By Jessie Hellmann
The Hill, September 16, 2020
Some health insurance brokers provided misleading or false information to potential customers about whether their plans covered preexisting conditions,
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.
We have another billion patients to take care of
By Gene Bukhman, MD, Ana O Mocumbi, MD, Prof Rifat Atun, FRCP, Prof Anne E Becker, MD, Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta, PhD, Prof Agnes Binagwaho, PhD,
Let’s help cities join the Medicare for All bandwagon
By Harry Saltzgaver
The Grunion, September 10, 2020
Mayor Robert Garcia said Thursday, Sept. 10, he and the mayor of Oakland have created an organization to promote
Unionized nursing homes have lower COVID-19 mortality rates
By Adam Dean, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Simeon Kimmel
Health Affairs, September 10, 2020 (Ahead of print)
Abstract
More than 40% of all reported coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths
British Columbia rules health care access to be based on need and not ability to pay
Business Wire, September 10, 2020
In today’s landmark ruling in the Cambie Surgery Centre case, Justice Steeves dealt a strong blow to the efforts of Dr.
MIPS penalizes physicians who take care of vulnerable populations
By Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P.; William L. Schpero, Ph.D.; Amelia M. Bond, Ph.D.; Yuting Qian, M.S.; Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D.
JAMA, September 8, 2020
Key Points
Question:
Medicaid managed care plans reduce spending by providing less of everything
By Michael Geruso, Timothy J. Layton, Jacob Wallace
National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2020
Abstract
Exploiting random assignment of Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care plans, we identify
The CO-OP failure should be a lesson for a Medicare public option
By Phil Galewitz and Kaiser Health News
Fortune, September 6, 2020
New Mexico Health Connections’ decision to close at year’s end will leave just three of the
Warren, Pressley and Lee introduce ‘Anti-Racism in Public Health Act’
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, September 3, 2020
The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act would create a Center on Anti-Racism in Health
Racism and sickle cell disease
By Alexandra Power-Hays, M.D. and Patrick T. McGann, M.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, September 1, 2020
The merciless killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police
Why are the British so far ahead of us in Covid-19 research?
The U.S. could learn a lot from Britain.
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Cathy Zhang and Amaya Diana
The New York Times, September 1, 2020
Americans and American biomedical
Non-pharmaceutical interventions were less effective in reducing mortality in Republican counties
By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Neeraj Kaushal, Ashley N. Muchow
National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2020
Abstract
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information