Himmelstein, David U.; Kuttner, Robert; Woolhandler, Steffie Who Should Own Americans' Health Care? Journal Article In: JAMA, 2025, ISSN: 1538-3598 0098-7484. Gaffney, Adam; Woolhandler, Stephanie; Himmelstein, David U. Less Care at Higher Cost-The Medicare Advantage Paradox. Journal Article In: JAMA internal medicine, vol. 184, no. 8, pp. 865–866, 2024, ISSN: 2168-6114 2168-6106. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Medicare Advantage: High Costs and Poor Protection. Journal Article In: Annals of internal medicine, vol. 177, no. 7, pp. 974–975, 2024, ISSN: 1539-3704 0003-4819. Uppal, Nishant; Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Alleviating Medical Debt in the United States. Journal Article In: The New England journal of medicine, vol. 389, no. 10, pp. 871–873, 2023, ISSN: 1533-4406 0028-4793. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Corporate Efforts to Adopt and Distort the Social Determinants of Health Framework. Journal Article In: International journal of social determinants of health and health services, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 249–252, 2023, ISSN: 2755-1946 2755-1938. Robertson, Christopher; Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Arizona's debt collection reform-a small step towards health justice. Journal Article In: BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 379, pp. o2822, 2022, ISSN: 1756-1833 0959-8138. Gaffney, Adam W. A Medical and Moral Imperative: Testimony for the UṠ. Senate Budget Committee "Medicare for All" Hearing. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 492–500, 2022, ISSN: 1541-4469 0020-7314. Gaffney, Adam W. Lung Transplantation Disparities among Patients with IPF: Recognition and Remedy. Journal Article In: Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 899–901, 2022, ISSN: 2325-6621 2329-6933. Gaffney, Adam; Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Smoking Prevalence during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Journal Article In: Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1065–1068, 2022, ISSN: 2325-6621 2329-6933. Gaffney, Adam; Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie A Potential Path to Universal Coverage With Medicare Advantage for All. Journal Article In: JAMA, vol. 327, no. 16, pp. 1615, 2022, ISSN: 1538-3598 0098-7484. Gaffney, Adam W. Full Coverage of COVID-19-related Care Was Necessary, but Do Other Pulmonary Patients Deserve Any Less? Journal Article In: Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1–2, 2022, ISSN: 2325-6621 2329-6933. Gaffney, Adam W. The Long COVID Conundrum. Journal Article In: The American journal of medicine, vol. 135, no. 1, pp. 5–6, 2022, ISSN: 1555-7162 0002-9343. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Recovering from Trump: Biden's first 100 days. Journal Article In: Lancet (London, England), vol. 397, no. 10287, pp. 1787–1791, 2021, ISSN: 1474-547X 0140-6736. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Health Care Crisis Unabated: A Review of Recent Data on Health Care in the United States. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 182–187, 2021, ISSN: 1541-4469 0020-7314. Gaffney, Adam; Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie COVID-19 and US Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 396–407, 2020, ISSN: 1541-4469 0020-7314. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Intersecting UṠ. Epidemics: COVID-19 and Lack of Health Insurance. Journal Article In: Annals of internal medicine, vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 63–64, 2020, ISSN: 1539-3704 0003-4819. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Single-Payer Reform: Heed the Evidence, Not the Soothsayers. Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 447–448, 2020, ISSN: 1541-0048 0090-0036. Gaffney, Adam Illness should not inflict financial ruin. Journal Article In: BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 368, pp. m327, 2020, ISSN: 1756-1833 0959-8138. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie; Fauke, Clare Health Care Crisis by the Numbers. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 697–711, 2019, ISSN: 1541-4469 0020-7314. Wolfe, Sidney M.; Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. It Is Time to Liberate Hospitals from Profit-Centered Care. Journal Article In: Journal of general internal medicine, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 980–982, 2018, ISSN: 1525-1497 0884-8734. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Determined Action Needed on Social Determinants. Journal Article In: Annals of internal medicine, vol. 168, no. 8, pp. 596–597, 2018, ISSN: 1539-3704 0003-4819. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Trumpcare or Transformation. Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 107, no. 5, pp. 660–661, 2017, ISSN: 1541-0048 0090-0036. Gaffney, Adam; Berger, Zackary D.; Jha, Saurabh Should US doctors mourn for Obamacare? Miscellaneous 2017. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. The Obama Years: Tepid Palliation for America's Health Scourges. Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 22–24, 2017, ISSN: 1541-0048 0090-0036. Himmelstein, David U.; Phillips, Russell S. Should We Abandon Routine Visits? Journal Article In: Annals of internal medicine, vol. 165, no. 7, pp. 529–530, 2016, ISSN: 1539-3704 0003-4819. Himmelstein, David U.; Phillips, Russell S. Should We Abandon Routine Visits? There Is Little Evidence for or Against. Journal Article In: Annals of internal medicine, vol. 164, no. 7, pp. 498–499, 2016, ISSN: 1539-3704 0003-4819. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Did extra resources or the medical home model improve care? Journal Article In: JAMA internal medicine, vol. 174, no. 6, pp. 1008, 2014, ISSN: 2168-6114 2168-6106. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Global amnesia: embracing fee-for-non-service–again. Journal Article In: Journal of general internal medicine, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 693–695, 2014, ISSN: 1525-1497 0884-8734. Himmelstein, David U.; Ariely, Dan; Woolhandler, Steffie Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 203–214, 2014, ISSN: 0020-7314. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Life or debt: underinsurance in America. Journal Article In: Journal of general internal medicine, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 1122–1124, 2013, ISSN: 1525-1497 0884-8734. Woolhandler, Steffie; Ariely, Dan; Himmelstein, David U. Why pay for performance may be incompatible with quality improvement. Journal Article In: BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 345, pp. e5015, 2012, ISSN: 1756-1833 0959-8138. Dickman, Samuel L.; Rich, Josiah D. The health of prisoners. Journal Article In: Lancet (London, England), vol. 377, no. 9782, pp. 2001–2002, 2011, ISSN: 1474-547X 0140-6736. Rich, Josiah D.; Wakeman, Sarah E.; Dickman, Samuel L. Medicine and the epidemic of incarceration in the United States. Journal Article In: The New England journal of medicine, vol. 364, no. 22, pp. 2081–2083, 2011, ISSN: 1533-4406 0028-4793. Himmelstein, David U.; Thorne, Deborah; Woolhandler, Steffie Medical bankruptcy in Massachusetts: has health reform made a difference? Journal Article In: The American journal of medicine, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 224–228, 2011, ISSN: 1555-7162 0002-9343. Woolhandler, Steffie J. Despite the reform law, don't write off single payer. Journal Article In: Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.), vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 24–26, 30, 2010, ISSN: 1062-3388. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Obama's reform: no cure for what ails us. Journal Article In: BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 340, pp. c1778, 2010, ISSN: 1756-1833 0959-8138. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Grim prognosis for massachusetts reform. Journal Article In: Health affairs (Project Hope), vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 604–605; author reply 605, 2009, ISSN: 2694-233X 0278-2715. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie US health care: single-payer or market reform. Journal Article In: The Urologic clinics of North America, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 57–62, vi, 2009, ISSN: 0094-0143. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet? Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 98, no. 9 Suppl, pp. S65–68, 2008, ISSN: 1541-0048 0090-0036. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David Care is complicated...but paying for it is simple: one government program. Journal Article In: Modern healthcare, vol. 37, no. 47, pp. 32, 2007, ISSN: 0160-7480. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Consumer directed healthcare: except for the healthy and wealthy it's unwise. Journal Article In: Journal of general internal medicine, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 879–881, 2007, ISSN: 1525-1497 0884-8734. