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206 Matching News Items

1.  A National Health Insurance Program for the United States: We Must Abandon Current Fragmented System (PDF)
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Dec. 1, 2004
4 pages. Excerpt: Many American physicians -- including myself -- believe that the funding infrastructure should be redesigned to maximize heath care resource allocation for the primary benefit of patients. Because of the failure of organized medicine to advocate on behalf of our patients, we decided that a new organization was needed. We established Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org).
2.  Rewarding Physicians for Providing Less Care: Physicians Cite Reasons Incentives Are Onerous
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Oct. 25, 2007
This item contains an excerpt from a Memphis Daily News article followed by comments from Don McCanne, MD.
3.  Executive Summary of the United States National Health Insurance Act
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Feb. 5, 2003
Excerpt: The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care program that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that all Americans, guaranteed by law, will have access to the highest quality and cost effective health care services regardless of one's employment, income, or health care status.
4.  Growth of National Health Expenditures, 2011
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Jan. 8, 2013
"In 2011, health care costs grew at the same rate as the growth in the gross domestic product (GDP). Thus the recent severe recession and slow recovery, plus the initial phase of implementation of the Affordable Care Act, have not had a major impact on the growth of health care spending."
5.  PNHP Fact Sheet: Health Savings Accounts -- No Savings (PDF)
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Sept. 1, 2005
3 pages. Excerpt: Advocates of HSAs contend that health insurance 'disguises' the true cost of health care. Patients with health insurance, advocates say, see the health services they receive as being 'free,' and therefore overuse them, causing health care costs to rise. This is known as the theory of 'moral hazard.' Health savings accounts purportedly solve this problem by forcing consumers to purchase health services 'with their own money.'
6.  'Accountable Care' Model Revives HMO Strategy, Boding Ill for Patients, Physicians
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Jan. 7, 2014
"The HMO model, touted as a cost-saving strategy (as are today's ACOs), was sometimes associated with flagrant abuses ... Although supporters of today's ACO model assert that the new structures will have safeguards against the cherry-picking healthy patients and care denials that characterized HMOs, the authors [of a recent article] write that the early HMO proponents made virtually identical promises."
7.  Health Insurance: Renew It or Lose It? WSJ Article Excerpt Followed by Comments from PNHP
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Nov. 16, 2007
Excerpt: In the past, if workers made no changes to their current health-care plan, they'd remain in the same plan the following year. But this year more companies are asking workers to re-enroll if they want to remain in their current plans.
8.  Impact of Prior Authorization on Patients and Physicians
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Mar. 20, 2018
"Our policymakers are still fixated on managed care, but their tool of prior authorization provides just one more demonstration on why the private insurers and their managed care excesses have to go.... 86 percent of physicians report that the prior authorization burden has increased over the past five years -- since the implementation of the [ACA]. That is a burden for both patients and their health care professionals that we need to dump."
9.  Physicians React to TIME Magazine's 'Bitter Pill' Article
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Mar. 13, 2013
"In 'Bitter Pill,' a well-researched and in many ways thoughtful essay, Steven Brill gets all the data right, but then draws conclusions that are surprisingly off the mark.... The largest single expense in American medicine is the administrative costs of private insurance that would be recovered with a single payer financing plan -- that's $350 billion annually and rising."
10.  Fact Sheet on the Uninsured and Proposed Massachusetts Health Reforms (PDF)
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Apr. 6, 2006
2 pages. The Physicians for a National Health Program – Massachusetts Chapter provides this fact sheet.
11.  50 Doctors for Single Payer Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Individual Mandate
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Feb. 16, 2012
"PNHP note: An amicus curiae brief challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act -- and noting that, by contrast, a single-payer, Medicare-for-All or VA-for-All-type system would be constitutional -- was filed Tuesday by 50 physicians who support single payer. While Physicians for a National Health Program has taken no position on the constitutionality of any of the ACA's provisions, we think readers will find the brief described below makes some interesting points."
12.  A Physician's Perspective on EBRI's Report on HSAs
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Feb. 16, 2014
"[O]nly a small fraction of one percent of our national health expenditures comes from health savings accounts. Since most people with HSAs will go ahead and get the care that they need, their diligent shopping can only have had an impact on maybe ten percent of the HSA spending, meaning that HSAs may have reduced spending by only about one one-hundredth of one percent of our NHE.... What really is important is the high-deductible insurance plan that is coupled with the HSA. That is what makes the patient a 'diligent' shopper, except that it really doesn't since most of our health expenditures are not amenable to shopping."
