Finland Sees Housing and Health as Inextricably Linked, The Commonwealth Fund, International Insights, Vol. 24, by Munira Z. Gunja
It’s hard to imagine that just four
The McCanne Health Justice Monitor is produced by a team of health policy experts and single-payer champions. For more information, and a complete archive of entries, visit the HJM website. For an archive of Quote of the Day entries from Dr. Don McCanne, click here.
Presidential Leadership in US Health Reform
Letters from An American, February 18, 2024, by Heather Cox Richardson
That the American people in the twenty-first century celebrate Abraham Lincoln as a great president
No Surprises Act has Unpleasant Surprises for Providers & Patients
Is the No Surprises Act backfiring on patients? And why is HHS Secretary Becerra letting it happen?, Health Care Un-Covered, February 14, 2024, by Wendell
Reversing the Corporate Practice of Medicine
A Call To Action To Take The Profession Back from Corporate Interests, TAKE MEDICINE BACK, October 2023, by Mitchell Li, M.D.; Sailesh Konda; and Robert
Reminders that Private Insurers Use Shady Tactics to Manipulate and Deceive Us
Opinion: Ouch. That ‘free’ annual checkup might cost you. Here’s why, Washington Post, January 24, 2024, by Elisabeth Rosenthal
When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for
Value-Based Care Failed, Let’s Admit it and Progress to Real Reform
Federal Budgetary Effects of the Activities of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, September 2023
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid
Wealth Inequality Drives Health Inequality
Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US, JAMA Internal Medicine, January 29, 2024, by Kathryn E. W. Himmelstein, Alexander C. Tsai, Atheendar S. Venkataramani
Question:
Oregon & California on Parallel Paths to Universal Unified Financing Health Care
Oregon SB 1089 (now enacted law)
(5) “Single payer health care financing system” means a universal system used by the state for paying the cost of healthcare
Who is most efficient in health care? Surprise, it’s the VA
Administration’s Share of Personnel in Veterans Health Administration and Private Sector Care, JAMA Network Open, January 18, 2024, by Steffie Woolhandler, Andrew Toporek, Jian Gao,
Growing Job-Based Insurance Premiums Exacerbate Income Inequality
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premium Cost Growth and Its Association with Earnings Inequality Among US Families, JAMA Network Open, January 16, 2024, by Kurt Hager, Ezekiel
Most Medical Debt Now from the Insured
Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance, The Guardian, January 11, 2024, by Jessica Glenza
People with health insurance may now represent
Financialization – Structural Harm to US Health Care
The Financialization of Health in the United States, NEJM, January 11, 2024, by JD Bruch, V Roy, CM Grogan
We believe that health policy discussions concerning