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Massachusetts' approach to universal coverage: high hopes and faulty economic logic. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 251–257, 2007, ISSN: 0020-7314. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. The new Massachusetts health reform: half a step forward and three steps back. Journal Article In: The Hastings Center report, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 19–21, 2006, ISSN: 0093-0334. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Hope and hype: predicting the impact of electronic medical records. Journal Article In: Health affairs (Project Hope), vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1121–1123, 2005, ISSN: 0278-2715. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Utilization management: a bad review. Journal Article In: The American journal of medicine, vol. 117, no. 9, pp. 703–705, 2004, ISSN: 0002-9343. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. The high costs of for-profit care. Journal Article In: CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, vol. 170, no. 12, pp. 1814–1815, 2004, ISSN: 0820-3946 1488-2329. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. National health insurance: falling expectations and the safety net. Journal Article In: Medical care, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 403–405, 2004, ISSN: 0025-7079. McCormick, Danny; Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie; Bor, David H. Single-payer national health insurance. Physicians' views. Journal Article In: Archives of internal medicine, vol. 164, no. 3, pp. 300–304, 2004, ISSN: 0003-9926. Azaroff, Lenore S.; Lax, Michael B.; Levenstein, Charles; Wegman, David H. Wounding the messenger: the new economy makes occupational health indicators too good to be true. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 271–303, 2004, ISSN: 0020-7314. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U.; Angell, Marcia; Young, Quentin D. Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance. Journal Article In: JAMA, vol. 290, no. 6, pp. 798–805, 2003, ISSN: 1538-3598 0098-7484. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet? Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 102–105, 2003, ISSN: 0090-0036 1541-0048. Lehman, Gregg; Himmelstein, David; Stockstill, George Does employer-sponsored health care have a future? Journal Article In: Hospitals & health networks, vol. 76, no. 11, pp. 22, 2002, ISSN: 1068-8838. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. National health insurance. Journal Article In: Health affairs (Project Hope), vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 299, 2002, ISSN: 0278-2715. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. Paying for national health insurance–and not getting it. Journal Article In: Health affairs (Project Hope), vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 88–98, 2002, ISSN: 0278-2715. Himmelstein, David U.; Woolhandler, Steffie Getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS. Price adjustments falsify comparison. Journal Article In: BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 324, no. 7349, pp. 1332; author reply 1332, 2002, ISSN: 1756-1833 0959-8138. Woolhandler, Steffie; Himmelstein, David U. National health insurance: liberal benefits, conservative spending. Journal Article In: Archives of internal medicine, vol. 162, no. 9, pp. 973–975, 2002, ISSN: 0003-9926. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. When money is the mission–the high costs of investor-owned care. Journal Article In: The New England journal of medicine, vol. 341, no. 6, pp. 444–446, 1999, ISSN: 0028-4793. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. NHS at 50. An American view. National Health Service. Journal Article In: Lancet (London, England), vol. 352, no. 9121, pp. 54–55, 1998, ISSN: 0140-6736. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. The silence of the doctors: fifty years after Nuremberg. Journal Article In: Journal of general internal medicine, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 422–423, 1998, ISSN: 0884-8734 1525-1497. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. Bound to gag. Journal Article In: Archives of internal medicine, vol. 157, no. 18, pp. 2033, 1997, ISSN: 0003-9926. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. Market medicine. Journal Article In: Epidemiologia e prevenzione, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 89–90, 1997, ISSN: 1120-9763. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. Annotation: patients on the auction block. Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 1699–1700, 1996, ISSN: 0090-0036 1541-0048. Tyrance, P. H. Jr; Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. US emergency department costs: no emergency. Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 86, no. 11, pp. 1527–1531, 1996, ISSN: 0090-0036 1541-0048. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. Extreme risk–the new corporate proposition for physicians. Journal Article In: The New England journal of medicine, vol. 333, no. 25, pp. 1706–1708, 1995, ISSN: 0028-4793. Boyd, J. W.; Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. The tobacco/health-insurance connection. Journal Article In: Lancet (London, England), vol. 346, no. 8967, pp. 64, 1995, ISSN: 0140-6736. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. The physician workforce delusion. Journal Article In: Health affairs (Project Hope), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 279, 1995, ISSN: 0278-2715. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. Clinton's health plan: Prudential's choice. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 583–592, 1994, ISSN: 0020-7314. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U.; Young, Q. High noon for UṠ. health care reform. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 193–211, 1993, ISSN: 0020-7314. Grumbach, K.; Bodenheimer, T.; Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. Liberal benefits, conservative spending. The Physicians for a National Health Program proposal. Journal Article In: JAMA, vol. 265, no. 19, pp. 2549–2554, 1991, ISSN: 0098-7484. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. A national health program: northern light at the end of the tunnel. Journal Article In: JAMA, vol. 262, no. 15, pp. 2136–2137, 1989, ISSN: 0098-7484. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. Resolving the cost/access conflict: the case for a national health program. Journal Article In: Journal of general internal medicine, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 54–60, 1989, ISSN: 0884-8734. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. A national health program for the United States. A physicians' proposal. Journal Article In: The New England journal of medicine, vol. 320, no. 2, pp. 102–108, 1989, ISSN: 0028-4793. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. Aiming so low we hit our own feet. The limits of incrementalism. Journal Article In: Health PAC bulletin, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 20–21, 1988, ISSN: 0017-9051. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U.; Labar, B.; Lang, S. Transplanted technology: Third World options and First World science. Journal Article In: The New England journal of medicine, vol. 317, no. 8, pp. 504–506, 1987, ISSN: 0028-4793. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. A national health program for the United States. Journal Article In: Annals of internal medicine, vol. 106, no. 5, pp. 783, 1987, ISSN: 0003-4819. Woolhandler, S.; Himmelstein, D. U. Physicians for a National Health Program. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 703–706, 1987, ISSN: 0020-7314. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. Socialized medicine: a solution to the cost crisis in health care in the United States. Journal Article In: International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 339–354, 1986, ISSN: 0020-7314. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S. Pitfalls of private medicine: health care in the USA. Journal Article In: Lancet (London, England), vol. 2, no. 8399, pp. 391–394, 1984, ISSN: 0140-6736. Himmelstein, D. U.; Woolhandler, S.; Harnly, M.; Bader, M. B.; Silber, R.; Backer, H. D.; Jones, A. A. Patient transfers: medical practice as social triage. Journal Article In: American journal of public health, vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 494–497, 1984, ISSN: 0090-0036 1541-0048.2025
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2024
@article{gaffney_less_2024,
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2023
@article{uppal_alleviating_2023,
title = {Alleviating Medical Debt in the United States.},
author = {Nishant Uppal and Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1056/NEJMp2306942},
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@article{himmelstein_corporate_2023,
title = {Corporate Efforts to Adopt and Distort the Social Determinants of Health Framework.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1177/27551938231162573},
