Summary: Amazon just entered the medical provider business, buying a large medical firm. Their goal: to make money by finding insured, well-off, and inexpensive patients. It’s
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.
Price Transparency (Alone) Is Not Enough
Summary: The New York Times recently posted a wonderfully produced video op-ed bemoaning hospitals’ failure to abide by federal price transparency rules. But price transparency is
Racism in the Inflation Reduction Act: No Medicaid Expansion
Summary: As noted in HJM yesterday, the IRA contains historic advances, including first-ever drug cost controls. Unfortunately, it also perpetuates historic injustices inflicted on people of
Medicare Drug Features in the Inflation Reduction Act: Hints of Single Payer
Summary: The Inflation Reduction Act, the scaled-down version of “Building Back Better” now headed for presidential signature, has large health insurance provisions. These include multiple first-ever
AMA President-Elect Must Engage with Single Payer
Summary: The newly elected president of the American Medical Association is an accomplished physician, both civilian and military, a philanthropic leader, and a gay parent. He
Social Democracy vs. No Democracy
Summary: Western Europe and other wealthy countries are thriving with social democracy. The US is struggling with social problems and threats to our democratic integrity. A
British Columbia Reaffirms Canadian Single Payer
Summary: Canada’s “Medicare” financing system is a leading example for the US of what single payer can accomplish. Yet there are recurring challenges to the law
Single Payer Household Cost Calculator
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This translates the recent Healthy California for All Commission findings
“I was wrong” A Health Economist Acknowledges How Financing Experiments Failed Our Health System
Summary: Imagine … a mainstream health economist apologizes for decades of promoting incremental health care financing reforms, each one failing as system performance deteriorated. He
Saving a Global Environment Conducive to Human Life is Job #1
Summary: Our human world faces two existential threats: nuclear war and global warming. Yet the public and elected officials fail to take climate devastation seriously. Health
Dr. Glaucomflecken Doctor Visit in Another Country
Summary: The unique tragedy of an expensive and ineffective US health system is summed up in a quick, hilarious sketch. Brilliant! Humor for social change is
Medicaid Coverage Does Not Assure Access to Care
Summary: Coverage with Medicaid – health insurance for the poor – increased in recent years. But as a new study reveals for cancer, coverage does not