What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending DynamicsBy Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel,
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.
Jonathan Cohn on Jeb Bush’s health care plan
Backgrounder: Health Care PlanJeb!, October 13, 2015ObamaCare must be repealed and replaced. To position American health care to make the most of the potential of
US government is abandoning health insurance co-ops
Financial health shaky at many Obamacare insurance co-opsBy Amy GoldsteinThe Washington Post, October 10, 2015A new breed of health insurers created under the Affordable Care
Physician concentration drives up prices
Less Physician Practice Competition Is Associated With Higher Prices Paid For Common ProceduresBy Daniel R. Austin and Laurence C. BakerHealth Affairs, October 2015AbstractConsolidation of physician
More on high health spending and poor population health in U.S.
U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 CountriesBy David Squires, Chloe AndersonThe Commonwealth Fund, October 8,
What lessons can we learn from Europe’s health insurance exchanges?
Risk Selection Threatens Quality Of Care For Certain Patients: Lessons From Europe’s Health Insurance ExchangesBy Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven, Richard C. van
High-cost patients exit private Medicare Advantage plans
High-Cost Patients Had Substantial Rates Of Leaving Medicare Advantage And Joining Traditional MedicareBy Momotazur Rahman, Laura Keohane, Amal N. Trivedi and Vincent MorHealth Affairs, October
Risk corridor stabilization fund – another ACA failure
Big shortfall in Obamacare risk program could hurt insurersBy Tami LuhbyCNN Money, October 2, 2015A key federal program designed to cushion health insurers' risks in
Can Sec. 1557 be used to prevent discriminatory adverse tiering?
The Section 1557 Regulation: What’s Missing, And How We Can Include ItBy Douglas JacobsHealth Affairs Blog, September 21, 2015By Douglas Jacobs | Health Affairs Blog
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Academic leaders corrupting themselves in the medical-industrial complex
Prevalence and compensation of academic leaders, professors, and trustees on publicly traded US healthcare company boards of directors: cross sectional studyBy Timothy S Anderson, Chester
FEHBP premium increases indicate that we have not controlled health care costs
Federal health-care plan costs to rise by most in five yearsBy Eric YoderThe Washington Post, September 29, 2015The enrollee share of premiums in the health
OECD: Fiscal sustainability of health systems
Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems: Bridging Health and Finance PerspectivesOECD, September 2015From the ForwardBecause of ever-increasing health care costs, all nations are concerned about the