by Sylvia Moore | Dec 21, 2012 | News
There was much fanfare in the mainstream media over news that Americans saved $1.5 billion thanks to the Affordable Care Act, according to a study by the New York-based Commonwealth Fund. Those savings came about as a result of a new ACA regulation requiring health...
by Sylvia Moore | Aug 1, 2012 | News
In yet more evidence of the advantages of single payer, the Commonwealth Fund found in a survey of more than 4,000 adults that people on Medicare are happier than those with private health insurance. Nationally representative health insurance surveys conducted in 2001...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 23, 2011 | News
The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve Industrialized Nations By David A. Squires The Commonwealth Fund, July 2011 This analysis concentrated on 2010 OECD health data for Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand,...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 5, 2011 | News
by nyceve The other day, my brother asked me to explain why a simple yearly doctor visit costs $1500? I started to explain, and he didn’t believe me. I told him, doctors have to employ armies of people to deal with hundreds of insurance companies, this adds...
by Andrew McGuire | May 9, 2011 | News
Realizing Health Reform’s Potential: Will the Affordable Care Act Make Health Insurance Affordable? By Jonathan Gruber and Ian Perry The Commonwealth Fund April 2011 Abstract: Using a budget-based approach to measuring affordability, this issue brief explores whether...
