Editorial: End of Arches points to single-payerThe Salt Lake Tribune, October 29, 2015The collapse of Utah's cooperative insurance provider, the Arches Health Plan, was not
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.
ACA plans do not always have a full complement of in-network specialists
Adequacy of Outpatient Specialty Care Access in Marketplace Plans Under the Affordable Care ActBy Stephen C. Dorner, MSc; Douglas B. Jacobs, ScB; Benjamin D. Sommers,
Evaluation of the ColoradoCare initiative by PNHP’s founders and Policy Director
Brief Comments on ColoradoCareBy Ida Hellander, M.D., David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.Physicians for a National Health Program, October 27. 2015Organizers for
Why are the media celebrating a 7.5% ACA premium increase?
2016 Marketplace Affordability SnapshotCMS.gov, October 26, 2015The 2016 Affordability Snapshot provides a review of the final rate increases for second lowest cost silver plans, known
IRS Form 8962 may cause individuals to lose their ACA premium subsidies
Thousands Who Didn’t File Tax Returns May Lose Health Care SubsidiesBy Robert PearThe New York Times, October 25, 2015Tens of thousands of people with modest
Fareed Zakaria on single payer, using lesson from Kenneth Arrow
Fareed Zakaria: Health IT is no magic bulletBy Bernie MonegainHealthcare IT News, October 21, 2015As Fareed Zakaria sees it, the remedy for America's ailing and
Sarah Kliff shops for health care
I thought people should shop more for health care. Then I actually tried it.By Sarah KliffVox, October 19, 2015I spend most of my time writing
Hedge funds are driving up drug prices
Hedge Funds Attack American Health CareHedge Clippers, September 30, 2015It’s not just one highly unethical man: dozens of high-flying financial speculators at hedge funds and
“We are not Denmark,” but…
This article includes videoU.S. Health Care Could Be More Like Denmark’sBy Steffie WoolhandlerRoom for Debate, The New York Times, October 20, 2015In last week’s Democratic debate, when Bernie
Do exit studies show that private Medicare Advantage plans are more efficient?
The Efficiency Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage ExitsBy Mark Duggan, Jonathan Gruber, Boris VabsonThe National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2015NBER
Financial barriers are slowing rate of enrollment in ACA plans
How Many Individuals might Have Marketplace Coverage at the End of 2016?Department of Health and Human Services, October 15, 2015Last year, the Secretary of Health
Is it just red-state policies that cause so many to remain uninsured?
Covering the Remaining Uninsured: Not Just a Red-State IssueBy Drew AltmanThe Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2015Texas should be ashamed. They have the largest number