Medicare Drug Spending DashboardBy Andy Slavitt, Acting CMS Administrator and Niall Brennan, CMS Chief Data OfficerThe CMS Blog, December 21, 2015Today, CMS is releasing a
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.
Republicans and Democrats concerned about health care costs
Healthcare costs a top concern for Republican and Democratic votersBy Jilian Mincer and Erin McPikeReuters, December 21, 2015Americans want to know what the next U.S.
PolitiFact rates Sanders TRUE on U.S. health spending
Fact-checking Sanders' claim that U.S. spends 3 times per capita what the U.K. spends on health careBy Jon GreenbergPolitiFact, December 20, 2015Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,
Private insurers are data mining our personal information
Insurers want to nudge you to better health. So they’re data mining your shopping listsBy Rebecca RobbinsSTAT, December 15, 2015Health insurers are scooping up huge
Kaiser Poll: 58% of Americans support Medicare for all
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: December 2015By Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann BrodieKaiser Family Foundation, December 17, 2015From the Tracking Poll:Many political insiders contend that
Medi-Cal fails to provide adequate health care access for 7 million California Latinos
MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUNDNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAMCIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTERFEINBERG, JACKSON, WORTHMAN & WASOW LLPTo: Office for Civil Rights, U.S.
Differences in prices and spending under Medicare and private insurance
The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health CareBy Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-KatzThe New York Times, December 15, 2015Much
Final rule on requirements for Section 1332 state waivers
Waivers for State InnovationDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDepartment of the TreasuryTo be published in the Federal Register 12/16/2015SummarySection 1332 of the Affordable Care Act
Influential conservative policy wonks present their health care reform proposal
Improving Health And Health Care: An Agenda For ReformBy Joseph Antos, James Capretta, Lanhee Chen, Scott Gottlieb, Yuval Levin, Thomas Miller, Ramesh Ponnuru, Avik Roy,
Widening gap between private and public payments for hospital care
The Growing Difference Between Public And Private Payment Rates For Inpatient Hospital CareBy Thomas M. Selden, Zeynal Karaca, Patricia Keenan, Chapin White, and Richard KronickHealth
Since enactment of ACA more than half of physicians experiencing burnout
Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2014By Tait D. Shanafelt, MD; Omar
How might the Anthem/Cigna merger affect their health plans?
Cigna CEO David Cordani: ACA Marketplace Is Still In ‘Version 1.0’By Julie ApplebyKaiser Health News, December 7, 2015Cigna CEO David Cordani says the individual market