Not exact matches
Here's some of
what's going on in the
health care world as we head into Easter weekend:
payers are pushing back against PTC Therapeutcics» controversial Duchenne muscular dystropy drug; insurers are cautiously lauding new rules for Obamacare's marketplaces; a fascinating lawsuit in Arkansas explores the ethics of drug making; and a new test for Zika virus can produce results within an hour.
That reality would seem to suggest that the U.S. should adopt a system similar to those in other countries, which more tightly regulate drug prices and where the government largely subsidizes
health care costs (as opposed to employers largely doing so in the U.S.) through
what's known as a single -
payer system.
want a single -
payer universal
health care system for NY so
what does he
care?
Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter sent out a tweet on Wednesday asking
what the point of the Revolutionary War with Britain was since the United States now has a president «guilty of treason» and doesn't have a single -
payer health care system.
In
what has become an annual exercise, legislation to create a single -
payer health care system in New York state drew ardent support from labor leaders, policy wonks and regular folk who told often grueling stories of their experiences navigating the current for - profit system.
What has ravaged the human
health industry is managed
care; but the original idea of a third - party
payer (the insurer) is closer in spirit to car insurance than to current human
health insurance.