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How We Compare to Canada’s Healthcare System
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WorldFocus interviewed Uwe Reinhardt PhD on January 28, 2009.
In this extended interview, Dr. Reinhardt, a leading adviser on health care economics and professor of political economy at Princeton University, compares the Canadian and American health care systems.
Reinhardt criticizes the US health care culture and expresses his optimism about the new Obama administration.
Conclusion
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AMA Offers Code of Conduct for Insurers
Noting that “the health insurance industry has a crisis of credibility,” the American Medical Association has released a set of 10 Health Insurer Code of Conduct Principles that it said will “bring transparency and accountability to the multibillion-dollar health insurance industry.” The code was developed by the AMA and has been endorsed by 68 state and specialty medical societies. The AMA said it has sent letters to the nation’s eight largest insurers seeking their compliance.
The principles include subjecting a decision to cancel a person’s coverage to independent, outside review; spending the “substantial bulk” of a premium dollar on direct medical care; and requiring that only a physician can make a decision to deny care on the grounds it is not “medically necessary.”
Other principles call for reducing administrative complexity and confusion, and focusing “physician profiling” initiatives on improving quality, not reducing costs.
I wonder what Dr. Reinhardt thinks about this AMA exercise … futile?
Source: Andis Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare [5/24/10]
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