Visiting Professor of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance

Internal Medicine

David Himmelstein is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He researched medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is one of the top medical schools in the US. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is ranked 8/52 in Research/PrimaryCare. Dr. David U. Himmelstein is also published. He has 101 publications published. The lastest publication: "Leaving a county hospital against medical advice.'

Publications

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• The Current and Projected Taxpayer Shares of US Health Costs.
• Medical Causes and Consequences of Home Foreclosures.
• Support for National Health Insurance Seven Years Into Massachusetts Healthcare Reform: Views of Populations Targeted by the Reform.
• Public Health's Falling Share of US Health Spending.
• For-profit dialysis: the authors reply.
• High administrative costs: the authors reply.
• Did extra resources or the medical home model improve care?
• Global Amnesia: Embracing Fee-For-Non-Service-Again.
• Physician payment incentives to improve care quality.
• Life or Debt: Underinsurance in America.
• Infective endocarditis in the u.s., 1998-2009: a nationwide study.
• Why pay for performance may be incompatible with quality improvement.
• The crisis in mental health care: a preliminary study of access to psychiatric care in Boston.
• Medical bankruptcy in Massachusetts: has health reform made a difference?
• Life and health insurance industry investments in fast food.
• Hospital computing and the costs and quality of care: a national study.
• Proposals for payment reform in Massachusetts.
• Health insurance and mortality in US adults.
• Hypertension, diabetes, and elevated cholesterol among insured and uninsured U.S. adults.
• The regressivity of taxing employer-paid health insurance.
• Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: results of a national study.
• Increasing length of stay among adult visits to U.S. Emergency departments, 2001-2005.
• The health and health care of US prisoners: results of a nationwide survey.
• U.S. physicians' views on financing options to expand health insurance coverage: a national survey.
• Grim prognosis for massachusetts reform.
• US health care: single-payer or market reform.
• Free drug samples in the United States: characteristics of pediatric recipients and safety concerns.
• National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet?
• Sources of U.S. physician income: the contribution of government payments to the specialist-generalist income gap.
• A national study of chronic disease prevalence and access to care in uninsured U.S. adults.
• Waits to see an emergency department physician: U.S. trends and predictors, 1997-2004.
• Characteristics of recipients of free prescription drug samples: a nationally representative analysis.
• Privatization in a publicly funded health care system: the U.S. experience.
• Insurance status of U.S. organ donors and transplant recipients: the uninsured give, but rarely receive.
• State health reform flatlines.
• Lack of health coverage among US veterans from 1987 to 2004.
• Double catastrophe: injury-related bankruptcies.
• Consumer directed healthcare: except for the healthy and wealthy it's unwise.
• Treating opioid addiction with buprenorphine-naloxone in community-based primary care settings.
• U.S. medical students' knowledge about the military draft, the Geneva Conventions, and military medical ethics.
• Massachusetts' approach to universal coverage: high hopes and faulty economic logic.
• The new Massachusetts health reform: half a step forward and three steps back.
• Access to care, health status, and health disparities in the United States and Canada: results of a cross-national population-based survey.
• Discounting the debtors will not make medical bankruptcy disappear.
• Brief report: Influenza vaccination and health care workers in the United States.
• Hope and hype: predicting the impact of electronic medical records.
• Health care expenditures of immigrants in the United States: a nationally representative analysis.
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Asian Indians in the United States.
• Illness and injury as contributors to bankruptcy.
• America's neglected veterans: 1.7 million who served have no health coverage.
• Utilization management: a bad review.
• National health insurance: falling expectations and the safety net.
• Single-payer national health insurance. Physicians' views.
• Administrative waste in the U.S. health care system in 2003: the cost to the nation, the states, and the District of Columbia, with state-specific estimates of potenti...
• Health care administration in the United States and Canada: micromanagement, macro costs.
• Costs of health care administration in the United States and Canada.
• Relationship between low quality-of-care scores and HMOs' subsequent public disclosure of quality-of-care scores.
• National health insurance.
• Paying for national health insurance--and not getting it.
• National health insurance: liberal benefits, conservative spending.
• Timing of new black box warnings and withdrawals for prescription medications.
• No care for the caregivers: declining health insurance coverage for health care personnel and their children, 1988-1998.
• Taking care of business: HMOs that spend more on administration deliver lower-quality care.
• Do minorities in the United States receive fewer mental health services than whites?
• Does investor-ownership of nursing homes compromise the quality of care?
• Identifying Individual Risk Factors and Documenting the Pattern of Heat-Related Illness through Analyses of Hospitalization and Patterns of Household Cooling.
• Care is complicated...but paying for it is simple: one government program.
• Impact of insurance status on migraine care in the United States: a population-based study.
• A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States.
• Insurance-industry investments in tobacco.
• 1Q[3a]. Does employer-sponsored health care have a future? .
• Getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS. Price adjustments falsify comparison.
• Our health care system at the crossroads: single payer or market reform?
• Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system.
• Proposal of the Physicians'' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance.
• The high costs of for-profit care.
• Obama''s reform: no cure for what ails us.
• Leaving a county hospital against medical advice.
• Perils of prediction in U.S./Canadian comparisons.
• Bias in, bias out: a reply to Sheils, Young, and Rubin.
• The vanishing health care safety net: new data on uninsured Americans.
• The case for a national health program.
• A national long-term care program for the United States. A caring vision. The Working Group on Long-term Care Program Design, Physicians for a National Health Program.
• Debating national health insurance alternatives.
• The deteriorating administrative efficiency of the U.S. health care system.
• Liberal benefits, conservative spending. The Physicians for a National Health Program proposal.
• Who cares for the care givers? Lack of health insurance among health and insurance personnel.
• Beyond our means: patterns of variability of physiological traits.
• The Jackson National Health Program.
• Ideology in medical science: class in the clinic.
• Dipstick urinalysis screening of asymptomatic adults for urinary tract disorders. I. Hematuria and proteinuria.
• Dipstick urinalysis screening of asymptomatic adults for urinary tract disorders. II. Bacteriuria.
• A national health program: northern light at the end of the tunnel.
• Militarism and mortality. An international analysis of arms spending and infant death rates.
• A national health program for the United States. A physicians' proposal.
• Resolving the cost/access conflict: the case for a national health program.
• The corporate compromise: a Marxist view of health maintenance organizations and prospective payment.
• Cost without benefit. Administrative waste in U.S. health care.
• Socialized medicine: a solution to the cost crisis in health care in the United States.
• The "Cadillac Tax" on Health Benefits in the United States Will Hit the Middle Class Hardest: Refuting the Myth That Health Benefit Tax Subsidies Are Regressive.

Schools

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• Columbia University College Of Physicians and Surgeons

• Highland HospitalUcsf Ca

• Harvard Med School Boston

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Alameda County Medical Center
• Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Hospital

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• Montefiore Medical Center
• Cambridge Health Alliance

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