Single Payer Health Insurance
Some years ago, I wrote a letter to the editor regarding the meaning of single payer health insurance. I recently read of a politician who erroneously conflated “Medicare for all” (one way to implement single payer health insurance) with socialized medicine. I feel the need to once again explain what single payer health insurance is. …
Evaluation Mania
I knew a doctor who worked for a large healthcare organization in the Chicagoland area. As part of the group practice, he was subject to evaluation, which was partly based on patient satisfaction surveys. One of the questions patients were asked about their physicians was whether he or she saw them in a timely fashion. …
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