By The Times Editorial BoardLos Angeles Times, July 12, 2016California lawmakers have been trying for more than a decade to protect hospital patients from being
For more than 20 years, PNHP’s Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.
PNHP has archived Dr. McCanne’s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Ending the scourge of surprise medical bills
There are many injustices inherent in our dysfunctional, fragmented system of financing health care, and surprise medical bills from out-of-network physicians is one of them.
President Obama on progress and the future of health care reform
United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next StepsBy Barack Obama, JDJAMA, July 11, 2016 (Online)AbstractImportance: The Affordable Care Act is the most
President Obama on progress and the future of health care reform
In this JAMA article, President Obama understandably touts the benefits of his Affordable Care Act (ACA) and describes some of the problems that remain that
Access to preferred physicians impaired by private health plans
Secret Shoppers Find Access To Providers And Network Accuracy Lacking For Those In Marketplace And Commercial PlansBy Simon F. Haeder, David L. Weimer and Dana
Access to preferred physicians impaired by private health plans
Covered California is one of the best functioning health insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), yet 70 percent of patients enrolled were
Single payer versus free market for health care reform
POINT: Should Pulmonary/ICU Physicians Support Single-payer Health-care Reform? YesBy Adam W. Gaffney, MD, Philip A. Verhoef, MD, PhD, Jesse B. Hall, MD, FCCPChest, July 2016As
Single payer versus free market for health care reform
Although a tremendous amount of data has been generated explaining why the advances of the Affordable Care Act are grossly inadequate and why we need
Insurance fragmentation promotes adverse and advantageous selection
NBER Working Paper No. 22338: Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D PlansBy Kurt Lavetti and Kosali SimonNational Bureau of Economic Research, June 2016AbstractThe simple
Insurance fragmentation promotes adverse and advantageous selection
The simple conclusion of this highly technical paper is that fragmentation of health insurance - using the example of Medicare Part D drug benefits -
Redistribution of health care from the poor to the wealthy
Health Spending For Low-, Middle-, And High-Income Americans, 1963–2012By Samuel L. Dickman, Steffie Woolhandler, Jacob Bor, Danny McCormick, David H. Bor, and David U. HimmelsteinHealth
Redistribution of health care from the poor to the wealthy
Today’s important message is well stated in the Conclusion of the article: “Increasing income inequality has drawn much attention in recent years. Our findings suggest
