Health Insurance Hustle

Why your health insurer doesn’t care about your big bills.  Patients may think their insurers are fighting on their behalf for the best prices.  But saving patients money is often not their top priority.  ProPublica & NPR article

Understanding the Debate about Reducing Health Care Costs

Kip Sullivan, J.D. is a health policy expert and frequent blogger.  He has been a Minnesota-based organizer and researcher on healthcare issues for more than two decades. Kip is the author of the book “The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and How We’ll Get Out of It.”  His articles have appeared in […]

Why Do We Need ACOs and Insurance Companies?

Why Do We Need ACOs and Insurance Companies? Why does America need “accountable care organizations” as well as insurance companies?  What is it that ACOs are supposed to do that insurance companies haven’t already tried? Whatever it is ACOs are supposed to be doing to lower costs, they aren’t succeeding. Kip Sullivan, J.D. is a […]

Down With the Copay

Natalie Shure 10/6/2017 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/sanders-single-payer-copays-medicare-for-all We can’t eliminate the profit motive in health care without eliminating copays. In the week preceding the release of Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill, the Vermont senator’s office was flooded with calls — so many, in fact, that the legislative aides on the other line often guessed callers’ purpose before […]

Why Medicaid?

Here is an excellent primer on Medicaid as the federal government attempts to change it.  Thanks to Diane Archer and JustCare. Medicaid: Why It Matters to All of Us February 19, 2015   by Diane Archer Medicaid, with “aid” at the end, is a federal-state insurance program established to help individuals and families living in poverty.  […]