Answer: $32 trillion over 10 years is one guess. Actually, it will devour every dollar that can be taken from taxpayers or creditors and diverted to the system. Bernie Sanders himself pegged the price of […]
Answer: Whomever it pleases. Some money will trickle down to those who help patients, but 40% or more may be siphoned off en route. It is often asserted that Medicare is the very model of […]
Answer: Younger and less experienced physicians, foreign physicians, subservient physicians, non-physicians—or possibly no one. Having an insurance card doesn’t help if there are 50 people ahead of you in the waiting room—and the doctor is […]
Answer: If the condition is “covered,” it could be illegal for anyone other than the single payer to pay for treatment—so it will be unavailable. Charlie Gard, not Billy Kimmel, is the face of single […]
Bernie Sanders is introducing his “Medicare for All” proposal, with the support of at least 15 Democrat senators, including all considered likely to be presidential hopefuls in 2020. Could a “fringe” proposal, which would “never, […]
While a narrow majority of 1,033 physicians surveyed by Merritt Hawkins strongly (42%) or somewhat (14%) support a “single payer healthcare system” in the U.S., more than 90% of 1,208 persons responding to an internet […]
The latest legislative update from Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD: It has been quiet on the health care scene since the epic fail of the Senate’s half-hearted attempt to pass a “repeal and replace” healthcare bill. […]
In comments submitted to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Monday, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) asked for significant changes to regulations that imperil the medical care of 57 million seniors and millions […]
Re: Comments on “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Reducing Regulatory Burdens and Improving Health Care Choices To Empower Patients” Docket No. CMS-9928-NC, RIN 0938-ZB39 Thank you for this opportunity to submit comments to CMS […]
“This bill zeroes out the penalties for not buying an unaffordable, undesirable product (the individual and employer mandates), but continues the mandates that make health plans unaffordable: guaranteed issue, community rating, and restrictions on true […]
