…multiple insurers (insurance companies and self-insured-employer plans), and the one payer negotiates annual budgets with hospitals, uniform fee schedules with doctors, and price ceilings with drug companies. Insurance companies could…

…contrast to private insurance. Indeed, the American Academy of Actuaries issued a report just last September about private insurance and concluded that “insurance fraud is widespread.” Ironically, the best way…

…have been enacted, fine. But most people would disagree with you. Sanders wants to replace private-industry healthcare insurance with federal, nonprofit, single-payer insurance. Like Denmark! And like Medicare. I would…

…payment that shift insurance risk from insurance companies and public programs like Medicare onto health care providers. Risk is shifted by paying providers a set fee per patient per year…

…aimed in particular at the earned benefit and safety net programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. B. A Grand Bargain or a Devil’s Bargain–How the Heck Did Social Security…

…is dominated by Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, with relatively small additional amounts for other safety-net programs like food stamps and health insurance subsidies. Are these programs efficient? In the…

…opponents of mechanization or advocates of short-time working, a reasoning they label as a misconception and which we know today under the label ‘lump of labor’ fallacy ‘. But the…

…our protest against the Republican plan to gut Social Security. Seniors, Activists Gather for Cat Food Feast; As Republican “Young Guns” Take Aim at Social Security, Medicare Reps. Paul Ryan,…

…initial public offerings, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), and insurance company purchases of MA-focused firms has soared. As the article notes more than $50 billion in valuation has been created…

…the fact that so many people on their team have retrograde social views.  But the point is that if you abhor reactionary social movements, being a libertarian in a realist…