earnings, but without health insurance I would have been wiped out financially, and possibly dead or blind. (todaysmachiningworld.com)
  • There should be a place in America for young people, waitresses, epileptics or hemophiliacs to find medical care without the inefficiency of sweating out the emergency room. (todaysmachiningworld.com)
  • Call me names and hate on me, but I think America can afford to make healthcare available for its people. (todaysmachiningworld.com)
  • In 2008, Tia Powell led a New York State work group to set up guidelines for rationing ventilators during a potential flu pandemic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13) and the Region's Vision 2023 to expand universal health coverage, respond to emergencies and promote health. (who.int)
  • Since the late 1990s , insurance plans have begun asking their customers to pay an increasingly greater share of their bills out of pocket through rising deductibles and co-payments. (californiaonecare.org)
  • In 2005, the average annual insurance premium for a family of four ($10,880) cost more than the annual income of a full-time minimum-wage worker ($10,712), before deductibles, co-payments and the cost of non-insured treatments. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • Even for some patients with health insurance, high deductibles and restrictive formularies can make insulin unaffordable. (ctmirror.org)
  • Drug prices aren't fixed, with different insurance plans offering different pricing, deductibles, and co-pays. (medscape.com)
  • NYU Langone Health , one of the nation's top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have 'sole discretion' to place patients on ventilators and institutional backing to 'withhold futile intubations. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Update: Grassley's staff objected after this column was published to the fact that I - and most other mainstream media - omitted that all 50 Republicans voted for an alternative amendment offered by Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana that would have reinstated a narrow Trump administration rule that never took effect but would have offered lower-priced insulin at Federally Qualified Health Centers . (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • Preventive care is critical. (digboston.com)
  • The words "preventive care" and "cradle to grave" are demonised as "socialistic" and anti-capitalist - against the American way of life. (links.org.au)
  • It accounts for 1 of every 7 dollars we spend on healthcare, according to the American Diabetes Association. (healthline.com)
  • And yet, many people with type 2 diabetes have succeeded in making big changes in their lives - eating better, exercising more - and see their diagnosis as the day they woke up and started paying attention to their health. (healthline.com)
  • More than two-thirds of those with type 2 diabetes said their current weight negatively affects their health. (healthline.com)
  • The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is the nation's leading voluntary health organization fighting to bend the curve on the diabetes epidemic and help people living with diabetes thrive. (industryintel.com)
  • The Health Care Cost Institute reported that Type 1 diabetes patients - who generally must inject themselves every day - paid an average of $5,705 for insulin in 2016, nearly double what they paid four years earlier. (ctmirror.org)
  • Participants took turns at the megaphone telling the individuals' stories, including those of two young adults with type 1 diabetes who died while rationing their insulin. (medscape.com)
  • The idea that negotiating prices using QALYs will restrict access to care relies on the unrealistic premise that people can afford all health care services, no matter the cost. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • They argue that a proper rationing mechanism would be more equitable and cost-effective. (wikipedia.org)
  • The cost prevents the certain types of care from being provided. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is why I keep coming back to disclosure of contract reimbursement rates and quality information to the extent that it's measurable to help referring doctors steer their patients toward more cost-effective healthcare choices. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • Most of what makes up health care and causes high cost of health care is never discussed. (freegrab.net)
  • Health care is much more complicated than just bringing down the cost of health care or adopting universal health care. (freegrab.net)
  • The cost of health care should not be a matter of life or death. (networklobby.org)
  • Employer based healthcare skews everyone's view on this because they don't see the cost involved. (todaysmachiningworld.com)
  • Organizations can no longer afford to ration use of e-signature services with concern for cost - they need feature-rich but more affordable options, so broad sets of people in their organizations can modernize processes," states product director Volker Sommerfeld of Frama , an international managed service provider and conference sponsor. (rpost.com)
  • Denying insurance to those with pre-existing conditions means cherry-picking your customers on the actuarial notion that you can predict who will get sick and who will eventually cost you more money. (chrisweigant.com)
  • Congress should step in and address this problem in order to lower the cost of health care and curb insurance industry abuses. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Something will have to give--either a) the overall quality of health care, b) the egalitarian fairness of health care, or c) the cost of other big programs like Social Security's pensions. (slate.com)
