Summary: Seniors face much greater financial barriers to medical care in the US than in other wealthy countries. Why? Because we’re handing Medicare over to
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.
Dental care for Medicare!
Summary: Medicare has always lacked dental services. Some dentists are now offering dental practice “memberships”. But dental health is too important to be handled piecemeal
Racism in US health, two reminders
Summary: Racism in US health manifests in multiple guises and scales. Today we report on two diverse country-wide phenomena most severely harming Blacks: thousands of
No relief from private insurance market concentration
Summary: The American Medical Association finds rising health insurer concentration. That’s bad, because powerful private insurers undermine the healthcare experience. What we need is fully
Medicare Advantage & DCEs: How Corporate Investors Deplete Medicare
Summary: Private investors have devised and exploit clever mechanisms to obtain massive payments and outlandish profits from Medicare. These manipulations started with Medicare Advantage, and
NYT: The multifaceted failings of US health insurance
Summary: The New York Times, the most respected US daily newspaper, over the last week prominently published three stories about startling failings in our health
High Uninsurance post-ACA for Low-Income, Black, Hispanic Americans
Summary: This study used a national survey to document high levels of uninsurance among vulnerable populations after ACA implementation, especially in states not choosing to
Californians Crave Single Payer!
Summary: Three diverse California groups – doctors in training, low income populations, and leaders of community-based organizations — recently showed high support for single payer.
If USC is ready for single payer, it’s time!
Summary: The University of Southern California medical school is often regarded as high class. But at least two of its current top leaders share health
Allowing For-Profit Hospice: The Worst Health Policy Idea Ever?
Summary: For-profit ownership has reached two-thirds of hospice agencies. Yet for-profit status is associated with fewer services, less clinically skilled staff, more formal complaints, more
Crowdsource ideas on government role in single payer
Summary: Today is an experiment: crowdsource day at Health Justice Monitor! We know that HJM readers think about healthcare reform and discuss it with family
Am I a Single Payer Zealot?
Summary: Yes, I am.
Health Care Unions Defending Newsom From Recall Will Want Single-Payer Payback, KHN (Kaiser Health News), September 13, 2021, by Angela Hart
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