13.  PNHP Statement on the Supreme Court Deliberation of the Affordable Care Act
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Mar. 26, 2012
"Regardless of whether the Supreme Court upholds or overturns the Affordable Care Act in whole or in part, the unfortunate reality is that federal health law of 2010 will not work: (1) it will not achieve universal coverage, as it leaves at least 26 million uninsured, (2) it will not make health care affordable to Americans with insurance, because gaps in their policies will leave them vulnerable to bankruptcy in the event of major illness, and (3) it will not control costs."
14.  CMS Pilot Program for Judging Breadth of Narrow Networks
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Oct. 17, 2016
"When the problem is that insurers are limiting patients' choices in their health care, CMS decides that the solution should be to merely tweak the system with more transparency while keeping it intact. The solution needed is to eliminate the restrictive provider list, allowing patient access to the entire health care delivery system."
15.  A Physician Responds: Thoughts on the 2014 Milliman Medical Index
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
May 23, 2014
"Although the rate of increase in the MMI has decreased to 5.4%, that is still a one year increase in health spending of $1,185.... [I]ncreasing proportions of the cost increases have nominally been shifted to the family -- through higher payroll deductions and greater out-of-pocket costs. In actuality, most economists agree that the employer's share of the costs is actually paid by the employee in the form of forgone wage increases.... Thomas Piketty's treatise on Capital in the 21st Century describes our inequality in income and wealth. It takes very little imagination to see how a publicly financed single payer system would slightly temper the inequities while ensuring health care for everyone."
16.  Future of Large-Employer Health Benefit Programs
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Sept. 3, 2012
"Health benefit programs of large employers have been the mainstay of health care coverage for working families. The [ACA] relies heavily on the stability of these programs. However, only 23 percent of these employers are very confident that they will continue to offer health care benefits ten years from now.... [O]ne trend that is of concern is the greater reliance on high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts or health reimbursement arrangements ... Although these plans seem to be satisfactory for the healthy workforce and their young healthy families who really don't need much care, there remains the serious concern that such accounts deter patients with significant needs from receiving the care that they should have."
17.  Can We Control Costs Through Checkups and Wellness Programs for the Healthy?
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Jan. 16, 2013
"General health checks are one of the most common reasons adults seek medical care, with an estimated 44 million seeing a physician for this reason each year from 2002 through 2004. During these health checks, an estimated $322 million is spent annually on laboratory tests that no guideline groups recommend. The costs of downstream testing and overtreatment are likely to be much larger.... It is likely that follow-up testing from general health checks substantially contributes to the estimated $210 billion in annual spending on unnecessary medical services."
18.  America's Health Insurance Plans' Definition of Equity - The Principles of Pricing Health Insurance
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Apr. 11, 2008
Excerpt: And how does the private insurance industry define equity in the pricing of health insurance premiums? The premium that 'EACH insured pays must reflect the expected cost of providing coverage to THAT insured,' but not 'an extra amount to make up for those paying less than cost.' So let's see how that would work in a system that finances health care for everyone. The 80 percent of individuals (243 million people) who use 20 percent of our national health expenditures ($479 billion) would each be responsible for $1970 in an equitable system, according to the insurance industry's version. The other 20 percent of individuals (61 million people) who use 80 percent of our national health expenditures ($1,915 billion) would each be responsible for $31,400 in AHIP's version of equity.
19.  Physician-Hospital-Insurer Entities Forming Narrow Networks
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Oct. 15, 2013
"We've watched as insurers have consolidated. Although they tout that they are providing higher quality at lower costs through managed care, in fact they have used their oligopolistic leverage to limit patient access to their selected network providers.... In response, we are witnessing an explosion in consolidation of health care providers -- hospitals and physician groups -- often into single entities."
20.  Our Next Health Care Debate
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
Aug. 30, 2017
"There is a night and day difference between financing health care in the marketplace through private insurance and financing it through a government national health program. One is framed around businesses and the other is framed around patients. Today the conservatives and neoliberals are offering us only the business approach supervised by the medical-industrial complex."
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