Call Your Senator and Help Give Doctors a Break
The proposed legislation will increase the number of resident physician positions supported by Medicare by 2,000 each year from 2023 to 2029.
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Read more: Saving Lives and Decreasing Costs: The Economic Case for Health Justice Saving Lives and Decreasing Costs: The Economic Case for Health Justice
Making the economic case for health justice, and noting how it is inextricably linked to the moral case, is crucial.
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Read more: Fixing Prices: Immigration and Physician Competition Fixing Prices: Immigration and Physician Competition
There are many highly-trained physicians in the world who would be happy to work in the U.S. Why not let them in and introduce some free-market competition?
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Read more: Possibilities and Pitfalls of Health Reform Through Budget Reconciliation Possibilities and Pitfalls of Health Reform Through Budget Reconciliation
Expanding health insurance coverage may be on the menu through budget reconciliation.
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Read more: Bail Out Humans Bail Out Humans
Our government bails out large risks in many arenas. Yet we fail to backstop the most human risk of all — our vulnerability to suffering and death.
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Read more: A Long View on Health Insurance Reform: The Case for an Employer Public Option A Long View on Health Insurance Reform: The Case for an Employer Public Option
The Biden administration should offer employers a Medicare-based public health insurance option for their employee coverage.
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Read more: Stop Playing Health Care Antitrust Whack-A-Mole Stop Playing Health Care Antitrust Whack-A-Mole
The Biden/Harris administration appears uniquely poised to implement a comprehensive initiative to address health care consolidation.
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Read more: Biden’s Early Focus: Durable and Attainable Private Insurance Biden’s Early Focus: Durable and Attainable Private Insurance
The focus of the nascent Biden administration has been on making private health insurance more durable, not deconstructing it.
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Read more: Price Transparency: Progress, But Not Yet Celebration Price Transparency: Progress, But Not Yet Celebration
Price transparency has long eluded the health care industry, but change — fueled by rare bipartisan support — is afoot.
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Read more: Be a Transformational President, Mr. Biden: Launch a Commission to Create an Ethical Health Care System Be a Transformational President, Mr. Biden: Launch a Commission to Create an Ethical Health Care System
My message for President Joe Biden and his administration is a simple one. Invite physicians to create an ethical health care system.
