Health Care Jujitsu
Not surprisingly, yesterday’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the...
View ArticleObamacare In Pictures
By J.D. KLEINKE A seasoned colleague recently told me that some PowerPoint presentations have no power and make no point. But sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Or maybe — in the...
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Is “Medicare For All (Who Want it)” Enough?
By MIKE MAGEE In the 2nd night of the Democratic Primary debate on June 27, 2019, Pete Buttigieg was asked whether he supported Medicare-For-All. He responded, “I support Medicare for all who want...
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Will Amazon Deliver a Single-Payer Health Care System for the U.S.?
By JOE GRACE Amazon has quietly put together a syndicate including Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan to provide better and more affordable health care for their combined 1.2 million workers. The joint...
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Off the Couch, Onto the Stage: My First, Only and Not-So-Great Presidential...
DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JULY 31: Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden (C) speaks while Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) (R) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) listen during the Democratic...
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A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
By STEVE ZECOLA Americans spend about $3 trillion per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international...
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Why Medicare for All Will Not Cure What Ails the Hahnemann
By ASEEM R. SHUKLA, MD The impending closure of Hahnemann University Hospital is a local tragedy. Eliminating a 170-year old institution is certain to exaggerate the daily travails of the...
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$2 Trillion+ in New Taxes for Single Payer, or $50 Billion to Strengthen...
By BOB HERTZ It is not wise for Democrats to spend all their energy debating Single Payer health care solutions. None of their single player plans has much chance to pass in 2020, especially under...
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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....
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Charting 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...
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Your 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...
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Understanding #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...
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Physicians 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...
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Why 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...
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Careful 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...
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Time 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...
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Never 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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