Encyclical Letter of the Holy Father, Francis
Chapter Five: A Better Kind of Politics
168. The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are
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.
President Trump could still come to the rescue
By Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman and Matt Stevens
The New York Times, October 2, 2020
President Trump’s announcement early Friday that he had contracted the coronavirus upended
Investors extracting assets from hospitals
Prospect Medical, which mostly serves low-income patients, has suffered a litany of problems: broken elevators, dirty surgical gear, bedbugs and more. Its owners, including Leonard
Reasons for being uninsured
By Amy E. Cha, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D.
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, September 2020
Data from the National Health Interview Survey
Key findings
Competing visions for the future of health policy
By Matthew Fiedler, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, September 24, 2020
There is broad agreement that policy changes could improve the U.S. health care system.
Fair drug prices through an international price index
By Marc A. Rodwin
Health Affairs Blog, September 24, 2020
The Trump administration and House Democrats share one idea regarding pharmaceutical price controls: They agree that the
Trump’s America First Healthcare Plan
The White House, September 24, 2020
Section 1. Purpose. Since January 20, 2017, my Administration has been committed to the goal of bringing great healthcare to
J. Gruber: No market-based solutions to cost control
Interview of Jonathan Gruber by Caroline Miller
American Healthcare Journal, September 9, 2020
Caroline Miller: Ten years on, how would you grade the Affordable Care Act?
Jonathan Gruber:
Shutting down urban hospitals of last resort
By Jordan Rau and Emmarie Huetteman
Kaiser Health News, September 17, 2020
While rural hospitals have been closing at a quickening pace over the past two decades,
Are members of the policy community driven by beneficial policies or by ideology?
By Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., and Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, September 16, 2020
Political slogans paint stark choices for health care reform: “Medicare
Venture capitalists are moving into mental health
By Ravi N. Shah, M.D., M.B.A.; Obianuju O. Berry, M.D., M.P.H.
JAMA Psychiatry, September 16, 2020 (Online first)
Mental health care is ripe for innovation. Less than
RAND: Private insurers overpay hospitals
RAND, September 18, 2020
Prices paid to hospitals nationally during 2018 by privately insured patients averaged 247% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation