Summary: The author of Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It trenchantly describes the fiscal and health damage done to the
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.
Amazon Primary Care Financializes Health Data & Threatens Privacy
Summary: With the acquisition of One Medical, Amazon becomes a primary care middleman. It wants to access your medical records and sell the data, sacrificing
Ady Barkan’s Alert on Medicare Advantage
Summary: Mr. Barkan, a resolute and articulate advocate for single payer / Medicare for All, warns us about privatization of Medicare via Medicare Advantage. We must
Medicare-for-All Legislation in the Senate & House
Summary: Senator Bernie Sanders & Representative Pramila Jayapal re-introduced their Medicare-for-All bills on May 17th. Although prospects for passage are low this Congress, enthusiasm for organizing
Insane Drug Prices & Gaming = Huge Profits for Pharma & PBMs
Summary: Two news items this week lay bare US drug cost problems. The underlying cause is prices several-fold higher than elsewhere. Exacerbating that is convoluted gaming
Primary Care Corporate Takeover a Challenge for Single Payer
Summary: The large-scale corporate appropriation of primary care reflects and enables the profiteering that now dominates US health care. The doctor-patient relationship suffers. Single payer financing
Single Payer Would Radically Transform Health Policy Research
Summary: The May 2023 issue of Health Affairs, the leading health policy journal, has 20 articles. In our assessment, 9 of them would be unnecessary and
Call for a National Health System
Summary: PNHP founders Woolhandler and Himmelstein propose that progressive health reform needs updating to respond to the widespread takeover of providers by for-profit corporations. The original
Suing for Inflated Bariatric Surgery Fees
Summary: Aggressive collection tactics by a large bariatric surgery practice exemplify widespread problems with our health insurance: complex payment arrangements, confusing and misleading financial contracts, widely
Oracle Health Data Profit Fantasies
Summary: Oracle Health, acquired by Cerner, is pursuing a global cloud-based health records repository. Except that they can’t even succeed in five Veteran’s Administration hospitals. And
Rescuing Primary Care, Part 2
Summary: In Part 1, we discussed how primary care is being acquired and distorted by huge corporations pursuing massive profits. Today, we present a competing vision: a broad
Today thru Sunday! Medicare for All Strategy Conference 2023
Summary: Check out this terrific online conference.
The theme is “Everybody In: Racial Equity & Medicare for All.”
Lots of great speakers—knowledgeable activists.
Register here: https://medicareforall23.sched.com