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Health Justice Monitor

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.

Understanding Insurer Profits: ā€œ4.5%ā€ = 30%

Posted January 9, 2022

Summary: Today we scrutinize health insurer profit margins. Magically, a modest apparent margin of 4.5% reveals itself upon closer inspection to be a ginormous 30%.

Deception Comeuppance: Theranos & Privatized US Health Insurance

Posted January 5, 2022

Summary: Yesterday Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of four counts of fraudulently representing the capabilities of Theranos, her incredibly hyped lab tech company. Good; that was

Temporary & Tenuous Health System Boosts Don’t Cut it

Posted January 3, 2022

Summary: The ACA is currently more generous and thus popular, but it’s time-limited. The ā€œBuild Back Betterā€ bill proposes some incremental fixes, but they’re tenuous.

Single Payer Overview 2021 & 2022

Posted January 1, 2022

Summary: The 2021-2022 transition invites contemplation of health reform over the past year and upcoming. We process last year via a perusal of HJM. We

Bonuses Fail to Improve Clinical Quality in Medicare Advantage

Posted December 24, 2021

Summary: A new study finds that financial incentives failed to raise clinical quality measures in Medicare Advantage plans. This completes HJM Medicare Advantage week, in

Medicare Advantage for All: A Bad Idea for Single Payer

Posted December 22, 2021

Summary: A recent commentary in JAMA proposed using private insurance health plans as intermediaries in a universal health insurance system, instead of direct payments from

Medicare Advantage Places Us at a Disadvantage

Posted December 20, 2021

Summary: This week we scrutinize Medicare Advantage (MA). Today: A survey from the Center for Medicare Advocacy found that MA plans deny, reduce, delay, and

Failure of Nursing Home Safety Monitoring

Posted December 17, 2021

Summary: NY Times research found a huge gap between safety problems found in nursing homes and the public reporting of those problems. Quality star ratings

COVID Stumble: US Politics, Vaccine Hesitancy, & Mortality

Posted December 15, 2021

Summary: On Monday we posted on how well Taiwan dealt with COVID; today, one way the US fell sadly short. NPR reports that COVID mortality

Navigating the COVID pandemic: Taiwan’s Example

Posted December 13, 2021

Summary: As the US approaches 800,000 COVID deaths, this week we review how pandemic control fared in two countries. Today: Taiwan, where broad public cooperation

Health Insurance Headlines of the Single Payer Future

Posted December 10, 2021

Summary: And now for something completely different: We take cost headlines recently reported in KHN (Kaiser Health News) and imagine how they would look under

Privatizing Jail Healthcare Increases Death Rates

Posted December 8, 2021

Summary: A Reuters investigation found 7,571 inmate deaths across >500 US jails from 2008-2019, including nearly 5000 among inmates awaiting trial. Death risks were 18-58%

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