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Quote of the Day

For more than 20 years, PNHP’s Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.

PNHP has archived Dr. McCanne’s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.

John Geyman: The Medical-Industrial Complex…plus exciting changes at qotd

Posted April 28, 2021

“America's Mighty Medical-Industrial Complex: Negative Impacts and Positive Solutions”
By John Geyman

This book has three goals: (1) to bring an historical perspective to how medicine and

Quote of the Day interlude

Posted April 12, 2021

By Don McCanne, M.D.

Quote of the Day will take a brief interlude. We are refining our approach to communicating information to educate and advocate for

More trouble: Drug industry consolidation

Posted April 8, 2021

Over 30 years, dramatic consolidation has meant higher prices, fewer treatment options and less incentive to innovate
By Robin Feldman
The Washington Post, April 6, 2021

In the

Will mega-corporations trump Medicare for All?

Posted April 7, 2021

The merger between a subsidiary of UnitedHealth and Change Healthcare would create a vertically integrated, all-seeing giant.
By Krista Brown, Olivia Webb
The American Prospect, April 5,

Charity care in government, nonprofit, and for-profit hospitals

Posted April 6, 2021

By Ge Bai, Hossein Zare, Matthew D. Eisenberg, Daniel Polsky, and Gerard F. Anderson
Health Affairs, April 2021

Abstract

The different tax treatment of government, nonprofit, and for-profit

Why do 45 million Americans feel compelled to donate to medical crowdfunding sites?

Posted April 5, 2021

About 1 in 5 American adults reported donating to a crowdfunding campaign to help raise money for a medical bill or treatment over the last

Health care remains unaffordable for about one-fifth of U.S. adults

Posted April 2, 2021

By Dan Witters
Gallup, March 31, 2021

Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults -- 18%, about 46 million people -- report that if they needed access to quality healthcare

Californians support health care coverage for undocumented immigrants

Posted April 1, 2021

By George Skelton
Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2021

It was a breakthrough event befitting Cesar Chavez Day: A major poll showed that California voters support providing

Medicare for All would improve cancer outcomes for the near elderly

Posted March 31, 2021

By Deven C. Patel, M.D., M.S.; Hao He, Ph.D.; Mark F. Berry, M.D.; Chi‐Fu Jeffrey Yang, M.D.; Winston L. Trope, B.E.; Yoyo Wang, B.S.; Natalie

The VA advantage in the public sector

Posted March 30, 2021

A new study confirms that VA patients get better health care at a lower overall cost.
By Suzanne Gordon, Russell Lemle
The American Prospect, March 25, 2021

The

What about our ubiquitous non-compliant plans?

Posted March 29, 2021

March 25, 2021

From the Executive Summary

Our organizations represent millions of patients and consumers across the country who live with serious, acute and chronic health conditions.

Private equity piles on debt to pull cash from health firms

Posted March 26, 2021

By Sabrina Willmer
Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2021

Healthcare companies are taking on more debt to pay dividends to their private equity owners, just a year

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