  • Jacqueline Acosta's job is to help people with their medical care, but because of the high cost of insulin, she is struggling with her own medical needs. (ctmirror.org)
  • In recent years, many diabetic patients without health insurance have found insulin to be completely unaffordable as its cost has jumped precipitously. (ctmirror.org)
  • It depends on the necessity of the care skipped, and the cost of the unnecessary care skipped. (medpagetoday.com)
  • In the United States, most health care is privately financed, and so most rationing is by price: you get what you, or your employer, can afford to insure you for. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, expanding tax benefits to those outside employer-sponsored insurance is not as egregious as some say. (medpagetoday.com)
  • It levels the playing field, and weakens the grip of employer-sponsored insurance, arguably the most potent force preserving status quo. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Even when she was privately insured, Lacy continued to have a hard time affording this life-saving prescription. (protectourcare.org)
  • If we are not careful, rationing could be wielded in an invidious manner against the very sick, elderly, disabled, and those seen as nonproductive. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • Now, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act ( H.R. 485 ) has been put in the hopper to prohibit "the use of quality-adjusted life years and similar measures in coverage and payment determinations under Federal health care programs. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • In 2009, an estimated 46 million individuals in the United States did not have health insurance coverage. (wikipedia.org)
  • An investigation by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations showed that health insurers WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group and Assurant Inc. canceled the coverage of more than 20,000 people, allowing the companies to avoid paying more than $300 million in medical claims over five years. (wikipedia.org)
  • At age 26, he could no longer stay on his mother's health care insurance plan and needed to find his own coverage. (pnhp.org)
  • Because he could not afford this, Alec decided to temporarily forego insurance coverage and purchase insulin with cash. (pnhp.org)
  • These two government programs could be the basis to build fair medical coverage and provide universal care. (links.org.au)
  • o The hard truth is that rationing is already happening every day - at the hands of insurance companies who decide whether or not you get coverage. (archives.gov)
  • Insurance companies will be prohibited from denying you coverage because of your medical history, dropping your coverage if you get sick, or watering down your coverage when it counts, because there's no point in having health insurance if it's not there when you need it. (ucsb.edu)
  • Caps on coverage are there so that, even if one of the cherry-picked customers does have major health problems, your financial position as a health insurance company is limited to a finite dollar amount per sick customer, allowing for better risk assessment as a business (and, it needs pointing out, to the insurance business risk assessment is everything -- their entire reason for being). (chrisweigant.com)
  • Insurance companies can't deny people with pre-existing conditions, can't cap people's lifetime insurance coverage, and can't deny coverage on a whim. (chrisweigant.com)
  • We offer built-to-order health care sector coverage for our clients. (industryintel.com)
  • A. There is more than enough money now being spent on health care to finance benefit rich universal health coverage. (californiaonecare.org)
  • It is a subsidy for sick people, to help them obtain private health insurance coverage. (freedomworks.org)
  • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development identified access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines as central to the achievement of universal health coverage, in target 3.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (who.int)
  • If members of Congress are truly concerned about access to health care, they should encourage government and private payers to use all the tools they can to negotiate fair and affordable prices for the health services they cover. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • Rationing leads to the powerless being denied access to care that the well-connected can attain. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • Access to private health insurance is rationed on price and ability to pay. (wikipedia.org)
  • Health maintenance organizations (HMOs), which are common among the rest of the population, restrict access to treatment by financial and clinical access limits. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ms. Pipes reviews the dismal experience of states that have proceeded down this road, urging advocates at least to "be honest about the sacrifices required: Higher taxes, forced premium payments, one-size-fits-all policies, long waiting lists, rationed care, and limited access to cutting-edge medicine. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare. (blogspot.com)
  • But, if this happens, the increasing number of people with low incomes will lose their access to good medical care through a form of rationing. (themainemonitor.org)
  • If a person is not insured, cannot get government assistance and cannot otherwise afford to pay for healthcare, his or her access is limited to the hospital emergency room. (themainemonitor.org)
  • The guidelines say that removing the decision from the physician treating the patient avoids a conflict of interest, allows an officer or committee with access to overall ventilator availability to make the call and prevents health worker burnout and stress. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Workers, RCMP members, prisoners, federal employees, and visitors to Canada can all access expedited care through private insurance. (bcmj.org)
