By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center […]
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By Emily J. Plympton Dear Dr. Ghaly, We are writing to you on behalf of Healthcare For All – Los Angeles to express our grave concerns regarding the conduct and efficacy of this Commission. Thus far, it has failed to produce any policy directives or legislative suggestions to support its mission of
Letter to the Healthy California Commission Rebuttal Read More »
A new survey of 150,000 Americans finds private health care consistently ranks lower than public options.
Why do people hate universal health care? It turns out — they don’t. Read More »
I’ve heard a lot of confusion about the letter Governor Newsom sent about state single payer and waivers, and I wanted to clarify what exactly he said in that letter.
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Do business owners feel single-payer is the way to go? A recent study reveals they have strong—but decidedly mixed—opinions.
Single-payer or business-as-usual for health insurance? Business owners have opinions. Read More »
Background Overtreatment is a cause of preventable harm and waste in health care. Little is known about clinician perspectives on the problem. In this study, physicians were surveyed on the prevalence, causes, and implications of overtreatment. Findings The response rate was 70.1%. Physicians reported that an interpolated median of 20.6% of overall medical care was
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“Single-payer systems at the state-level, said one advocate of the new bill, would “demonstrate just how much better they are than our fragmented for-profit healthcare system.”
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A majority of voters support providing Medicare to every American, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Sixty-seven percent of registered voters in the July 26-27 survey said they would support providing Medicare to every American, while 33 percent oppose it. Support for providing Medicare to every American has dropped slightly since the question was first asked
Poll: 67 percent support providing Medicare for every American Read More »
Medicare for All would create millions of new jobs and boost wages for workers, Economic Policy Institute finds
Medicare for All would lead to job boom, experts say. SALON Read More »
NY Times Article by Sarah Kliff One coronavirus survivor manages her medical bills in color-coded folders: green, red and tan for different types of documents. A man whose father died of the virus last fall uses an Excel spreadsheet to organize the outstanding debts. It has 457 rows, one for each of his father’s bills,
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