‘Moral Hazard’ In Health Care: Duplicity On Steroids
Under the theory of moral hazard, it is postulated that insured people overuse health care services and that patients themselves are a leading cause of health care inflation. If they would just have...
View ArticleLive or Die: Do We Care Anymore?
We saw in our last post how the intensifying class war in America over the last 30 years has hollowed out the middle class and led to the widest gap between the haves and have nots in our country’s...
View ArticleCATHOLIC HOSPITAL SYSTEMS: A GROWING THREAT TO ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES
by John Geyman, M.D. http://blog.hc-disconnects.com/2014/03/10/catholic-hospital-systems-a-growing-threat-to-access-to-reproductive-services.aspx Expansion of Catholic hospital systems is accelerating...
View ArticleCANCER CARE IN THE U.S.—ACHILLES HEEL OF A PROFIT-DRIVEN SYSTEM
Care of cancer in this country is outpacing other health care problems and is already pricing itself beyond the reach of many Americans unfortunate enough to contract the disease. In my 2009 book, The...
View ArticleBrill’s Bitter Pill: Accurate Diagnosis, Inadequate Treatment
Steven Brill, author of the well-known 2013 Special Report, Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us, in Time magazine has just released his new book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals,...
View ArticleObamacare at Age Five: Access to Care
by John Geyman, M.D. Author of How Obamacare is Unsustainable. Now that Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) is just turning five years since its enactment in 2010, it is time to assess its...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act at Age Five: Quality of Care
www.copernicus-healthcare.org • www.johngeymanmd.org Having looked in the last two posts at access and affordable costs of care five years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we now...
View ArticleThe ACA at Age Five: What Lessons Can We Draw?
Having assessed in the last three posts the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) over the last five years, we have seen that the ACA will not bring universal access, contain health care costs for...
View ArticlePrivatization of Medicare: Urgency of the Latest Threat
http://www.johngeymanmd.org This is a dangerous time for Medicare. The bill passed by the House on March 27, by a surprising bipartisan majority of 392-37—H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP...
View ArticleWhy the Private Health Insurance Industry Has to Go
http://www.johngeymanmd.org The private health insurance industry in the U.S. has had a long run since shifting to medical underwriting and a for-profit status in the early 1960s. It finds itself...
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