  • 1) In a capitalist world, all nations limit access to medical care, and Canada is no exception. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • Improved access means providing more people with some, but not all, of the care they need. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • Universal access means no rationing and no class discrimination, so that the millionaire, the factory worker and the homeless addict all receive the best that society can provide. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • She has a number of patients who have rationed their medication or stopped taking it altogether when their co-pays increased or they lost access to a co-pay assistance program because their insurance company chose to cover a still-expensive generic drug with no assistance program over a slightly costlier brand-name medication that comes with patient discounts. (medscape.com)
  • Social determinants of health (SDOH) are non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Are sleep disorders, fatigue, and the working environment contributors to poor health outcomes, highway crashes and injuries? (cdc.gov)
  • Thankfully, we are wealthy enough to afford such advances. (pacificresearch.org)
  • They chisel down physician fees and hospital stays and lavish the savings on insurance executives who become wealthy in the bargain. (theglobalist.com)
  • Many people can't afford the co-payments. (digboston.com)
  • And more and more people can't afford to get the care they need. (digboston.com)
  • These are typically called "multi-payer" health care systems. (vox.com)
  • It's not growing because doctors don't want to take care of patients, but because the reimbursements are so low that doctors can't keep their practices open under those conditions. (nationalcenter.org)
  • As a family physician in Austin's community clinics for 13 years, I saw hundreds of patients without health insurance. (publichealthwatch.org)
  • Rather than caring for our neighbors, we are seeing the same kind of corporate greed we've come to expect from massive health industry companies who routinely pad their profits by putting patients' lives at risk. (networklobby.org)
  • Even as opioids flood American communities and fuel widespread addiction, hospitals are facing a dangerous shortage of the powerful painkillers needed by patients in acute pain, according to doctors, pharmacists and a coalition of health groups. (sccma.org)
  • A March 28 email from Robert Femia, who heads the New York health center's department of emergency medicine, underscored the life-or-death decisions placed on the shoulders of bedside physicians as they treat increasing numbers of coronavirus patients with a limited supply of ventilators. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Another 125 patients were in intensive care on Monday, more than double the number reported by the hospital on Thursday, according to the internal figures. (foxbusiness.com)
  • At NYU Langone Hospital -- Brooklyn, intensive-care patients increased to 36 from 21 over that same period. (foxbusiness.com)
  • NYU medical-school residents also treat patients at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, the city's largest public hospital, which had 448 coronavirus patients in intensive care as of Monday, according to the figures. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The doctor said so far there was no evidence of anyone withholding care from patients. (foxbusiness.com)
  • We are not always able to pull the necessary strings to get patients in for the care they need in a timely fashion. (bcmj.org)
  • If the government can't afford to provide comprehensive health care in a timely fashion, then they shouldn't prevent patients from accessing it by their own means. (bcmj.org)
  • Another way health insurers try to get out of paying for care that patients need is by requiring pre-authorization for routine and even lifesaving care. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Across the country, patients can't afford care and hospitals can't afford to keep the lights on and their doors open, while insurers rake in hundreds of billions of dollars. (penncapital-star.com)
  • only health care that meets the "immediate needs of the patients, medical staff, and medical facilities" are included in the Department shutdown plan. (sarahfontenot.com)
  • With 90% of IRS workers out of the office, these applications are now delayed - and the patients involved could lose their insurance entirely if they can't pay the full premium while they are waiting (as a bonus the IRS Call Center is closed so these people can't get information on what they should do). (sarahfontenot.com)
  • The government raised the travel advisory to Wuhan to level I-watch and alerted the healthcare community to report to Taiwan CDC on patients with respiratory symptoms and fever or presumptive pneumonia who had recently traveled to Wuhan. (cdc.gov)
  • The steep increases have forced some neurology patients to ration their medication or stop taking it altogether, which is one of the ethical concerns cited in the AAN statement. (medscape.com)
  • This sort of self-rationing happens in patients with and without insurance, she added. (medscape.com)
  • It's a terrible thing and it's happening to all patients," Katz Sand said, adding that the old credo of 'Yeah, the drug prices are high, but they are covered by insurance' is not a sustainable argument anymore. (medscape.com)
  • New Zealand, Norway, Denmark and Sweden also have national health services similar to the United Kingdom, where the country owns the providers - and is responsible for paying them. (vox.com)