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-07-01},
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journal = {International journal of social determinants of health and health services},
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abstract = {Over the past two centuries, progressive scholars have highlighted the health-harming effects of oppressive living and working conditions. Early studies delineated the roots of inequities in these social determinants of health in capitalist exploitation. Analyses in the 1970s and 1980s that adopted the social determinants of health framework emphasized the deleterious effects of poverty but rarely explored its origins in capitalist exploitation. Recently, major U.S. corporations have adopted and distorted the social determinants of health framework, implementing trivial interventions that serve as rhetorical cover for their myriad health-harming behaviors, and the Trump administration cited social determinants to justify imposing work requirements for persons seeking health insurance through Medicaid. Progressives should raise the alarm against the use of social determinants of health rhetoric to bolster corporate power and undermine health.},
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2022
@article{robertson_arizonas_2022,
title = {Arizona's debt collection reform-a small step towards health justice.},
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doi = {10.1136/bmj.o2822},
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@article{gaffney_medical_2022,
title = {A Medical and Moral Imperative: Testimony for the UṠ. Senate Budget Committee "Medicare for All" Hearing.},
author = {Adam W. Gaffney},
doi = {10.1177/00207314221122650},
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {52},
number = {4},
pages = {492–500},
abstract = {On May 12, 2022, Senator Bernie Sanders held a hearing in the U.S. Senate Budget Committee on Medicare for All legislation. These were the first such hearings in the U.S. Senate. In testimony presented to the Budget Committee, I argued that the achievement of Medicare for All was a medical and moral imperative. I explored the problem of uninsurance, noting that 30 million Americans remain uninsured at a cost of more than 30,000 deaths annually. I contended that improving the quality of coverage was equally crucial, describing how some 41 million Americans remain underinsured at a grave cost to their health and financial wellbeing. Finally, I examined the economics of Medicare for All reform, and showed how the reduction of the enormous administrative waste in American healthcare could save hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Medicare for All, I concluded, is the one health reform that could expand and improve coverage for all while simultaneously controlling costs.},
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@article{gaffney_lung_2022,
title = {Lung Transplantation Disparities among Patients with IPF: Recognition and Remedy.},
author = {Adam W. Gaffney},
doi = {10.1513/AnnalsATS.202202-123ED},
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-06-01},
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@article{gaffney_smoking_2022,
title = {Smoking Prevalence during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.},
author = {Adam Gaffney and David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
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issn = {2325-6621 2329-6933},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-06-01},
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@article{gaffney_potential_2022,
title = {A Potential Path to Universal Coverage With Medicare Advantage for All.},
author = {Adam Gaffney and David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
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@article{gaffney_full_2022,
title = {Full Coverage of COVID-19-related Care Was Necessary, but Do Other Pulmonary Patients Deserve Any Less?},
author = {Adam W. Gaffney},
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@article{gaffney_long_2022,
title = {The Long COVID Conundrum.},
author = {Adam W. Gaffney},
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
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2021
@article{himmelstein_recovering_2021,
title = {Recovering from Trump: Biden's first 100 days.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00979-X},
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year = {2021},
date = {2021-05-01},
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@article{himmelstein_health_2021-1,
title = {Health Care Crisis Unabated: A Review of Recent Data on Health Care in the United States.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1177/0020731420981497},
issn = {1541-4469 0020-7314},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-04-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {51},
number = {2},
pages = {182–187},
abstract = {We review recently published studies of US health policy and the nation's health care system. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, health inequalities were widening and care was inequitably distributed. Although the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion improved access to care and timely cancer diagnoses, a large proportion of US residents continued to avoid medical care due to concerns about costs, and access to mental health services remains particularly inadequate. Yet more evidence of private insurers' profit-driven misbehaviors and of corruption among medical leaders continues to emerge. Misguided incentives and lax regulation encourages nominally nonprofit health care providers to mimic for-profits' misconduct, and rapacious investors own and control an increasing share of physicians' practices. Pharmaceutical firms wield outsize political influence and devote far more funds to rewarding investors than to research and development effort. Yet despite vigorous efforts by pharma and other commercial interests to denigrate national health insurance, polls indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to increasing support for such reform.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2020
@article{gaffney_covid-19_2020,
title = {COVID-19 and US Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities.},
author = {Adam Gaffney and David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1177/0020731420931431},
issn = {1541-4469 0020-7314},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-10-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {50},
number = {4},
pages = {396–407},
abstract = {While the COVID-19 pandemic presents every nation with challenges, the United States' underfunded public health infrastructure, fragmented medical care system, and inadequate social protections impose particular impediments to mitigating and managing the outbreak. Years of inadequate funding of the nation's federal, state, and local public health agencies, together with mismanagement by the Trump administration, hampered the early response to the epidemic. Meanwhile, barriers to care faced by uninsured and underinsured individuals in the United States could deter COVID-19 care and hamper containment efforts, and lead to adverse medical and financial outcomes for infected individuals and their families, particularly those from disadvantaged groups. While the United States has a relatively generous supply of Intensive Care Unit beds and most other health care infrastructure, such medical resources are often unevenly distributed or deployed, leaving some areas ill-prepared for a severe respiratory epidemic. These deficiencies and shortfalls have stimulated a debate about policy solutions. Recent legislation, for instance, expanded coverage for testing for COVID-19 for the uninsured and underinsured, and additional reforms have been proposed. However comprehensive health care reform - for example, via national health insurance - is needed to provide full protection to American families during the COVID-19 outbreak and in its aftermath.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_intersecting_2020,
title = {Intersecting UṠ. Epidemics: COVID-19 and Lack of Health Insurance.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.7326/M20-1491},
issn = {1539-3704 0003-4819},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-07-01},
journal = {Annals of internal medicine},
volume = {173},
number = {1},
pages = {63–64},
abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented surge in unemployment in the United States. For many, job loss carries the added sting of losing health insurance. The authors discuss the problem of lack of health insurance during a time of risk for severe illness and offer potential solutions that policymakers should consider to mitigate harm.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_single-payer_2020,
title = {Single-Payer Reform: Heed the Evidence, Not the Soothsayers.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2105/AJPH.2020.305571},
