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"Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" Provides Renewal For The Movement

Don McCanne | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | February 15, 2013

Congressman John Conyers has reintroduced his bill for a single payer national health program: H.R. 676, "Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act." Some perspective is warranted. Read More »

2013: The Tipping Point In Health Care

Paul H. Keckley | Deloitte | January 3, 2012

In the health care industry, 2013 will be a huge year: the perfect storm of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the fiscal cliff and long-term deficit reduction, consumer dissatisfaction, and higher costs mean it’s a year when results matter.

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500 Groups Urge Congress To Kill IPAB

Julie Bird | FierceHealthcare | April 26, 2013

Pressure continues building to kill Medicare's Independent Payment Advisory Board, with more than 500 organizations banding together to send a letter to Congress on Thursday urging its repeal. Read More »

70% Of Providers Don’t Think Accountable Care Is Worth It

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | June 2, 2014

Despite widespread participation in value-based payment arrangements, few providers think that accountable care reimbursement structures offer enough reward for the risk.  Half of providers believe that value-based reimbursement will eventually foster population health, reduce costs, and improve the patient experience, says a new report from Availity, but 80% have found a need for more staff, more time, and more investments in order to make it work...

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A Pro- Single Payer Doctor’s Concerns About Obamacare

Adam Gaffney | Salon.com | April 11, 2014

Believe me, the right's approach would be much worse. But the underinsured are getting a worse deal than you think

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A Single-Payer System Would Reduce U.S. Health Care Costs

Ed Weisbart | Virtual Mentor | November 1, 2012

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is introducing insurance reforms that will improve the lives of millions of Americans, but we need to go much further to solve the crisis in health care. Read More »

ACA Fosters 'Fertile Time For Healthcare Investments'

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | April 18, 2013

The healthcare industry has been notoriously slow at identifying methods and tools it needs to reduce costs and improve quality noted a report by healthcare investment firm the Psilos Group, but health reform is producing promising opportunities for investors to fuel needed innovations. Read More »

All Eyes On Jeff Zients, Healthcare.gov's ER Surgeon

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 23, 2013

To lead a sort of tech worker surge and software code purge for Healthcare.gov, the Obama Administration has brought in a turnaround guy, Jeffrey Zients. Read More »

Americans' Understanding Of ACA Is 'Staggeringly Low', Harvard Professor Says

Rene Letourneau | Government Health IT | October 22, 2012

The Affordable Care Act has polarized Republicans and Democrats despite the fact that many voters cannot explain the healthcare reform legislation to any significant degree, said Robert Blendon, ScD, professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health during a speech to the Massachusetts Medical Society on Oct. 18. Read More »

AMGA Defines High-Performing Health Systems

Diana Manos | Healthcare IT News | October 4, 2012

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced Thursday its definition of high-performing health systems. Leaders of the trade association said they issued the definition to educate legislators and the public about the need for meaningful change to improve patient care. Read More »

Applying The Lessons Learned In Other Industries To Health Care

Margalit Gur-Arie | KevinMD.com | May 22, 2014

While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multitude of experts in the field found it useful and enlightening to compare health care to a variety of more familiar industries, and to suggest that health care should adopt operational models that have been shown to work well in those other industries...

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As Vermont Goes Single Payer, So Goes The Nation?

Molly Worthen | SundayReview | April 5, 2014

Three years ago, Peter Shumlin, the governor of Vermont, signed a bill creating Green Mountain Care: a single-payer system in which, if all goes according to plan, the state will regulate doctors’ fees and cover Vermonters’ medical bills.

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Axial Exchange Ranks Florida Hospitals With New Patient Engagement Index

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | April 5, 2013

Axial Exchange, a developer of patient engagement technologies, unveiled this week its Patient Engagement Index, which ranks U.S. hospitals based on how involved their patient communities are with their own care. Read More »

Berwick Platform: ‘Seriously’ Explore Single Payer, Review Cost Control

Carey Goldberg | NPR Boston | November 21, 2013

Granted, a candidate releasing his platform on health care for a race that’s a full year away might not strike you as big breaking news...That candidate is Dr. Donald Berwick, former chief of Medicare in the Obama administration, and that territory is the idea of a “single-payer” system — a sort of “Medicare for all” that’s common in other developed countries but that faces some strong opposition in the United States...

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Better Quality Measures Mean Better Quality Care

Alicia Caramenico | FierceHealthcare | June 27, 2013

Healthcare has a long way to go to close quality and cost gaps, a task that requires meaningful, well-understood quality measures, former Medicare Administrator Mark McClellan, M.D., told the Senate Finance Committee yesterday at a hearing on healthcare quality. Read More »