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Oct 17, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Steffie Woolhandler |David Himmelstein |Adam Gaffney
“We take it back,” Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, two of America’s most prominent health economists, declare in a new book, We’ve Got You Covered, their blueprint for reforming our health care system. After years of preaching “the gospel” that “patients must pay something for their care,” they’ve now abandoned the message. Instead they propose tax-funded “basic” health coverage—without copayments, deductibles, or other forms of “cost-sharing”—for all Americans.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Steffie Woolhandler |David Himmelstein |Elizabeth Schrier |Hope E.M. Schwartz
Adobe By Steffie Woolhandler, David U.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
medrxiv.org | Jacob Bor |Rafeya Raquib |David Himmelstein |Steffie Woolhandler
The authors have declared no competing interest. The authors (ACS, JB, RR) acknowledge financial support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (P-6007864-2022). I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Adam Gaffney |David Himmelstein |Steffie Woolhandler
The very “choice” that Medicare Advantage is said to offer is undermining Medicare’s promise of equal and universal care for seniors. Medicare Advantage—the privatized Medicare plans run by insurance firms but funded by the federal government—rips off taxpayers. On this there is little controversy.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
portside.org | Adam Gaffney |David Himmelstein |Steffie Woolhandler
Medicare Dis-Advantage: Overpayments and Inequity Published July 1, 2024 Medicare Advantage—the privatized Medicare plans run by insurance firms but funded by the federal government—rips off taxpayers. On this there is little controversy.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Adam Gaffney |David Himmelstein |Steffie Woolhandler
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
acpjournals.org | Steffie Woolhandler |David Himmelstein
Get full access to this articleView all available purchase options and get full access to this article. References1. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy. 15 March 2024. Accessed at www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar24_MedPAC_Report_To_Congress_SEC.pdf on 17 May 2024. 2. Park S, Meyers DJ, Trivedi AN. Association of Medicare Advantage enrollment with financial burden of care. A retrospective cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 25 June 2024.
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May 3, 2024 | 
sun-sentinel.com | Samuel L. Dickman |Steffie Woolhandler
Florida’s restrictive new abortion law, despite its “rape exception,” will force thousands of Florida women and girls impregnated by a rapist to choose between bearing their rapist’s child and fleeing the state. How many? In a study on the 14 states that had banned abortion published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine, we estimated that 64,565 women and girls had become pregnant after rape since the bans took effect.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
acpjournals.org | Adam Gaffney |David Himmelstein |Steffie Woolhandler
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic’s onset coincided with decreasing chronic airway disease exacerbations, attributed to reduced circulation of common respiratory viruses and possibly other disruptions (1, 2). Objective: To determine whether this decrease narrowed disparities in asthma morbidity nationwide. Methods: We analyzed adults (n = 120 698) and children (n = 30 708) in the 2019 to 2022 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (3).
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May 2, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Steffie Woolhandler
Interview by Jonathan Michels Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) emerged thirty-five years ago amid the austerity cuts of the Reagan administration, which threatened to hollow out critical social safety-net programs like Medicaid. Rather than marshaling physician support to defend the limited (albeit lifesaving) poverty program, PNHP opted instead to pour its energies into expanding the possibilities of what health care reform could look like in the United States.