issn = {1541-0048 0090-0036},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-04-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {110},
number = {4},
pages = {447–448},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{gaffney_illness_2020,
title = {Illness should not inflict financial ruin.},
author = {Adam Gaffney},
doi = {10.1136/bmj.m327},
issn = {1756-1833 0959-8138},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-02-01},
journal = {BMJ (Clinical research ed.)},
volume = {368},
pages = {m327},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2019
@article{himmelstein_health_2019,
title = {Health Care Crisis by the Numbers.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler and Clare Fauke},
doi = {10.1177/0020731419867207},
issn = {1541-4469 0020-7314},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-10-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {49},
number = {4},
pages = {697–711},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2018
@article{wolfe_it_2018,
title = {It Is Time to Liberate Hospitals from Profit-Centered Care.},
author = {Sidney M. Wolfe and Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1007/s11606-018-4448-0},
issn = {1525-1497 0884-8734},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-07-01},
journal = {Journal of general internal medicine},
volume = {33},
number = {7},
pages = {980–982},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_determined_2018,
title = {Determined Action Needed on Social Determinants.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.7326/M18-0335},
issn = {1539-3704 0003-4819},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-01},
journal = {Annals of internal medicine},
volume = {168},
number = {8},
pages = {596–597},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2017
@article{himmelstein_trumpcare_2017,
title = {Trumpcare or Transformation.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2105/AJPH.2017.303729},
issn = {1541-0048 0090-0036},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-05-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {107},
number = {5},
pages = {660–661},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@misc{gaffney_should_2017,
title = {Should US doctors mourn for Obamacare?},
author = {Adam Gaffney and Zackary D. Berger and Saurabh Jha},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-03-01},
volume = {356},
address = {England},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {misc}
}
@article{woolhandler_obama_2017,
title = {The Obama Years: Tepid Palliation for America's Health Scourges.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.2105/AJPH.2016.303531},
issn = {1541-0048 0090-0036},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {107},
number = {1},
pages = {22–24},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2016
@article{himmelstein_should_2016,
title = {Should We Abandon Routine Visits?},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Russell S. Phillips},
doi = {10.7326/L16-0321},
issn = {1539-3704 0003-4819},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-10-01},
journal = {Annals of internal medicine},
volume = {165},
number = {7},
pages = {529–530},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_should_2016-1,
title = {Should We Abandon Routine Visits? There Is Little Evidence for or Against.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Russell S. Phillips},
doi = {10.7326/M15-2097},
issn = {1539-3704 0003-4819},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-04-01},
journal = {Annals of internal medicine},
volume = {164},
number = {7},
pages = {498–499},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2014
@article{himmelstein_did_2014,
title = {Did extra resources or the medical home model improve care?},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.770},
issn = {2168-6114 2168-6106},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-06-01},
journal = {JAMA internal medicine},
volume = {174},
number = {6},
pages = {1008},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_global_2014,
title = {Global amnesia: embracing fee-for-non-service–again.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1007/s11606-013-2745-1},
issn = {1525-1497 0884-8734},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-05-01},
journal = {Journal of general internal medicine},
volume = {29},
number = {5},
pages = {693–695},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_pay-for-performance_2014,
title = {Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Dan Ariely and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2190/HS.44.2.a},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {44},
number = {2},
pages = {203–214},
abstract = {Pay-for-performance programs aim to upgrade health care quality by tailoring financial incentives for desirable behaviors. While Medicare and many private insurers are charging ahead with pay-for-performance, researchers have been unable to show that it benefits patients. Findings from the new field of behavioral economics challenge the traditional economic view that monetary reward either is the only motivator or is simply additive to intrinsic motivators such as purpose or altruism. Studies have shown that monetary rewards can undermine motivation and worsen performance on cognitively complex and intrinsically rewarding work, suggesting that pay-for-performance may backfire.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2013
@article{woolhandler_life_2013,
title = {Life or debt: underinsurance in America.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1007/s11606-013-2460-y},
issn = {1525-1497 0884-8734},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-09-01},
journal = {Journal of general internal medicine},
volume = {28},
number = {9},
pages = {1122–1124},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2012
@article{woolhandler_why_2012,
title = {Why pay for performance may be incompatible with quality improvement.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and Dan Ariely and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1136/bmj.e5015},
issn = {1756-1833 0959-8138},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-08-01},
journal = {BMJ (Clinical research ed.)},
volume = {345},
pages = {e5015},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2011
@article{dickman_health_2011,
title = {The health of prisoners.},
author = {Samuel L. Dickman and Josiah D. Rich},
doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60858-1},
issn = {1474-547X 0140-6736},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-06-01},
journal = {Lancet (London, England)},
volume = {377},
number = {9782},
pages = {2001–2002},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{rich_medicine_2011,
title = {Medicine and the epidemic of incarceration in the United States.},
author = {Josiah D. Rich and Sarah E. Wakeman and Samuel L. Dickman},
doi = {10.1056/NEJMp1102385},
issn = {1533-4406 0028-4793},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-06-01},
journal = {The New England journal of medicine},
volume = {364},
number = {22},
pages = {2081–2083},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_medical_2011,
title = {Medical bankruptcy in Massachusetts: has health reform made a difference?},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Deborah Thorne and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.11.009},
issn = {1555-7162 0002-9343},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-03-01},
journal = {The American journal of medicine},
volume = {124},
number = {3},
pages = {224–228},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Massachusetts' recent health reform has decreased the number of uninsured, but no study has examined medical bankruptcy rates before and after the reform was implemented. METHODS: In 2009, we surveyed 199 Massachusetts bankruptcy filers regarding medical antecedents of their financial collapse using the same questions as in a 2007 survey of 2314 debtors nationwide, including 44 in Massachusetts. We designated bankruptcies as "medical" based on debtors' stated reasons for filing, income loss due to illness, and the magnitude of their medical debts. RESULTS: In 2009, illness and medical bills contributed to 52.9% of Massachusetts bankruptcies, versus 59.3% of the bankruptcies in the state in 2007 (P=.44) and 62.1% nationally in 2007 (P<.02). Between 2007 and 2009, total bankruptcy filings in Massachusetts increased 51%, an increase that was somewhat less than the national norm. (The Massachusetts increase was lower than in 54 of the 93 other bankruptcy districts.) Overall, the total number of medical bankruptcies in Massachusetts increased by more than one third during that period. In 2009, 89% of debtors and all their dependents had health insurance at the time of filing, whereas one quarter of bankrupt families had experienced a recent lapse in coverage. CONCLUSION: Massachusetts' health reform has not decreased the number of medical bankruptcies, although the medical bankruptcy rate in the state was lower than the national rate both before and after the reform.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2010
