More Debate on the Future of Primary Care

Byadmin March 8, 2013

Recently, I posted in Forbes about our need to rethink primary care, to avoid a physician shortage. The debate continues, as seen in this interesting post from Dan Diamond.
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Unnecessarily Uninsured
Byadmin October 21, 2015

This picture, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, shows that many people who lack health insurance in the United States right now are actually eligible for either Medicaid or federally subsidized private insurance.

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Can States Afford to Take Federal Medicaid Dollars?
Byadmin February 15, 2013

States face a tough choice right now, of whether to expand their Medicaid roles with 90% of the costs being borne by the government. (Medicaid is a combined Federal/State program to pay for healthcare of low income individuals and families.) Why is taking money from the Feds a tough decision? For starters, it means supporting,…

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Medicaid Expansion/Lack of Expansion Plans: In A Map
Byadmin March 25, 2014

For anyone interested in health policy, Sarah Kliff at the Washington Post has perhaps the most useful and informative blog to be found. Here’s a picture she posted recently, showing the status of state Medicaid programs, in a post exploring which states she expects to be revisiting their decisions about how, or whether, to expand in…

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The True Cost Of Low Drug Prices
Byadmin January 5, 2015

India is not, yet, a wealthy country. Nevertheless its people experience many of the same expensive-to-treat illnesses as wealthier populations in the U.S. and Europe. Therefore the country has made a series of policy decisions designed to lower the cost of medical treatments. For example, until 2005, it offered no – I repeat, no –…

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Disliking Obamacare despite Benefiting from It
Byadmin August 17, 2015

No surprise to learn that the majority of Republicans dislike Obamacare. But did you know that the majority of Republicans, who SIGNED UP FOR INSURANCE through Obamacare, still dislike the law? That’s one finding from a recent Kaiser survey: Notably, they dislike the law even though they LIKE THEIR INSURANCE: I look forward to the…

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How not to let a crisis go to waste
Byadmin March 23, 2011

Here is a blog post I wrote for the Hastings Center, laying out some hopeful thoughts about how we can use Medicaid crises, which are occurring in so many states right now, to figure out how to control health care costs.

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More Debate on the Future of Primary Care

Unnecessarily Uninsured

Can States Afford to Take Federal Medicaid Dollars?

Medicaid Expansion/Lack of Expansion Plans: In A Map

The True Cost Of Low Drug Prices

Disliking Obamacare despite Benefiting from It

How not to let a crisis go to waste

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