This Viewpoint reviews the discrepancy in prices paid for hospital services by commercial insurers vs Medicare and Medicaid, and calls for greater hospital accountability, cost transparency, and data to guide pricing so that the cost of services are benchmarked to the value they offer patients and paying employers rather than the negotiating leverage of health care organizations.
Month: July 2019
The Trailer: The Democrats’ fault lines on health care
In this edition: The Medicare-for-all debate in Iowa, the DNC's Friday fundraising news drop, and the Gravel teens go out swinging.
Biden campaign rips ‘Medicare for All,’ calls on Dems to protect Affordable Care Act
Joe Biden's presidential campaign expanded his critiques against "Medicare for All" and pressed its opponents to fight to protect and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which the former vice president played a crucial...
Radical or Incremental? What’s Really In Joe Biden’s Health Plan
The Biden plan released this week is an update of the Affordable Care Act with controversial differences. Among them: a "public option" that covers abortion, and subsidized premiums for more people.
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The midlife crisis is getting worse
The way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spending winters in Florida and checking off destinations on her bucket list. But it hasn’t turned out that way.
Instead of more time spent in Florida, sh...
Health industry tweets about Pride but stays silent on rule to undo protections for LGBTQ patients
Many influential players in the health industry have stayed silent since the Trump administration proposed undoing civil rights protections for LGBTQ patients in late May. But these muted responses haven’t gone unnoticed, especially when those who say they support LGBTQ rights, and celebrated Pride Month through social media, don’t speak up.
ThinkProgress reached out to seven insurers and insurance middlemen who either met with HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, the Office of...
Kamala Harris continues to clarify her stance on Medicare for All
The senator has given some conflicting answers on what sort of health care policy she supports and how she would pay for it
Sanders: Biden ‘sounding like Donald Trump’ on Medicare for All
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that former Vice President Joe Biden "is sounding like Donald Trump" on health care, escalating the battle between the 2020 presidential rivals. "I am disappointe...