Medical System
How “Medicare for All” and Other Bills Would Change Health Care
By Shanoor Seervai with Sara Collins for The Commonwealth. Several bills introduced in Congress over the past year seek to make health care more accessible to all Americans while also tamping down growing health care… Read More
Pros, Cons of Single-payer Health Care Aired at Hearing
By KAREN DEWITT , WXXI News. A hearing on single-payer health care drew a big crowd at a hearing at the State Capitol on Tuesday. The New York State Legislature held a daylong hearing Tuesday… Read More
The U.S. Health Care System: An International Perspective Fact Sheet 2016
From Department for Professional Employees AFL-CIO. The U.S. health care system is unique among advanced industrialized countries. The U.S. does not have a uniform health system, has no universal health care coverage, and only recently… Read More
Health-care Consolidation Threatens People in Small Communities
By Brian Alexander, The Atlantic. This is the story of a small-town, publicly-owned hospital that, after thriving for decades, is struggling and now in all likelihood about to be appended to a large regional health-care… Read More
Is Your Doctor Banned From Practicing in Other States?
State Licensing System Keeps Patients, Hospitals and Regulators in the Dark. By John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Matt Wynn and Kristina Fiore of MedPage Today. Like traveling medicine hucksters of old, doctors who run into trouble today can… Read More
Why Independent Doctors Need the Support of Patients
America’s Doctors Are Facing an Epidemic. By Association of Independent Doctors. Every day hospitals are buying up medical practices, turning independent doctors into hospital employees. That trend is not healthy for patients or for doctors. It hurts… Read More
Why Health Care Won’t Be a Free Market
By Unigadon, Commonweal Magazine. We don’t know much about health-care prices or what we are actually paying for, nor do we know much about the quality of what we are trying to choose. A great… Read More
New Health Rankings: Of 11 Nations, U.S. Is Dead Last
From The Commonwealth Fund. According to a recent publication from the Commonwealth Fund, based on a broadly inclusive set of performance metrics, the U.S. health care system performance ranks last among 11 high-income countries. Among the… Read More
Health Care’s Crushing Lack Of Competition Causing Increased Prices and Poor Results
By Martin Gaynor, Farzad Mostashari and Paul Ginsburg for Forbes. No matter how it resolves, the fiercely partisan debate over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act will not solve America’s true health care crisis. Indeed,… Read More