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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.

The Burdens of Prior Authorization

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Denying Your Health Care Is Big Business in America, On YouTube, NYT Opinion Video, March 14, 2024, Video by Alexander Stockton

Doctors are often required to get

Private Equity vs. Health Care

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Private Equity-Acquired Physician Practices and Market Penetration Increased Substantially. 2012-21, Health Affairs, March 2024, by Ola Abdelhadi, et al.

Private equity (PE) firms have consistently shown

Medicare Advantage Worsens Coverage

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What Do Medicare Beneficiaries Value About Their Coverage?, Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2024 Value of Medicare Survey, February 22, 2024, by Gretchen Jacobson, et

Veterans Care Under Attack

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Trump’s VA Plans Look Too Much Like Biden’s VA Reality, The American Prospect, Feb. 19, 2024, by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early

While Project 2025 plots

Failure to Address Homelessness Harms Health

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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

Presidential Leadership in US Health Reform

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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

Reversing the Corporate Practice of Medicine

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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