  • We can address the problems associated with personal "rationing" by helping those who truly can't afford to buy insurance or obtain services-and, certainly we don't need to subject the entire health care sector to government micro-management to do so. (iwf.org)
  • A portrait was also presented of US Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar, who was president of Lilly USA, the largest division of Eli Lilly and Company, during a time that the price of insulin rose substantially. (medscape.com)
  • Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333. (cdc.gov)
  • Public health organizations and others in the whole community can take action to address SDOH. (cdc.gov)
  • Myth four is that high drug prices push up health care expenditures. (pacificresearch.org)
  • All these factors tell me that national health care --at least "decent" egalitarian, national health care--will require a big increase in government expenditures. (slate.com)
  • HSAs encourage people to be thrifty with health care expenditures. (medpagetoday.com)
  • There, each province provides a public health insurance plan to all residents. (vox.com)
  • Unless QALY rationing is prohibited, people with disabilities, the frail elderly, and chronically and terminally ill people could well see their medical options curtailed based on what bean counters, "experts," and public-opinion surveys think about the quality of their lives. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)
  • The conservatives reject the French, British and other European models where health care is provided by the government directly or the insurance industry is highly regulated like a public utility. (links.org.au)
  • American health care is an inefficient hybrid of public and private, costing more than it should for the care provided. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Sally Pipes, head of the Pacific Research Institute and a Canadian immigrant to the United States, ably dissects the case for increased public control in "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care. (pacificresearch.org)
  • Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective. (blogspot.com)
  • Walter Sorochan has a a very good background in health, medicine and public health. (freegrab.net)
  • UnitedHealth was forced to alter its policy due to public outrage, but they are still requiring " advance notification " for the procedure, which doctors fear could lead to bureaucratic delays and delayed care. (penncapital-star.com)
  • The public is not permitted to question whether medical care should be rationed by class, because we are not allowed to question capitalism. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • The slush fund, formally known as the Prevention and Public Health Fund, is a big pot of money the Administration is using to set up exchanges in states that refuse to set them up (a resistance we've strongly encouraged). (freedomworks.org)
  • The point is that Mr. Trump knows that the public values their healthcare. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Yes, the public wants top-notch healthcare for themselves. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Taiwan effectively delayed and contained community transmission by leveraging experience from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, prevalent public awareness, a robust public health network, support from healthcare industries, cross-departmental collaborations, and advanced information technology capacity. (cdc.gov)
  • The country has a robust nationwide public health network, comprehensive universal healthcare for all citizens, vibrant medical research and pharmaceutical industries, and improved infection control practices. (cdc.gov)
  • Within a week, the government assembled a cross-departmental taskforce and an expert team of leaders in infectious diseases, public health, and laboratory sciences. (cdc.gov)
  • The insurers argue that the action by the Insurance Commissioner is arbitrary and capricious, the traditional standard used to overturn a decision by a regulatory agency. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • The Division of Insurance argues, in part, that the insurers have not used up their administrative remedies before the agency, another traditional argument. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • Simply put, European systems ration and control prices more effectively than do U.S. private insurers. (theglobalist.com)
  • Starting with the point that the health insurers are in business to make profits -- and without getting into decrying the obscene nature of those profits -- their business plan seems to be working (for them). (chrisweigant.com)
  • All told, America's largest health insurers raked in more than $41 billion of profits in 2022. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Health insurers make money by not paying for health care. (penncapital-star.com)
  • We need more regulation of health insurers to ensure that they are not putting profits before people. (penncapital-star.com)
  • They often end up in emergency departments, which are required by the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act to see them, for preventable medical problems or even routine care. (publichealthwatch.org)
  • At a recent appointment, Katz Sand learned about a patient's drug rationing only after a routine MRI showed new brain lesions that regular treatment might have prevented. (medscape.com)
  • Our suggestions focus on setting priorities based on the national disease burden, prioritizing prevention interventions, demanding results, curbing corruption, experimenting with innovative funding mechanisms, advocating for increased funding by presenting health spending as an investment rather than an expense and by selected recourse to civil society interventions and philanthropy to bridge the gap between available and needed resources. (who.int)
