Report of Reference Committee A2016 AMA Annual Meeting, June 11-15, 1016Excerpt from the Reference Committee report:AMA members understand that the financing of health care in
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.
AMA adopts resolution for study of health care payment models, including single payer
AMA members understand that the financing of health care in the United States is highly flawed, even after implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Although
European experience with voluntary health insurance
Voluntary health insurance in Europe: role and regulationBy Anna Sagan and Sarah ThomsonWorld Health OrganizationEuropean Observatory on Health Systems and PoliciesObservatory Studies Series No. 43Many
European experience with voluntary health insurance
Many European nations, in addition to having some form of universal or near-universal health insurance, also have optional voluntary health insurance plans (VHI). These have
Over 100 million prescriptions written before drug safety recalls
Unsafe Drugs Were Prescribed More Than One Hundred Million Times in the United States Before Being RecalledBy Sonali Saluja, Steffie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein, David
Over 100 million prescriptions written before drug safety recalls
Since it is impossible to read all of the research studies on new drugs, we can be thankful that we have the Food and Drug
High cost sharing for low-value services may increase overall health care spending
Impact of Increased Cost Sharing on Utilization of Low Value ServicesBy Jonathan Gruber; Catherine Maclean; Kevin G. Volpp; Bill Wright; Eric WilkinsonAmerican Society of Health
High cost sharing for low-value services may increase overall health care spending
It seems intuitive that value-based insurance design (VBID), such as requiring much higher patient cost sharing for low-value care (e.g., much greater out-of-pocket payments for
Fixing the federal budget through tax policies rather than program reductions
Hearing: The Need to Control Automatic Spending and Unauthorized ProgramsU.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the BudgetJune 9, 2016Witnesses:The Honorable David M. Walker, Former Comptroller
Fixing the federal budget through tax policies rather than program reductions
Although this hearing was allegedly about programs for which spending is mandatory (such as Social Security and Medicare) and the failure of Congress to formally
Fed Reserve of NY: Medicaid provides financial peace of mind
Is Health Insurance Good for Your Financial Health?By Nicole Dussault, Maxim Pinkovskiy, and Basit Zafar Federal Reserve Bank of New York, June 6, 2016What is
Fed Reserve of NY: Medicaid provides financial peace of mind
One of the most important purposes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health care affordable. After all, “Affordable” is in its name.
