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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.

Surgeon General Muddled Insights on Health Reform

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Former U.S. Surgeon General: We’re Not Ready as a Nation for Single-Payer Healthcare; High Medical Debt ‘Obliterating Our Country’s Future’, MedPage Today, June 4-5, 2024,

Health Care Cost Burden for Privately Insured

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Financial Burden of Health Care in the Privately Insured US Population, JAMA Internal Medicine, May 28, 2024, by Sukreth A. Shashikumer, et al.

Improving health care

Saving Veterans Health Care

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Privatization Warning, The American Prospect, April 11, 2024, by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early

A VA advisory panel issues a red alert on outsourcing.
In response to

Bernie on Medicare for All

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The day will come when we will succeed in making health care a human right, YouTube video (7 min), May 23, 2024, by Bernie Sanders

Transcript:
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Insured Percent Up; Care Affordability Plunging

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Health costs threaten to overshadow Biden’s historic coverage gains, Axios, May 14, 2024, by Caitlin Owens

President Biden has come closer than any of his Democratic

Reversing Vertical Merger-Mania in Health Care

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Medicare Advantage and Vertical Consolidation in Health Care, American Economic Liberties Project, April 30, 2024, by Hayden Rooke-Ley

[HJM Editor: Today’s excerpt is dense with policy,

The Synergy of Clinical and Social Care in the US

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Money as Medicine – Clinicism, Cash Transfers, and the Political-Economic Determinants of Health, New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2024, by Eric Reinhart

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Clinicism