@article{woolhandler_despite_2010,
title = {Despite the reform law, don't write off single payer.},
author = {Steffie J. Woolhandler},
issn = {1062-3388},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-04-01},
journal = {Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.)},
volume = {19},
number = {4},
pages = {24–26, 30},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_obamas_2010,
title = {Obama's reform: no cure for what ails us.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1136/bmj.c1778},
issn = {1756-1833 0959-8138},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-03-01},
journal = {BMJ (Clinical research ed.)},
volume = {340},
pages = {c1778},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2009
@article{woolhandler_grim_2009,
title = {Grim prognosis for massachusetts reform.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.604},
issn = {2694-233X 0278-2715},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-04-01},
journal = {Health affairs (Project Hope)},
volume = {28},
number = {2},
pages = {604–605; author reply 605},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_us_2009,
title = {US health care: single-payer or market reform.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/j.ucl.2008.08.007},
issn = {0094-0143},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-02-01},
journal = {The Urologic clinics of North America},
volume = {36},
number = {1},
pages = {57–62, vi},
abstract = {The authors advocate a fundamental change in health care financing-national health insurance (NHI). NHI would reorient the way we pay for care, bringing the hundreds of billions now squandered on malignant bureaucracy back to the bedside. NHI could restore the physician-patient relationship, offer patients a free choice of physicians and hospitals, and free physicians from the hassles of insurance paperwork.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2008
@article{himmelstein_national_2008,
title = {National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet?},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2105/ajph.98.supplement_1.s65},
issn = {1541-0048 0090-0036},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-09-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {98},
number = {9 Suppl},
pages = {S65–68},
abstract = {Single-payer national health insurance could cover the uninsured and upgrade coverage for most Americans without increasing costs; savings on insurance overhead and other bureaucracy would fully offset the costs of improved care. In contrast, proposed incremental reforms are projected to cover a fraction of the uninsured, at great cost. Moreover, even these projections are suspect; reforms of the past quarter century have not stemmed the erosion of coverage. Despite incrementalists' claims of pragmatism, they have proven unable to shepherd meaningful reform through the political system. While national health insurance is often dismissed as ultra left by the policy community, it is dead center in public opinion. Polls have consistently shown that at least 40%, and perhaps 60%, of Americans favor such reform.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2007
@article{woolhandler_care_2007,
title = {Care is complicated...but paying for it is simple: one government program.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein},
issn = {0160-7480},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-11-01},
journal = {Modern healthcare},
volume = {37},
number = {47},
pages = {32},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_consumer_2007,
title = {Consumer directed healthcare: except for the healthy and wealthy it's unwise.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1007/s11606-007-0187-3},
issn = {1525-1497 0884-8734},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-06-01},
journal = {Journal of general internal medicine},
volume = {22},
number = {6},
pages = {879–881},
abstract = {Many politicians and business leaders are advocating high deductible health insurance plans linked with health savings accounts–so-called consumer-directed healthcare. These policies penalize the sick, discourage needed care (especially primary and preventive care), and direct tax subsidies towards the wealthiest Americans. They offer little hope of slowing the growth of health care costs and add further bureaucratic costs and complexity to our health care financing system.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_massachusetts_2007,
title = {Massachusetts' approach to universal coverage: high hopes and faulty economic logic.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2190/Q81U-215K-6570-5121},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {2007},
date = {2007-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {37},
number = {2},
pages = {251–257},
abstract = {Massachusetts' new universal coverage law has been lauded as a national model. The legislation expands Medicaid HMOs to cover all of the poor (free of charge) and near poor (with partial subsidies), and requires the rest of the uninsured to pay for private coverage. Large employers that don't offer coverage will pay a small tax. Other provisions raise Medicaid payment rates to providers; expand some smaller programs for the poor; allow dependents to remain on family policies up to age 25; and require increased public disclosure of medical price and quality data. Unfortunately, the legislation includes grossly inadequate funding for the promised subsidies and assumes that the uninsured, most of whom are in lower-income families, can afford substantial premiums. Moreover, the required coverage will leave gaping holes–co-payments and deductibles that will leave families vulnerable to bankruptcy. All of the new coverage will be purchased from private insurers with high overhead costs. The bill includes no credible cost-containment mechanisms. The legislation reflects a political calculus favoring private insurers, and ignores the imperative of cost control and the financial realities of cash-strapped families. Hence, it is unlikely to achieve universal coverage or to stabilize the state's health care financing system.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2006
@article{woolhandler_new_2006,
title = {The new Massachusetts health reform: half a step forward and three steps back.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1353/hcr.2006.0086},
issn = {0093-0334},
year = {2006},
date = {2006-10-01},
journal = {The Hastings Center report},
volume = {36},
number = {5},
pages = {19–21},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2005
@article{himmelstein_hope_2005,
title = {Hope and hype: predicting the impact of electronic medical records.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1377/hlthaff.24.5.1121},
issn = {0278-2715},
year = {2005},
date = {2005-10-01},
journal = {Health affairs (Project Hope)},
volume = {24},
number = {5},
pages = {1121–1123},
abstract = {The current fascination with electronic medical records (EMRs) is not new. For decades, vendors have capitalized on this enthusiasm. But hospitals and clinics have ended up with little to show for their large outlays. Indeed, computing at a typical hospital has not gotten much beyond what was available twenty-five years ago. The RAND analysis continues the tradition of hope and hype. Unfortunately, behind their impressive predictions of savings lie a disturbing array of unproven assumptions, wishful thinking, and special effects.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2004
@article{himmelstein_utilization_2004,
title = {Utilization management: a bad review.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.08.011},
issn = {0002-9343},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-11-01},
journal = {The American journal of medicine},
volume = {117},
number = {9},
pages = {703–705},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_high_2004,
title = {The high costs of for-profit care.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1503/cmaj.1040779},
issn = {0820-3946 1488-2329},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-06-01},
journal = {CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne},
volume = {170},
number = {12},
pages = {1814–1815},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_national_2004,
title = {National health insurance: falling expectations and the safety net.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1097/01.mlr.0000124621.18867.ec},
issn = {0025-7079},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-05-01},
journal = {Medical care},
volume = {42},
number = {5},
pages = {403–405},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{mccormick_single-payer_2004,
title = {Single-payer national health insurance. Physicians' views.},
author = {Danny McCormick and David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler and David H. Bor},
