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MR. SPEAKER, only ONE THING can improve Obamacare. MEDICARE FOR ALL
Medicare For All
Single Payer National Healthcare
call it what you want
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/upshot/health-insurance-medicare-obamacare-american-health-care-act.html
Loss Aversion, Trump and the New Opening for Medicare for All
MARCH 24, 2017
Republicans are in a bind. They’ve been promising to repeal Obamacare for seven years, and now, having won control of the White House and Congress, they must try to deliver. But while their bitter denunciations of the Affordable Care Act may have depressed its approval numbers, they haven’t made replacing it any easier.
On the contrary, the repeal-and-replace bill designed by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan has drawn withering criticism from the left and the right. Liberals condemn its use of reductions in health coverage for the poor to pay for large tax cuts for the wealthy, while conservatives bemoan its retention of many subsidies adopted under Obamacare.
In the end, the repeal effort’s biggest hurdle may be loss aversion, one of the most robust findings in behavioral science. As numerous studies have shown, the pain of losing something you already have is much greater than the pleasure of having gained it in the first place. And the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that Mr. Ryan’s American Health Care Act (A.H.C.A.) would cause more than 14 million people to lose coverage in the first year alone, with total losses rising to 24 million over the next decade. Many Republicans in Congress appear nervous about the political firestorm already provoked by the mere prospect of such losses.
Loss Aversion, Trump and the New Opening for Medicare for All
MARCH 24, 2017
Republicans are in a bind. They’ve been promising to repeal Obamacare for seven years, and now, having won control of the White House and Congress, they must try to deliver. But while their bitter denunciations of the Affordable Care Act may have depressed its approval numbers, they haven’t made replacing it any easier.
On the contrary, the repeal-and-replace bill designed by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan has drawn withering criticism from the left and the right. Liberals condemn its use of reductions in health coverage for the poor to pay for large tax cuts for the wealthy, while conservatives bemoan its retention of many subsidies adopted under Obamacare.
In the end, the repeal effort’s biggest hurdle may be loss aversion, one of the most robust findings in behavioral science. As numerous studies have shown, the pain of losing something you already have is much greater than the pleasure of having gained it in the first place. And the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that Mr. Ryan’s American Health Care Act (A.H.C.A.) would cause more than 14 million people to lose coverage in the first year alone, with total losses rising to 24 million over the next decade. Many Republicans in Congress appear nervous about the political firestorm already provoked by the mere prospect of such losses.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2017/february/single-payer-reform-is-%E2%80%98the-only-way-to-fulfill-the-president%E2%80%99s-pledge%E2%80%99-on-health
February 21, 2017
Single-payer reform is ‘the only way to fulfill the president’s pledge’ on health care: Annals of Internal Medicine commentary
Researchers estimate administrative savings at $504 billion annually
Proposals floated by Republican leaders won’t achieve President Trump’s campaign promises of more coverage, better benefits, and lower costs, but a single-payer reform would, according to a commentary published today [Tuesday, Feb. 21] in Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the nation’s most prestigious and widely cited medical journals.
Republicans promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the first day of the Trump presidency. But the health reform effort has stalled because Republicans in Congress have been unable to come up with a better replacement and fear a backlash against plans that would deprive millions of coverage and raise deductibles.
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Woolhandler and Himmelstein review evidence that, in contrast, single-payer reform could provide comprehensive first-dollar coverage to all Americans within the current budgetary envelope because of vast savings on health care bureaucracy and profits. The authors estimate that a streamlined, publicly financed single-payer program would save $504 billion annually on health care paperwork and profits, including $220 billion on insurance overhead, $150 billion in hospital billing and administration and $75 billion doctors’ billing and paperwork. They estimate that an additional $113 billion could be saved each year by hard bargaining with drug companies over prices. A table in the paper summarizes these savings.
The savings would cover the cost of expanding insurance to the 26 million who remain uninsured despite the ACA, as well as “plugging the gaps in existing coverage – abolishing copayments and deductibles, covering such services as dental and long-term care that many policies exclude.”
February 21, 2017
Single-payer reform is ‘the only way to fulfill the president’s pledge’ on health care: Annals of Internal Medicine commentary
Researchers estimate administrative savings at $504 billion annually
Proposals floated by Republican leaders won’t achieve President Trump’s campaign promises of more coverage, better benefits, and lower costs, but a single-payer reform would, according to a commentary published today [Tuesday, Feb. 21] in Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the nation’s most prestigious and widely cited medical journals.
Republicans promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the first day of the Trump presidency. But the health reform effort has stalled because Republicans in Congress have been unable to come up with a better replacement and fear a backlash against plans that would deprive millions of coverage and raise deductibles.
...
Woolhandler and Himmelstein review evidence that, in contrast, single-payer reform could provide comprehensive first-dollar coverage to all Americans within the current budgetary envelope because of vast savings on health care bureaucracy and profits. The authors estimate that a streamlined, publicly financed single-payer program would save $504 billion annually on health care paperwork and profits, including $220 billion on insurance overhead, $150 billion in hospital billing and administration and $75 billion doctors’ billing and paperwork. They estimate that an additional $113 billion could be saved each year by hard bargaining with drug companies over prices. A table in the paper summarizes these savings.
The savings would cover the cost of expanding insurance to the 26 million who remain uninsured despite the ACA, as well as “plugging the gaps in existing coverage – abolishing copayments and deductibles, covering such services as dental and long-term care that many policies exclude.”
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