By Alexander Sammon
The American Prospect, October 20, 2020
There is perhaps no component of health insurance where the private sector has failed more profoundly than long-term
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.
What would Jesus say about health care sharing ministries?
By Reed Abelson
The New York Times, October 20, 2020
New York State accused a major Christian group on Tuesday of deceiving customers by illegally offering health
Georgia’s Medicaid waivers
CMS.gov, October 15, 2020
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under the leadership of President Trump, announced action it has taken to advance
What tradeoffs warrant rejection of the single payer model?
By David M. Cutler
Health Affairs Blog, October 2, 2020
This post explores the possibility of saving money by reducing the administrative costs of health care.
Reducing administrative
Price transparency is another diversion from much needed reform
By Harris Meyer
Health Affairs Blog, October 13, 2020
Last month’s Rand Corporation report on the prices paid for inpatient and outpatient services to more than 3,000
Verma says value-based care provides a ‘very poor return in investment’
By Robert King
Fierce Healthcare, October 13, 2020
Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said that some value-based care payment
CMS: Enrollment in unsubsidized ACA plans declined by 45%
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, October 9, 2020
Introduction
This report provides data on enrollment trends for people who purchased on- and off-Exchange individual market health
Three years of declining health coverage for children
By Joan Alker, Alexandra Corcoran
Georgetown University, Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families, October 8, 2020
Introduction
For many years, the United States was on a
China helps the world; we hardly help ourselves
The vaccine partnership would help ensure equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine—including in the United States—but Trump won’t participate.
By Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin,
NEJM: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
By The Editors
The New England Journal of Medicine, October 8, 2020
Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of
CBO: Achieving near-universal coverage
Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, October 2020
In this report, CBO describes the key features—specifically, the enrollment process, premiums, cost sharing and benefits,
Support for a single national health program is increasing
By Bradley Jones
Pew Research Center, September 29, 2020
A majority of Americans continue to say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans