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Jan 24 Global Health Economics Colloquium. Medicare-for-All: How to Do It Right Register at

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2013.

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    15. sij
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    30. sij

    Q&A with Dr Kahn, Dr Sepulveda and MS student Alyssa Bercasio.

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    24. sij

    UCSF's Jim Kahn notes life expectancy in most countries is rising, but US has become an "outlier" in that it's gone down for 3 straight years. "So what do we do? Hey, I have an idea and it's called single payer."

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    Thanks to & Dr. Kahn, for this important analysis. There is near consensus among economists that would save us money & guarantee high-quality insurance for all.

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    30. sij

    Can’t make it to Mission Bay for our 12:45 program with Jim Kahn? Live feed at

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  6. 27. sij
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  7. 25. sij

    And that concludes this year’s colloquium, . We’re so glad you were able to join us to discuss . See you next year!

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    25. sij

    Great conference today at UC Berkeley on Medicare for All! With smart funding, Medicare for All would lead to the biggest take-home pay increase in a generation for working families My slides:

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  9. 25. sij

    The movement can learn from the conservative party, says 's Laura Schmidt. We can do a better job of pushing out our ideas and reframing them in a way that focuses on values and inspires urgent action.

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  10. 25. sij

    Where do we go from here? Concerted action is necessary to advance . We can start by calling our congressmen, says Diane Archer from .

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    24. sij

    An overarching theme at the conference on is how much more the U.S. spends on its healthcare per capita. public health professor David Himmelstein notes that U.S. public spending per capita for health exceeds total spending in other nations.

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  12. 24. sij

    "We need to fund hospitals the way we fund fire departments and public schools. We need to give them their budget and let them manage it." Dr. Himmelstein argues for simplifying the way we pay for care and not distributing resources according to profitability.

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  13. 24. sij

    Did you know that 2/3 of funding for health care in the U.S. comes from public dollars? "We pay for national health insurance but we don't get it," says David Himmelstein of

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    24. sij

    "The U.S. healthcare system does something that completely defies logic," professor of CUNY tells conference on . "We are rationing healthcare today even though we have a surplus of thousands of hospital beds."

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    24. sij

    Econ Prof Robert Pollin of tells that he estimates the first year of would see a 10% savings, or $2.93 trillion, compared to what CMS spends under existing system. He also believes it would stabilize US healthcare spending at 15% of GDP.

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    24. sij

    Sarah Thompson from the WHO now up, documenting downsides of additional layers of private health insurance in nations with universal public coverage. It: 1) Exacerbates inequality in access, and 2) Undermines public coverage.

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    24. sij

    . shows how our privatized health insurance poll tax means that the overall tax structure is massively regressive — replacing this poll tax with progressive taxes would be incredibly more fair, and reduce economic inequality.

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  18. 24. sij

    "We need a system of public accountability for investment in new health care infrastructure. When these projects are funded at a profit, we have new resources in places that don't need them." -

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  19. 24. sij

    The approach doesn't work in our system. Hospitals have as many billers as they have beds, which translates into huge spending. Hospitals spend a quarter of their revenue on administrative costs.

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    24. sij

    The major savings obtained through a single-payer system is through decreased administrative cost. Here is comparing overhead between private insurance & Medicare at Healthcare dollars should be spent on healthcare.

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    24. sij

    Joseph Kutzin, head of 's Health Financing Team, tells colloquium on : "Everyone should be able to have access to good quality health services without fear of financial consequences for themselves, their families, their businesses and their jobs."

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