Auditors: feds failed to rein in billions in over-billing by Medicare AdvantageBy Fred SchulteThe Center for Public Integrity, May 9, 2016Private Medicare Advantage plans treating
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.
CMS not fulfilling obligation to recover Medicare Advantage overpayments
Today’s message provides yet one more example of CMS’s complicity in the privatization of Medicare. What does that mean and why does it matter? Medicare
Is Hillary Clinton’s Medicare buy-in proposal a step towards single payer?
Hillary Clinton Takes a Step to the Left on Health CareBy Alan Rappeport and Margot Sanger-KatzThe New York Times, May 10, 2016Mrs. Clinton is moving
Is Hillary Clinton’s Medicare buy-in proposal a step towards single payer?
Hillary Clinton is once again bringing back the proposal to allow for people under 65 to have the option of purchasing coverage under Medicare -
Urban Institute’s attack on single payer
The Sanders Single-Payer Health Care Plan: The Effect on National Health Expenditures and Federal and Private SpendingBy John Holahan, Matthew Buettgens, Lisa Clemans-Cope, Melissa M.
Urban Institute’s attack on single payer
Hillary Clinton has declared that she will not consider single payer. When the policy community should be making efforts to convince her to support a
Mark Pauly’s answer to high drug prices: Walk away
Maybe we are to blame in part for rising cancer drug pricesBy Mark V. Pauly, PhDPhilly.com, May 9, 2016The prices of oral cancer drugs are
Mark Pauly’s answer to high drug prices: Walk away
Drug prices are out of control. Wharton School’s Mark V. Pauly, PhD, of “moral hazard” fame, suggests that we, as consumers, can do something about
Kids need healthy mothers
How Are Moms Faring under the Affordable Care Act? Evidence through 2014By Michael Karpman, Jason Gates, Genevieve M. Kenney, Stacey McMorrowUrban Institute, May 5, 2016The
Kids need healthy mothers
Most would agree that having healthy mothers would be of benefit to their children. Suppose 5.9 million mothers were uninsured, wouldn’t it seem that we
A Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform
AJPH Editorials: Moving Forward From the Affordable Care Act to a Single-Payer SystemBy Adam Gaffney, Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein and Marcia AngellAmerican Journal of Public
A Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform
We propose to replace the ACA with a publicly financed National Health Program (NHP) that would fully cover medical care for all Americans, while lowering