BetterCare for All
By ROBERT M. HERZOG The Cure for healthcare isn’t Medicare for All, it’s establishing organizations with complete responsibility for the total care, costs, quality and outcomes for a person....
View ArticleCharting The Economic History of US Health Reform
By MIKE MAGEE, MD Adam Gaffney’s recent Boston Review article, “What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong”, a landmark piece that deserves careful reading by all, reaches near perfection in...
View ArticleYour Wealth is Your Health
By KIM BELLARD We’ve been spending a lot of time these past few years debating healthcare reform. First the Affordable Care Act was debated, passed, implemented, and almost continuously litigated...
View ArticleUnderstanding #Medicare4All & the Democratic Primaries
By MATTHEW HOLT Since Saturday’s Nevada primaries, confusion seems to be reigning about how Bernie Sanders seems to be winning. Time (and not a lot more of it) will tell who actually ends up as the...
View ArticlePhysicians Should Lead on Healthcare Reform
By KEN TERRY (This is the first in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician...
View ArticleWhy Health Systems Employ Doctors: Money and Control
By KEN TERRY (This is the third in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician...
View ArticleCareful What You Wish For: How Republican Attorneys General’s Attack on the...
By MIKE MAGEE Cautionary tales are timeless. Take for example Aesop’s Fables, from 620 BC, which included the advisory, “Be careful what you wish for lest it come true.” Trump and the Republicans who...
View ArticleTime to Reboot “Medicare-For-All”
By MIKE MAGEE In the fog of the Covid pandemic, many are wondering what ever happened to prior vocal support for universal coverage and Medicare-for-All. Expect those issues to regain prominence in...
View ArticleMatthew’s health care tidbits
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the...
View ArticleNever Waste a (Design) Crisis
By KIM BELLARD The Wall Street Journal reported that the American Dental Association (ADA) opposes expanding Medicare to include dental benefits. My reaction was, well, of course they do. They...
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