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Vermont's aggressive health care reform initiatives can serve as a roadmap for other states, according to a Master of Public Health candidate at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The paper, "Lessons from Vermont's Health Care Reform," will appear tomorrow in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study's author, Laura Grubb, M.D., of The University of Texas School of Public Health, part of UTHealth, wrote that Vermont is well ahead of most other states...

Researchers find the US could have saved more than $2.15 trillion on Medicare since 1980 had it employed cost-saving measures similar to Canada's A study published in today's [Monday, Oct. 29] Archives of Internal Medicine finds that per capita Medicare spending on the elderly has grown nearly three times faster in the United States than in Canada since 1980. (Canada's program, which covers all Canadians, not just the elderly, is also called Medicare.) Cost grew more slowly in Canada...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, “Got us one step closer to ‘Medicare for All,’” according to the plurality of 249 California-based healthcare executives surveyed by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, following the high court’s decision. Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, “Got us one step closer to ‘Medicare for All,’” according to the plurality of 249...

Law Professor Renée M. Landers, director of Suffolk University Law School’s Health & Biomedical Law Concentration, is available to analyze the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding the universal health care law. Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 28, 2012 Law Professor Renée M. Landers, director of Suffolk University Law School’s Health & Biomedical Law Concentration, is available to analyze the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding the universal health care...

Law Professor Renée M. Landers, director of Suffolk University Law School’s Health & Biomedical Law Concentration, is available to analyze the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on universal health care. Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 26, 2012 Law Professor Renée M. Landers, director of Suffolk University Law School’s Health & Biomedical Law Concentration, is available to analyze the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on universal health care. The court will rule on...

TUCSON, Ariz., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Obama Administration spends millions of dollars to promote the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) recalls that this is not the first time that an expensive sales job is needed for a government medical scheme. In 1966, Curtis Caine, M.D., wrote a letter to all of his physician colleagues in the state of Mississippi, warning of the consequences of Medicare. "Dr. Caine's...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Wayne Iverson, San Diego physician and candidate for the US House of Representatives in the California 52nd Congressional District, today commented on the surprise announcement from Washington, D.C. "The abrupt resignation of Don Berwick as the head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) signals a dramatic shift in this nation's healthcare policy." The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law...

Many still find insurance unaffordable and employer-sponsored insurance unavailable, Harvard Medical School researchers say Despite the implementation of the Massachusetts health care reform designed to bolster employer-based insurance and to provide no-cost or low-cost insurance to those unable to afford it, the uninsured in Massachusetts remain predominantly the working poor, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School just published online in the Journal of General...

Gap ascribed to administrative costs of interacting with multiple payersPhysicians in the United States spend nearly four times as much dealing with health insurers and payers compared with doctors in Canada. Most of the difference stems from the fact that Canadian physicians deal with a single payer, in contrast to the multiple payers in the United States.These findings are published in the August issue of the journal Health Affairs -- the result of a research collaboration among Weill...

U.S. physicians spend nearly $61,000 more than their Canadian counterparts each year on administrative expenses related to health insurance, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Toronto.The study, published in the August issue of the journal Health Affairs, found that per-physician costs in the U.S. averaged $82,975 annually, while Ontario-based physicians averaged $22,205 "“ primarily because Canada's single-payer health care system is...