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The Aca, Provider Mergers And Hospital Pricing: Experimenting With Smart, Lower-Cost Health Insurance Options, Susan A. Channick
The Aca, Provider Mergers And Hospital Pricing: Experimenting With Smart, Lower-Cost Health Insurance Options, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
This paper addresses the issue of whether the recent significant uptick in provider mergers and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act have a particularly adverse effect on provider pricing in the commercial insurance market. Uncompetitive provider markets exacerbate already existing high cost issues such as lack of transparency in provider pricing, patient behavior that conflates reputation and quality, and payers’ inability, or at least reluctance, to exclude high-price providers from their networks. The ACA’s incentives for providers to coordinate patient care and hospitals’ revenue losses from reductions in Medicare reimbursement create further rationales for consolidation. The burden of finding …
The Vulnerabilities Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act And The Tragedy Of Repeal, Susan A. Channick
The Vulnerabilities Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act And The Tragedy Of Repeal, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
No abstract provided.
Will Americans Embrace Single-Payer Health Insurance: The Intractable Barriers Of Inertia, Free Market And Culture, Susan A. Channick
Will Americans Embrace Single-Payer Health Insurance: The Intractable Barriers Of Inertia, Free Market And Culture, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
In a country that prides itself on equality of opportunity, why is there so little equality when it comes to healthcare? Why does the value of equality of opportunity not translate into social solidarity? This Article seeks answers to these questions. Risking the label of socialist, I posit that the most cost-effective, efficacious, and efficient solution to the health care mess that the United States is in is universal single-payer reform with the federal government as that payer. Part I examines the United States' current climate as it affects health care reform. In Part II, this Article scrutinizes recent state …
The Myth Of Autonomy At The End-Of-Life: Questioning The Paradigm Of Rights, Susan Channick
The Myth Of Autonomy At The End-Of-Life: Questioning The Paradigm Of Rights, Susan Channick
Susan A. Channick
No abstract provided.
Health Care Cost Containment: No Longer An Option But A Mandate, Susan Adler Channick
Health Care Cost Containment: No Longer An Option But A Mandate, Susan Adler Channick
Susan A. Channick
No abstract provided.
Taming The Beast Of Health Care Costs: Why Medicare Reform Alone Is Not Enough, Susan A. Channick
Taming The Beast Of Health Care Costs: Why Medicare Reform Alone Is Not Enough, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
No abstract provided.
Can State Health Reform Initiatives Achieve Universal Coverage: Lessons From California’S Recent Failed Experiment, Susan A. Channick
Can State Health Reform Initiatives Achieve Universal Coverage: Lessons From California’S Recent Failed Experiment, Susan A. Channick
Susan A. Channick
This article is about the struggle toward health care reform. It looks at the mandated health care insurance model as well as the experiences of Massachusetts and California.