Why Many Nonprofit (wink, wink) Hospitals Are Rolling in Money, The Washington Post, July 22, 2024, by Elisabeth Rosenthal
One owns a for-profit insurer, a venture
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.
Medicare for All Prospects in a New Presidential Administration
Where Kamala Harris stands on health care issues, The Hill, July 22, 2024, by Nathaniel Weixel
While running against Biden in the 2019 Democratic primary, Harris
Three Crumbling Health Insurance Pillars
Healthcare Affordability and Value Indexes 2021-2024, West Health-Gallup, July 2024
Cost security among U.S. adults dipped to its lowest level ever in 2024, down 6 points
Critiquing Project 2025: Medicare
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, April 2024, The Heritage Foundation & partner organizations, Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare (p.
FTC: PBMs Inflate Drug Costs & Punish Local Pharmacies
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies, Interim Staff Report, Federal Trade Commission, July 2024
Executive Summary:
PBMs [negotiate] the
Critiquing Project 2025: Private Health Insurance
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, April 2024, The Heritage Foundation & partner organizations, Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services
Affordable Care
Critiquing Project 2025: Medicaid
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, April 2024, The Heritage Foundation & partner organizations, Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services
Medicaid Reform
Critiquing Project 2025
Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” released in April, threatens to replace modern American values with a retrograde vision. This 900-page action plan
Urgent Care Price Gaming
Even Doctors Like Me Are Falling Into This Medical Bill Trap, The New York Times, Op-Ed, June 17, 2024, by Danielle Ofri
Last July, my daughter
Time, Supply, and Single Payer
Supply-Side Healthcare?, Phenomenal World, May 9, 2025, by Adam Gaffney
The politics of hospital care and construction
As some pundits tell it … “supply-side” competition-based expansion is
Medical Debt, U.S. Pandemic
The State of Medical Debt in the U.S., (2-hour video with ten experts), Lown Institute, May 20, 2024, Website article by Noelle Serino
Medical debt has
The Many Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage
Commentary:
By Ed Weisbart, M.D., PNHP National Board Secretary
Our health is just an innocent bystander in the wake of damage the corporate insurance industry is inflicting
