By Jessica Roy : sfchronicle – excerpt
Every birthday is worth celebrating. But in California, you might celebrate a little more when you turn 55 — especially if you own a home.
What’s all the excitement about? It’s the age you become eligible to sell your home and buy a new one while retaining your property tax basis, thanks to Proposition 19… (more)
This is actually a tease for the next article that is a lot more compelling in my opinion, and there is no firewall.
Primary Care as a Public Utility
The Case for a Common Fund
Importance More than one-third of US adults lack access to primary care, which has increasingly become a commodity rather than the common good envisioned by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Many states are working to bolster primary care, but face common challenges related to federalism, fragmentation of health insurance, and administrative hurdles that undermine their efforts to invest in primary care. These challenges are discussed and one potential solution is described: a primary care common fund that finances and pays for primary care from the perspective of a public utility…
Conclusions and Relevance As people in the US increasingly struggle to find a primary care clinician, state investments in primary care share common challenges. A primary care common fund could help states overcome these challenges by pooling resources and paying for primary care as a public utility—consistent with the vision of primary care as a common good—without disrupting the rest of the health care system. This approach is supported by precedent and paths toward feasibility… (more)