U.S. healthcare

Survey: New payment system needed for doctors

By Consumer Insurance Guide Staff
Survey: New payment system needed for doctors

The current system used in the U.S. to determine payment for health care providers – a complex negotiation between public and private health insurers and the doctors and nurses themselves – is archaic and should be changed, according to a majority of opinion leaders surveyed recently by the Commonwealth Fund. “Experts agree that if private payers and public programs could come together and agree to pay the same way, and the same amount, we can…

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Senator says not enough votes for health care repeal

By Consumer Insurance Guide Staff
Senator says not enough votes for health care repeal

The Republican effort to pass a legislative repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms of last year will not be successful, warns Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. Despite her personal opposition to the President’s reforms, Murkowski told a local news station in Anchorage, she thinks the party’s time would be better spent on issues it has more chance of actually getting traction on. According to the New York Times, Murkowski also said an alternative measure…

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