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How to Stop the Bouncing Between Insurance Plans Under Obamacare - The New York Times
How to Stop the Bouncing Between Insurance Plans Under Obamacare - The New York Times
Comment by Don McCanne
Dhruv Khullar has provided us with an important policy lesson. He seems to be amongst
those who believe that we should accept Obamacare (ACA) as a given and build on it through incremental reform. Amongst the multitude of problems with ACA, he has selected as an example the issue of churning in and out of Medicaid and the private ACA exchange plans. What does he
propose?
those who believe that we should accept Obamacare (ACA) as a given and build on it through incremental reform. Amongst the multitude of problems with ACA, he has selected as an example the issue of churning in and out of Medicaid and the private ACA exchange plans. What does he
propose?
He suggests reducing churning by offering twelve-month eligibility for Medicaid, and he suggests aligning benefits and provider networks between Medicaid managed care and private ACA exchange plans - a proposal with obvious profound administrative complexity. Further, when these anti-hurning measures are implemented, he concedes that “the patchwork of health care in the United States may make some amount of churning unavoidable.”
This is the policy lesson. Our fragmented, dysfunctional financing infrastructure is so highly flawed that patches to it will have very little impact in moving us closer to the ideal of a quality health care
system that serves all of us well. In contrast, the patches themselves lead to further administrative waste with associated higher costs.
The obvious answer to churning is to have a single, well-designed Medicare for all program in which individuals are enrolled for life. That would also take care of most of the multitude of other health care financing problems that Dhruv Khullar nor I could address here.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
American Medical Association Votes to BAN Prescription Drug CommercialsREALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information
American Medical Association Votes to BAN Prescription Drug CommercialsREALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information
Please ban them. They banned cigs and booz -- need to ban these too.
Please ban them. They banned cigs and booz -- need to ban these too.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Why more than half of hospital bills don’t get paid
Why more than half of hospital bills don’t get paid
High Deductibles can mean bankruptcy too. No Surprise.
High Deductibles can mean bankruptcy too. No Surprise.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
FIX IT: Healthcare
at the Tipping Point
A film will be shown
free March 20th @ 3:00 at the Big River Theatre in Alma.
The film is less
than an hour and we will have time for Q&A after.
The Great Northern
States Health Care Initiative is sponsoring this event sharing the
documentary film: “FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point”.
We have, along with
many others around the nation, been spending decades looking for ways
to improve access to health care, reduce costs for patients and find
ways to make sure all citizens can get the health care they need
without going bankrupt and without it depending on what job you have.
With all the
political talk going on about this topic this film brings a unique
perspective. It comes from the business view on how it affects the
company and their employees.
This film
illustrates in straight-forward fashion the fiscal case for reform.
It comprehensively explains the problems of--and provides the
solutions to--the dysfunction that plagues the healthcare payment
systems in the U.S. Our healthcare sector is eating the rest of the
U.S. economy alive. But we can and will wrestle this runaway freight
train to the ground by embracing internationally recognized "best
practices" for health system design.
Richard Master, a
Corporate CEO and the Executive Producer of the Fix It movie writes:
There...”is a
solution to the runaway costs, and the increasingly restrictive lack
of access to needed care in the U.S. healthcare system.”
We want to invite
all to come and want to thank Big River Theatre for hosting this
film. (voluntary donations to them to help cover utility costs will
be appreciated).
Craig Brooks,
Buffalo City
OBO Great River
States Health Care Initiative
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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