Caroline Poplin, MD, JD
Caroline Poplin is an internal medicine physician and attorney. She blogs at MedPage Today's Poplin on Policy.
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The Democratic debates this summer demonstrated massive confusion around Medicare for all. Does it mean Medicare for all who want it? Medicare Advantage? A "public option" on an Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange? Democrats need to get their story straight.…
The Democratic debates this summer demonstrated massive confusion around Medicare for all. Does it mean Medicare for all who want it? Medicare Advantage? A “public option” on an Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange?
Democrats need to get their story straight.
The confusion is understandable. Medicare for all has been an aspiration since at least the New Deal, but since 1965, when Congress …
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Clearing up the confusion surrounding Medicare for all
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MACRA -- the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 -- is a disaster. It will take the joy out of practicing medicine without significantly improving patient outcomes (except in a circular way) or reducing cost, by moving medical…
MACRA — the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 — is a disaster.
It will take the joy out of practicing medicine without significantly improving patient outcomes (except in a circular way) or reducing cost, by moving medical decisions from the bedside to the C-suite. It benefits primarily the health policy community — consultants, academics, executives — who designed it. Ironically, MACRA was one of the few major pieces …
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MACRA is a disaster. Here’s what we should do instead.
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The Democratic debates this summer demonstrated massive confusion around Medicare for all. Does it mean Medicare for all who want it? Medicare Advantage? A “public option” on an Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange?
