Canada May Have the Cure For US's Medicare Ailment
by: Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co. | Op-Ed
I keep hearing people say that Medicare in its current form is not sustainable in the United States, as if that were an established fact. It’s anything but.
What is Medicare? It’s single-payer coverage for the elderly.
http://www.truth-out.org/print/3346
What is Medicare? It’s single-payer coverage for the elderly.
http://www.truth-out.org/print/3346
U.S. Plans Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of “mystery shoppers” to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.
Medicare: "Biggest Deficit Driver" or "Solution" to Economic Recovery?
by: Michele Swenson, Daily Kos [3] | Op-Ed
Biotech fights Medicare cost panel
Kerry is a target of lobbying effort
ADRIAN WALKER
A healthy dose of irony
Mitt Romney deserves to simply take a bow for his role in bringing health care coverage to almost everyone in Massachusetts, and he knows it. If only politics were so simple.
New Drugs Fight Prostate Cancer, but at High Cost
By ANDREW POLLACK
A group of new drugs is promising to prolong the lives and relieve the symptoms of men with advanced prostate cancer, but could also add billions of dollars to the nation’s medical bills.
Concerns About Costs Rise With Hospices’ Use
By JORDAN RAU
As she surveyed patients’ charts, Nancy Romeo, a medical review auditor at a hospice company, was surprised by the resilience of those supposedly near death.
One patient admitted to hospice care in 2002 was still healthy enough in 2007 to stroll around his yard at home, she found. Another patient received hospice care for four years before the company for which Ms. Romeo worked, SouthernCare, determined she was not dying. “I looked at charts every day, and almost every chart was inappropriate,” said Ms. Romeo, a nurse.
Legislators vow bill to curb health care costs
State legislative leaders made their strongest statements yet in support of placing significant cost controls on health care, predicting yesterday that they will agree on a bill as early as the fall.
ROBERT KUTTNER
RomneyCare vs. ObamaCare
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Tim Pawlenty was right. While he backed away from the nice term he coined — ObamneyCare — the health reforms enacted by then-governor Mitt Romney in 2006 and President Obama in 2010 have much in common, although both would deny it.
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