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As Out-Of-Pocket Health Costs Rise, Insured Adults Are Seeking Less Primary Care

Posted on Health Care Forum by Susan Gilbert · February 04, 2020 10:46 AM

Due to rising healthcare costs, fewer adults are seeking medical attention for their routine care such as an injury, flu symptoms, etc.  A recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine provides several reasons and in-depth data as to why people are choosing not to visit their primary physicians.

As Out-Of-Pocket Health Costs Rise, Insured Adults Are Seeking Less Primary Care  by Elena Renken, NPR

Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008–2016 Annals of Internal Medicine, Abstract

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Let's Be Very Clear: Medicare for All Is Not Socialism

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · November 19, 2019 10:46 AM

The differences between socialism and socialized medicine, as well as the discrepancies between social insurance versus private insurance, are points that are often confused or falsely explained.

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Medicare DISadvantage: The Private Company Taking Your Medicare Dollars

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · September 03, 2019 1:03 PM

Thom Hartmann discusses how private, for profit insurance companies claim they are providing you with Medicare coverage, but in reality are simply taking your money for their own financial gain.  

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To Save Money, American Patients And Surgeons Meet In Cancun

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · August 14, 2019 9:35 AM

In order to save money, American patients and their surgeons are going out of the country to get treatment. Medical Tourism is on the rise. thanks to NASH, North American Specialty Hospital. 

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How Healthy is Our Health Care System?

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · May 28, 2019 8:46 AM

HCACF co-president, Vince Markovchick recently facilitated 4 discussions about our healthcare system. These OLLI classes were offered at the University of Denver and focused on the history of healthcare, comparing our system to healthcare in other countries, and reasons for the high cost of care here in the United States. 

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Why Does the American Medical Association Have Such a Feeble Response to Our Health Care Crisis?

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · April 22, 2019 8:48 AM

Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram takes the position that healthcare is a basic right and that Medicare-for-All is a way to ensure that all Americans will be covered, even though the AMA is siding with the insurance industry.  Profit before patients is not what most doctors or patients support. Common Dreams, April 12, 2019 

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How Healthy is our Healthcare and Why Does it Cost So Much?

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · February 20, 2019 8:56 AM

HCACF Board member Vince Markovchick, MD presents how American taxpayers are paying more for their healthcare than people living in countries with national health insurance.  He asks and answers the following questions: What is the root cause of our healthcare dilemma? Why are our costs so high? What are the attributes of the “Ideal” health insurance plan? He also explains healthcare waste, cost and abuse in our U.S. insurance system, and why public opinion in the United States strongly favors single-payer national health insurance.

 

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Universal Healthcare Was Unthinkable in America, but Not Any More

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · September 18, 2018 12:35 PM

Adam Gaffney from PNHP examines the history of universal healthcare and his hope that the Democrats do not repeat mistakes from the past. He recognizes the need for a single-payer healthcare system and identifies the answer to be a “fully public national health insurance providing comprehensive, universal coverage to the entire nation.”

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Health Insurers Writing Big Checks to Democrats as Single Payer Support Grows

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · June 28, 2018 12:11 PM

Political action committees of the 5 biggest for-profit health insurers - Aetna, Anthem, Humana, Cigna and United Health – are making large campaign donations to almost as many congressional Democrats as Republicans, in order to counter growing popular support for single payer insurance. As much as they oppose single payer, commercial insurers promote Medicare Advantage plans, which have become increasingly profitable to private insurers. The Coalition for Medicare Choices, created by AHIP, claims to be for the people, but is lobbying Congress to protect insurers’ Medicare Advantage profits.

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Insurers’ donations to House Democrats by company as % of total contributions to date
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