doi = {10.1001/archinte.164.3.300},
issn = {0003-9926},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-02-01},
journal = {Archives of internal medicine},
volume = {164},
number = {3},
pages = {300–304},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Forty-one million Americans have no health insurance and, despite the growth of managed care, medical costs are again increasing rapidly. One proposed solution is a single-payer health care financing system with universal coverage. Yet, physicians' views of such a system have not been well studied. METHODS: We surveyed a random sample of physicians (from the American Medical Association Masterfile) in Massachusetts, regarding their views on a single-payer health care financing system and other financing and physician work-life issues that such a system might affect. RESULTS: Of 1787 physicians, 904 (50.6%) responded to our survey. When asked which structure would provide the best care for the most people for a fixed amount of money, 63.5% of physicians chose a single-payer system; 10.7%, managed care; and 25.8%, a fee-for-service system. Only 51.9% believed that most physician colleagues would support a single-payer system. Most respondents would give up income to reduce paperwork, agree that it is government's responsibility to ensure the provision of medical care, believe that insurance firms should not play a major role in health care delivery, and would prefer to work under a salary system. CONCLUSIONS: Most physicians in Massachusetts, a state with a high managed care penetration, believe that single-payer financing of health care with universal coverage would provide the best care for the most people, compared with a managed care or fee-for-service system. Physicians' advocacy of single-payer national health insurance could catalyze a renewed push for its adoption.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{azaroff_wounding_2004,
title = {Wounding the messenger: the new economy makes occupational health indicators too good to be true.},
author = {Lenore S. Azaroff and Michael B. Lax and Charles Levenstein and David H. Wegman},
doi = {10.2190/4H2X-XD53-GK0J-91NQ},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {34},
number = {2},
pages = {271–303},
abstract = {The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and workers' compensation insurers reported dramatic drops in rates of occupational injuries and illnesses during the 1990s. The authors argue that far-reaching changes in the 1980s and 1990s, including the rise of precarious employment, falling wages and opportunities, and the creation of a super-vulnerable population of immigrant workers, probably helped create this apparent trend by preventing employees from reporting some injuries and illnesses. Changes in the health care system, including loss of access to health care for growing numbers of workers and increased obstacles to the use of workers' compensation, compounded these effects by preventing the diagnosis and documentation of some occupational injuries and illnesses. Researchers should examine these forces more closely to better understand trends in occupational health.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2003
@article{woolhandler_proposal_2003,
title = {Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein and Marcia Angell and Quentin D. Young},
doi = {10.1001/jama.290.6.798},
issn = {1538-3598 0098-7484},
year = {2003},
date = {2003-08-01},
journal = {JAMA},
volume = {290},
number = {6},
pages = {798–805},
abstract = {The United States spends more than twice as much on health care as the average of other developed nations, all of which boast universal coverage. Yet more than 41 million Americans have no health insurance. Many more are underinsured. Confronted by the rising costs and capabilities of modern medicine, other nations have chosen national health insurance (NHI). The United States alone treats health care as a commodity distributed according to the ability to pay, rather than as a social service to be distributed according to medical need. In this market-driven system, insurers and providers compete not so much by increasing quality or lowering costs, but by avoiding unprofitable patients and shifting costs back to patients or to other payers. This creates the paradox of a health care system based on avoiding the sick. It generates huge administrative costs that, along with profits, divert resources from clinical care to the demands of business. In addition, burgeoning satellite businesses, such as consulting firms and marketing companies, consume an increasing fraction of the health care dollar. We endorse a fundamental change in US health care–the creation of an NHI program. Such a program, which in essence would be an expanded and improved version of traditional Medicare, would cover every American for all necessary medical care. An NHI program would save at least 200 billion dollars annually (more than enough to cover all of the uninsured) by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private, investor-owned insurance industry and reducing spending for marketing and other satellite services. Physicians and hospitals would be freed from the concomitant burdens and expenses of paperwork created by having to deal with multiple insurers with different rules, often designed to avoid payment. National health insurance would make it possible to set and enforce overall spending limits for the health care system, slowing cost growth over the long run. An NHI program is the only affordable option for universal, comprehensive coverage.},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_national_2003,
title = {National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet?},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2105/ajph.93.1.102},
issn = {0090-0036 1541-0048},
year = {2003},
date = {2003-01-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {93},
number = {1},
pages = {102–105},
abstract = {Single-payer national health insurance could cover the uninsured and upgrade coverage for most Americans without increasing costs; savings on insurance overhead and other bureaucracy would fully offset the costs of improved care. In contrast, proposed incremental reforms are projected to cover a fraction of the uninsured, at great cost. Moreover, even these projections are suspect; reforms of the past quarter century have not stemmed the erosion of coverage. Despite incrementalists' claims of pragmatism, they have proven unable to shepherd meaningful reform through the political system. While national health insurance is often dismissed as ultra left by the policy community, it is dead center in public opinion. Polls have consistently shown that at least 40%, and perhaps 60%, of Americans favor such reform.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2002
@article{lehman_1q3a_2002,
title = {Does employer-sponsored health care have a future?},
author = {Gregg Lehman and David Himmelstein and George Stockstill},
issn = {1068-8838},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-11-01},
urldate = {2002-11-01},
journal = {Hospitals & health networks},
volume = {76},
number = {11},
pages = {22},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_national_2002,
title = {National health insurance.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1377/hlthaff.21.5.299},
issn = {0278-2715},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-10-01},
journal = {Health affairs (Project Hope)},
volume = {21},
number = {5},
pages = {299},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_paying_2002,
title = {Paying for national health insurance–and not getting it.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1377/hlthaff.21.4.88},
issn = {0278-2715},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-08-01},
journal = {Health affairs (Project Hope)},
volume = {21},
number = {4},
pages = {88–98},
abstract = {The threat of steep tax hikes has torpedoed the debate over national health insurance. Yet according to our calculations, the current tax-financed share of health spending is far higher than most people think: 59.8 percent. This figure (which is about fifteen percentage points higher than the official Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] estimate) includes health care-related tax subsidies and public employees' health benefits, neither of which are classified as public expenditures in the CMS accounting framework. U.S. tax-financed health spending is now the highest in the world. Indeed, our tax-financed costs exceed total costs in every nation except Switzerland. But the sub rosa character of much tax-financed health spending in the United States obscures its regressivity. Public spending for care of the poor, elderly, and disabled is hotly debated and intensely scrutinized. But tax subsidies that accrue mostly to the affluent and health benefits for middle-class government workers are mostly below the radar screen. National health insurance would require smaller tax increases than most people imagine and would make government's role in financing care more visible and explicit.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_getting_2002,
