Tag: health system
Walmart’s New Clinics Are a Free Market Experiment in Health Care Reform
Medicare for All: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Unlike Rivals, Buttigieg Health Plan Reduces Deficit And Covers 30M
““The four leading candidates would all spend money to expand coverage and they would all raise taxes to help cover the costs,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget senior vice president Marc Goldwein said in an interview Friday. “We estimate only one candidate would actually raise enough to assure their plan doesn’t add to the national debt.”
With the higher price tags come lower out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans under the Warren and Sanders plans.”
Sorry, Bernie Sanders: Taiwan’s Single Payer System Isn’t an Argument for Medicare for All
“Sanders’ Medicare for All bill calls for no copays and no premiums and effectively outlaws private insurance as we know it. It is substantially more generous than Taiwan’s system, which means it would be substantially more expensive.”
Healthcare.gov glitches almost ruined the end of open enrollment. Is there a better way?
“In the Netherlands, people who don’t sign up for their universal private coverage during the annual enrollment period are automatically enrolled in a plan and have to pay a premium 20 percent higher than what they would have paid if they signed up voluntarily. The Dutch have achieved 99 percent coverage under such a system, which shares other features with Obamacare (like subsidies and the ban on preexisting conditions).”