Survey of Non-Group Health Insurance Enrollees, Wave 3By Liz Hamel, Jamie Firth, Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton, and Mollyann BrodieKaiser Family Foundation, May 20, 2016This survey
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.
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Growing dissatisfaction with higher premiums and greater cost-sharing
Today’s report confirms the growing dissatisfaction with higher premiums and greater cost-sharing of not only ACA-compliant non-group plans but also employer-sponsored group plans as well.
A Canadian expert experiences the U.S. health care system
Commentary: Single-payer essential to controlling health-care costsBy David WoodsThe Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 2016One hears these days mutterings by disaffected Americans that if Donald Trump
A Canadian expert experiences the U.S. health care system
This article by David Woods is an important contribution to our efforts to inform our colleagues and the public on the true facts about the
Adam Gaffney responds to NYT’s Margot Sanger-Katz on cost of single payer
A Single-Payer Plan From Bernie Sanders Would Probably Still Be ExpensiveBy Margot Sanger-KatzThe New York Times, May 16, 2016There have been a multitude of recent
Adam Gaffney responds to NYT’s Margot Sanger-Katz on cost of single payer
There have been a multitude of recent media reports indicating that a single payer program, as proposed by Bernie Sanders, would cost much more than
Gallup: Majority support federally funded health care system
Majority in U.S. Support Idea of Fed-Funded Healthcare SystemBy Frank NewportGallup, May 16, 2016Presented with three separate scenarios for the future of the Affordable Care
Gallup: Majority support federally funded health care system
Although this new Gallup poll has been widely interpreted in the media as showing strong national support for single payer reform, the actual question was
sdrawkcab reform
Sorry, We Don’t Take ObamacareBy Elisabeth RosenthalThe New York Times, May 14, 2016When explaining that health care reform seems to be moving backwards, does it
sdrawkcab reform
When explaining that health care reform seems to be moving backwards, does it improve communication to discuss reform that is sdrawkcab (ananym of backwards)?
Republicans planning further privatization of Medicare
GOP closing in on ObamaCare alternative, lawmakers sayBy Peter Sullivan and Sarah FerrisThe Hill, May 12, 2016House Republicans huddled behind closed doors on Thursday to
Republicans planning further privatization of Medicare
The House Republicans will soon release a white paper describing the policies they recommend for replacing the Affordable Care Act. A few details have been