title = {Getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS. Price adjustments falsify comparison.},
author = {David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler},
issn = {1756-1833 0959-8138},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-06-01},
journal = {BMJ (Clinical research ed.)},
volume = {324},
number = {7349},
pages = {1332; author reply 1332},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_national_2002-1,
title = {National health insurance: liberal benefits, conservative spending.},
author = {Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1001/archinte.162.9.973},
issn = {0003-9926},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-05-01},
journal = {Archives of internal medicine},
volume = {162},
number = {9},
pages = {973–975},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1999
@article{woolhandler_when_1999,
title = {When money is the mission–the high costs of investor-owned care.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1056/NEJM199908053410611},
issn = {0028-4793},
year = {1999},
date = {1999-08-01},
journal = {The New England journal of medicine},
volume = {341},
number = {6},
pages = {444–446},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1998
@article{himmelstein_nhs_1998,
title = {NHS at 50. An American view. National Health Service.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/s0140-6736(98)05241-6},
issn = {0140-6736},
year = {1998},
date = {1998-07-01},
journal = {Lancet (London, England)},
volume = {352},
number = {9121},
pages = {54–55},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_silence_1998,
title = {The silence of the doctors: fifty years after Nuremberg.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00125.x},
issn = {0884-8734 1525-1497},
year = {1998},
date = {1998-06-01},
journal = {Journal of general internal medicine},
volume = {13},
number = {6},
pages = {422–423},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1997
@article{himmelstein_bound_1997,
title = {Bound to gag.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
issn = {0003-9926},
year = {1997},
date = {1997-10-01},
journal = {Archives of internal medicine},
volume = {157},
number = {18},
pages = {2033},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_market_1997,
title = {Market medicine.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
issn = {1120-9763},
year = {1997},
date = {1997-06-01},
journal = {Epidemiologia e prevenzione},
volume = {21},
number = {2},
pages = {89–90},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1996
@article{woolhandler_annotation_1996,
title = {Annotation: patients on the auction block.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.2105/ajph.86.12.1699},
issn = {0090-0036 1541-0048},
year = {1996},
date = {1996-12-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {86},
number = {12},
pages = {1699–1700},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{tyrance_us_1996,
title = {US emergency department costs: no emergency.},
author = {P. H. Jr Tyrance and D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2105/ajph.86.11.1527},
issn = {0090-0036 1541-0048},
year = {1996},
date = {1996-11-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {86},
number = {11},
pages = {1527–1531},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Many perceive emergency department (ED) overuse as an important cause of high medical care costs in the United States. Managed care plans and politicians have seen constraints on ED use as an important element of cost control. METHODS: We measured ED-associated and other medical care costs, using the recently released 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey of approximately 35,000 persons in 14,000 households representative of the US civilian, noninstitutionalized population. RESULTS: In 1987, total ED expenditures were $8.9 billion, or 1.9% of national health expenditures. People with health insurance represented 86% of the population and accounted for 88% of ED spending. The uninsured paid 47% of ED costs themselves; free care covered only 10%. For the uninsured, the cost of hospitalization initiated by ED visits totaled $3.3 billion, including $1.1 billion in free care. Whites accounted for 75% of total ED costs. The ED costs of poor and near-poor individuals accounted for only 0.47% of national health costs. CONCLUSIONS: ED use accounts for a small share of US medical care costs, and cost shifting to the insured to cover free ED care for the uninsured is modest. Constraining ED use cannot generate substantial cost savings but may penalize minorities and the poor, who receive much of their outpatient care in EDs.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1995
@article{woolhandler_extreme_1995,
title = {Extreme risk–the new corporate proposition for physicians.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1056/NEJM199512213332510},
issn = {0028-4793},
year = {1995},
date = {1995-12-01},
journal = {The New England journal of medicine},
volume = {333},
number = {25},
pages = {1706–1708},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{boyd_tobaccohealth-insurance_1995,
title = {The tobacco/health-insurance connection.},
author = {J. W. Boyd and D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/s0140-6736(95)92104-4},
issn = {0140-6736},
year = {1995},
date = {1995-07-01},
journal = {Lancet (London, England)},
volume = {346},
number = {8967},
pages = {64},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_physician_1995,
title = {The physician workforce delusion.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1377/hlthaff.14.3.279},
issn = {0278-2715},
year = {1995},
date = {1995-01-01},
journal = {Health affairs (Project Hope)},
volume = {14},
number = {3},
pages = {279},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1994
@article{woolhandler_clintons_1994,
title = {Clinton's health plan: Prudential's choice.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.2190/QGAF-7LU5-FK81-J6A8},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {1994},
date = {1994-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {24},
number = {4},
pages = {583–592},
abstract = {President Clinton has proposed a managed competition model for health care reform. This strategy would accelerate the corporatization of U.S. health care resulting in more bureaucracy, less patient choice, and a health system owned by a few insurance giants. There is no evidence that competition or other central features of Clinton's plan can lower costs or improve quality. Because cost containment is doubtful, the promised expansion of coverage is unlikely to be implemented.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1993
@article{woolhandler_high_1993,
title = {High noon for UṠ. health care reform.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein and Q. Young},
doi = {10.2190/EGK0-F7H9-HY13-3YNA},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {1993},
date = {1993-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {23},
number = {2},
pages = {193–211},
abstract = {A growing popular movement besieges a health policy status quo near financial as well as moral bankruptcy. A single-payer, Canadian-style national health program would assure universal, egalitarian coverage; democratic, rather than corporate, control of key policy choices; financing based on ability to pay; and cost controls that spare needed care as well as health workers' standard of living. Despite a misinformation campaign (generously funded by insurance and pharmaceutical firms) that slanders the Canadian experience, most Americans favor a national health program. The public health community should fight for no less.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1991
@article{grumbach_liberal_1991,
title = {Liberal benefits, conservative spending. The Physicians for a National Health Program proposal.},
author = {K. Grumbach and T. Bodenheimer and D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1001/jama.265.19.2549},
issn = {0098-7484},
year = {1991},
date = {1991-05-01},
journal = {JAMA},
volume = {265},
number = {19},
pages = {2549–2554},
abstract = {The Physicians for a National Health Program proposes to cover all Americans under a single, comprehensive public insurance program without copayments or deductibles and with free choice of provider. Such a national health program could reap tens of billions dollars in administrative savings in the initial years, enough to fund generous increases in health care services not only for the uninsured, but for the underinsured as well. We delineate a transitional national health program budget that would hold overall health spending at current levels while accommodating increases in hospital and physician utilization. Future national health program spending would be indexed to the growth in gross national product adjusted for demographic, epidemiologic, and technologic shifts. Financing for the national health program would transfer funds into the public program without disrupting the general pattern of current revenue sources. We suggest a funding package that would augment existing government health spending with earmarked health care taxes. Because these new taxes would replace employer-employee insurance premiums and substantial portions of current out-of-pocket expenditures, they would not increase health costs for the average American.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1989
