The Rise and Potential of Physician Unions
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The Rise and Potential of Physician Unions
Unions can and must make a shift analogous to the National Trust and Parkinson’s UK, reorienting themselves to enable their members to collaborate both to champion the importance and to improve the standards of the profession in question; not just sell them insurance and fight rearguard battles to defend their interests.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Unions can and must make a shift analogous to the National Trust and Parkinson’s UK, reorienting themselves to enable their members to collaborate both to champion the importance and to improve the standards of the profession in question; not just sell them insurance and fight rearguard battles to defend their interests.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
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journals.sagepub.comAt their best, unions have through history provided a vital check and balance, representing the collective interests of workers and producers, ‘the people,’ in constructive tension with business owners. The Consumer Story moved the focal point. Now ‘the people’ were the Consumers, not the producers or workers, and business owners and the state took
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
At their best, unions have through history provided a vital check and balance, representing the collective interests of workers and producers, ‘the people,’ in constructive tension with business owners. The Consumer Story moved the focal point. Now ‘the people’ were the Consumers, not the producers or workers, and business owners and the state took
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
In both cases, providers and patients are working toward their own self-interest given the health care choices they face. Health care providers are trying to make the best living possible by structuring days to see a maximum number of patients, in light of the demands that administrative and paperwork place on their time. Patients and their familie
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The argument is that if providers start going out of business or consolidating, it leaves insurers with fewer suppliers of care to their members, which increases supplier power. The authors propose that each insurer scales up payments to primary care providers, and they astutely recommend policies that minimize the risk of free ridership, which cou... See more
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