  • We analyze use of the National Health Insurance database and critical policy decisions made by Taiwan's government during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • First, no matter what you've heard, if you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it. (ucsb.edu)
  • I agree: the McCain plan would do for health care what deregulation has done for banking. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • The Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. (foxnews.com)
  • According to Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), "Some of these products are total rip offs," so bad, in fact, that AARP was forced to withdraw its Essential Health Insurance Plan and Essential Plus Health Insurance Plan, developed by United Health Group and sold to 44,000 of its members. (counterpunch.org)
  • We are allowed to dispute only the form and extent of class rationing. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • AIM: To assess the extent to which Canadian undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs have incorporated Canadian competencies for Registered Nurses in primary care into their curricula. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some cases of privatisation are widely recognised, while others are evolving and more hidden, and their extent differs across provinces and territories likely due in part to variability in policies governing private payment (out-of-pocket payments and private insurance) and delivery. (bvsalud.org)
  • Rounds says he frets about what many in his party call "death panels" and he refers to as rationing panels - or government committees that could withhold authorization for certain procedures in certain situations, possibly with life-and-death results. (madvilletimes.com)
  • Others had to forgo expensive specialty care even when their complex conditions pushed the bounds of my knowledge and training. (publichealthwatch.org)
  • The insurance companies have those committees themselves," Petersen said today, in a follow-up conversation about her discussion with Rounds. (madvilletimes.com)
  • The insurance companies pay their executives salaries of millions of dollars. (digboston.com)
  • Insurance companies have many complicated regulations and the fine print is often unintelligible and with horrible consequences. (digboston.com)
  • This legislation was written by the insurance companies and for the insurance companies. (digboston.com)
  • Prescription drugs are another issue altogether - pharmaceutical companies set prices arbitrarily and well beyond the reach of even the tough guys at U.S. insurance companies. (theglobalist.com)
  • When Katie tried to change insurance companies, she was sure to list her preexisting conditions on the application and even called her new company to confirm she'd be covered. (ucsb.edu)
  • The meat of the story isn't captured by the intro though - to sum up, basically, she got screwed over by the combination of insurance companies and doctors not coordinating well, and by switching insurance during treatment. (cubiclehermit.com)
  • But having health insurance won't protect her from price-gouging by opportunistic drug companies and drug middlemen. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • Because capitalism rules the world, its needs dominate and, therefore, medical care is rationed.Most people get only what they can pay for, or what employers, insurance companies and governments decide to provide. (susanrosenthal.com)
  • The pharmaceutical companies point to the pharmacy benefit managers, and the pharmacy benefit managers point to the pharmaceutical companies and insurance plans. (medscape.com)
  • Hospitals and physicians will no longer need huge billing departments to process complicated insurance forms. (digboston.com)
  • Join 44,000 physicians making a direct impact on health care legislation. (sccma.org)
  • An American Medical Association survey found 94% of physicians surveyed said that prior authorizations lead to delays in receiving care and 80% said that prior authorizations can lead to treatment abandonment. (penncapital-star.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Comprehensiveness of primary care has been declining, and much of the blame has been placed on early-career family physicians and their practice choices. (bvsalud.org)
  • We need to get corporate profits out of the health care equation. (digboston.com)
  • Their bottom line depends on refusing to pay for care and they are ruthless when it comes to protecting their profits. (penncapital-star.com)
  • U.S. Senate Republicans blocked legislation to cap insurance co-pays for insulin at $35. (iowacapitaldispatch.com)
  • In other words, separate legislation for the different problems in healthcare, which would (the argument goes) be more popular piece by piece, and therefore some good reforms would pass, while the broader reforms might take a while longer. (chrisweigant.com)
  • In fact of the 210 drugs approved by the FDA for use between 2010 and 2016, all were developed with National Institutes of Health (NIH) publicly funded research. (networklobby.org)
  • Many Canadian provinces also have laws that actively discourage - or straight-out prohibit - private insurance plans from covering any of the benefits included in the government program. (vox.com)
  • There's a provision on page 16 that once this goes into effect, a citizen with private insurance can't change it or add anybody to it. (windrosehotel.com)
  • PCIP is a federal version of the high-risk pool (or as I prefer to call it, preexisting-conditions or preex pool) subsidy that is employed in more than half the states to help private insurance markets work better. (freedomworks.org)
  • Last year, Republicans in Congress blocked a provision that would have extended the cap to people with private insurance. (protectourcare.org)