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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be
distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed
according to medical need."
— JAMA (2003), 290, 798
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Hits and Misses
August 29, 2024 --
Reviewing this blog as it approaches its twentieth year (wow! how the time has flown!) it's time to revisit some postings that are truly groundbreaking -- hits! -- proposals that, if implemented, would do much to improve healthcare in America.
Here are some of our hits.
New Model -- Here is a whole new financial model for nursing that benefits patients, hospitals and nurses. Unbundle nursing from hospital room rates. Make us billable.
End employer-provided -- Let people buy their own health insurance
(and make it tax-deductible) instead of getting it from their jobs.
Add the employers' savings to paychecks.
Getting Clear about Single Payer -- Why we need single-payer: end the insane
bureaucracies whose job is to stick some other payer (often the patient) with the bill.