New Program in Coachella Valley Seeks Affordability in Personalized Primary CareBy Lauren McSherryCalifornia Healthline, August 24, 2015Joseph Scherger, a primary care physician at Eisenhower Medical
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.
What do insured patients see as financial burdens of health care?
Financial Burden of Health Care Costs Among Insured: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: August 2015By Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann BrodieKaiser Family Foundation, August 20,
Over 2 million exchange enrollees forgo cost-sharing reductions
More than 2 Million Exchange Enrollees Forgo Cost-Sharing AssistanceBy Elizabeth CarpenterAvalere, August 19, 2015One of the more prominent problems with our dysfunctional system of financing
Fundamental flaw of Republican health reform proposals
Scott Walker, Marco Rubio Propose ‘Plans’ to Replace ObamacareBy Jonathan ChaitNew York Magazine, August 18, 2015Much has been written this week about the proposals of
PolitiFact accurate but misleading on Sanders’s claim of U.S. spending twice as much
Bernie Sanders repeats flawed claim about U.S. health care spending compared to other countriesBy Will CabanissPolitiFact, August 16, 2015Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is on
Health care injustice for California’s high-needs children
California’s Plan To Absorb Medically Fragile Children Into Managed Care Proves ControversialBy Barbara Feder Ostrov and Anna GormanKaiser Health News, August 17, 2015When Kausha King’s
Do Amy Finkelstein and colleagues show that Medicaid has little value?
The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance ExperimentBy Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendren & Erzo F.P. LuttmerNational Bureau of Economic Research, Working
Is patching ACA the best approach for now?
Next Steps for the Affordable Care ActBy Linda J. Blumberg, John HolahanUrban Institute, August 12, 2015While the ACA has already had some very important successes,
NHIS shows ACA is working, but how well?
Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January–March 2015By Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D. and Michael E. Martinez, M.P.H., M.H.S.A.National
IG report on problems with eligibility determinations in exchange plans
Not All of the Federally Facilitated Marketplace's Internal Controls Were Effective in Ensuring That Individuals Were Properly Determined Eligible for Qualified Health Plans and Insurance
Can we celebrate the decline in the numbers of uninsured?
In U.S., Uninsured Rates Continue to Drop in Most StatesBy Dan WittersGallup, August 10, 2015The marketplace exchanges opened on Oct. 1, 2013, with new insurance
Many confused by tax filing requirements could lose their ACA tax credits
Tax Filing Problems Could Jeopardize Health Law Aid for 1.8MBy Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarAssociated Press, August 4, 2015About 1.8 million households that got financial help for health