@article{woolhandler_national_1989,
title = {A national health program: northern light at the end of the tunnel.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
issn = {0098-7484},
year = {1989},
date = {1989-10-01},
journal = {JAMA},
volume = {262},
number = {15},
pages = {2136–2137},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_resolving_1989,
title = {Resolving the cost/access conflict: the case for a national health program.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.1007/BF02596493},
issn = {0884-8734},
year = {1989},
date = {1989-02-01},
journal = {Journal of general internal medicine},
volume = {4},
number = {1},
pages = {54–60},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_national_1989,
title = {A national health program for the United States. A physicians' proposal.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1056/NEJM198901123200206},
issn = {0028-4793},
year = {1989},
date = {1989-01-01},
journal = {The New England journal of medicine},
volume = {320},
number = {2},
pages = {102–108},
abstract = {Our health care system is failing. Tens of millions of people are uninsured, costs are skyrocketing, and the bureaucracy is expanding. Patchwork reforms succeed only in exchanging old problems for new ones. It is time for basic change in American medicine. We propose a national health program that would (1) fully cover everyone under a single, comprehensive public insurance program; (2) pay hospitals and nursing homes a total (global) annual amount to cover all operating expenses; (3) fund capital costs through separate appropriations; (4) pay for physicians' services and ambulatory services in any of three ways: through fee-for-service payments with a simplified fee schedule and mandatory acceptance of the national health program payment as the total payment for a service or procedure (assignment), through global budgets for hospitals and clinics employing salaried physicians, or on a per capita basis (capitation); (5) be funded, at least initially, from the same sources as at present, but with all payments disbursed from a single pool; and (6) contain costs through savings on billing and bureaucracy, improved health planning, and the ability of the national health program, as the single payer for services, to establish overall spending limits. Through this proposal, we hope to provide a pragmatic framework for public debate of fundamental health-policy reform.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1988
@article{himmelstein_aiming_1988,
title = {Aiming so low we hit our own feet. The limits of incrementalism.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
issn = {0017-9051},
year = {1988},
date = {1988-01-01},
journal = {Health PAC bulletin},
volume = {18},
number = {2},
pages = {20–21},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1987
@article{woolhandler_transplanted_1987,
title = {Transplanted technology: Third World options and First World science.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein and B. Labar and S. Lang},
doi = {10.1056/NEJM198708203170810},
issn = {0028-4793},
year = {1987},
date = {1987-08-01},
journal = {The New England journal of medicine},
volume = {317},
number = {8},
pages = {504–506},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_national_1987,
title = {A national health program for the United States.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.7326/0003-4819-106-5-783_1},
issn = {0003-4819},
year = {1987},
date = {1987-05-01},
journal = {Annals of internal medicine},
volume = {106},
number = {5},
pages = {783},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{woolhandler_physicians_1987,
title = {Physicians for a National Health Program.},
author = {S. Woolhandler and D. U. Himmelstein},
doi = {10.2190/C343-W933-786Q-1R3T},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {1987},
date = {1987-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {17},
number = {4},
pages = {703–706},
abstract = {A new organization called Physician's for a National Health Program (PNHP) is mobilizing physician support for a universal, comprehensive public system of health care for the United States. Recent changes in power relations within medicine (the so-called proletarianization of physicians) are prodding many physicians to abandon their traditional reactionary role in health policy. PNHP is working with elderly, labor, community, and health care activist groups to put a national health program (NHP) back on the U.S. health policy agenda. In this article, five key features of an NHP needed to simultaneously assure access, control costs, and minimize bureaucracy are noted.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1986
@article{himmelstein_socialized_1986,
title = {Socialized medicine: a solution to the cost crisis in health care in the United States.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.2190/03FK-FN53-2P5B-ERD5},
issn = {0020-7314},
year = {1986},
date = {1986-01-01},
journal = {International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation},
volume = {16},
number = {3},
pages = {339–354},
abstract = {Despite growing concern with cost containment, most health policy analysts have ignored vast potential savings on medically irrelevant spending for excess administration, profits, high physician incomes, marketing, and legal involvement in medicine. Indeed, many recent reforms encourage administrative hypertrophy, entrepreneurialism and litigation. A universal national health program could abolish billing and consequently the need for much of the administrative apparatus of health care, and decrease spending for profits and marketing. In this article we analyze the administrative savings that could be realized from instituting a Canadian-style national health insurance program or a national health service similar to that in Britain, and the potential savings from additional reforms to curtail profits, marketing and litigation. Our calculations based on 1983 data suggest that national health insurance would save $42.6 billion annually: $29.2 billion on health administration and insurance overhead, $4.9 billion on profits, $3.9 billion on marketing, and $4.6 billion on physician's incomes. A national health service would save $65.8 billion: $38.4 billion on health administration and insurance overhead, $4.9 billion on profits, $3.9 billion on marketing, and $18.6 billion on physician's incomes. Complete nationalization of all health related industries and reform of the malpractice system would save at least $87.2 billion per year. We conclude that a national health program, in addition to improving access to health care for the oppressed, could achieve cost containment without rationing of care.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1984
@article{himmelstein_pitfalls_1984,
title = {Pitfalls of private medicine: health care in the USA.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler},
doi = {10.1016/s0140-6736(84)90555-5},
issn = {0140-6736},
year = {1984},
date = {1984-08-01},
journal = {Lancet (London, England)},
volume = {2},
number = {8399},
pages = {391–394},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
@article{himmelstein_patient_1984,
title = {Patient transfers: medical practice as social triage.},
author = {D. U. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler and M. Harnly and M. B. Bader and R. Silber and H. D. Backer and A. A. Jones},
doi = {10.2105/ajph.74.5.494},
issn = {0090-0036 1541-0048},
year = {1984},
date = {1984-05-01},
journal = {American journal of public health},
volume = {74},
number = {5},
pages = {494–497},
abstract = {We studied 458 consecutive patient transfers from 14 private hospitals to a public hospital emergency room during a six-month period. The transferred patients were predominantly male, young, and uninsured, and included large numbers of minority group members. We established criteria to identify patients at high risk for adverse effects of transfer and reviewed the clinical records of the 103 patients meeting these criteria. We judged that transfer resulted in substandard care for 33 of these patients, either because they were at risk for life-threatening complications in transit or because urgently needed diagnosis or therapy was delayed. In the community studied, transfer is a common and potentially dangerous medical intervention which appears to reinforce racial and class inequalities of access to medical care.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
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