…for a National Health Program, National Single Payer, and others last year, as well as legislation to establish a national single-payer health insurance program. The president, CMS and Congress must hear from constituents, not just industry,…

…The phrase “value-based payment” emerged in the 2000s as the label for all methods of payment that shift insurance risk from insurance companies and public programs like Medicare onto health…

…favors Medicare for all: a singlepayer health care system, with the federal government as the sole insurer. This would remove the profit motive from health insurance but not from health…

…payment that shift insurance risk from insurance companies and public programs like Medicare onto health care providers. Risk is shifted by paying providers a set fee per patient per year…

…Molina), have all found their way to MA as their preferred business opportunity. Most recently new MA startups have been prominent, including Clover Health, Devoted Health, and Alignment Health. One…

…for killing health-industry executives. Murder is evil, and in this case it’s also stupid. The problem with the U.S. health insurance industry isn’t that it’s run by bad people, it’s…

…the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, as introduced by several House committees on July 14. Earlier this week, CBO released a preliminary report on the health insurance coverage…

…Health Cost Growth, Health Affairs, Authors. Consistently healthcare exceeds growth in the gross domestic product. The rising costs of health care impose an increasing burden on consumers, employers, and federal and…

…it a fiscal cliff or merely a bump in the road; We face an ‘austerity crisis’ not a ‘fiscal cliff. A. The Explanation. At least the national media and a…

…Tell that to the millions the free market leaves out and then add to that Wisconsin’s refusal to expand Medicaid to cover health insurance for tens of thousands of low-income…