From the Dallas Morning News:
As the state seeks ways to trim Medicaid, an increasing number of doctors frustrated with reimbursements are opting not to see new Medicaid patients. As a result, Medicaid patients often grow sicker while hunting for a doctor.
"The inability to find a Medicaid doctor drives up the ...
From the New York Times:
The difficulties in receiving care were severest among low-income residents, who have gained the most from expanded access under the state's law, passed in 2006. It requires most residents to have health insurance and provides state-subsidized plans for the poor. ...
But the study, which was scheduled ...
Yet an other example of how having medical "coverage" does not mean getting needed care, here's one more warning to those who want mandatory insurance. From John R. Graham at StateHouseCall:
A recent white paper by the New England Healthcare Institute suggests that access to primary care in Massachusetts is actually ...
From the Boston Globe:
Despite Boston's abundance of top-notch medical specialists, the waits to see dermatologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, and orthopedic surgeons for routine care have grown longer - to as much as a year for the busiest doctors.
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Patients in Boston and other areas of Massachusetts for years have faced notoriously long delays, ...
Medical internist and Professor of Medicine Mark Siegel in the Wall Street Journal:
Here's something that has gotten lost in the drive to institute universal health insurance: Health insurance doesn't automatically lead to health care. And with more and more doctors dropping out of one insurance plan or another, especially government ...
On April 14 the Denver Post published an excellent letter by Tish Jeffers of Centennial. Excellent work, Tish!
Re: “Look to Canada for single-payer success,” April 11 letter to the editor.
So, Timothy Snowden, who visits Canada often, has polled the entire population about their single-payer health system? He hit the nail ...
A headline like this makes one wonder what "Medicare for All" would look like, or what effect President Obama's proposed "public plan" would have on physicians. It illustrates again that having medical "coverage" is not the same as getting the medical are you want. Some excerpts from the New York ...
From the New York Times:
Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. ...
...government and industry officials agree that the plan will not be sustainable over the next 5 to 10 years if they ...
From the II's Linda Gorman:
According to the Australian Medical Association, every public hospital in New South Wales is dangerously overcrowded, causing 1,500 unnecessary deaths each year. Patients stack up in corridors and emergency rooms waiting for beds. Hospitals routinely cancel elective surgeries. On September 8, 2008, 23 patients with government ...
From a former senior official at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published last week in the Wall Street Journal:
Accumulating medical data shows that Medicaid recipients' poor health outcomes aren't just a function of their underlying medical problems, but a more direct consequence of the program's shortcomings. Take the ...
