Dropout Docs: Bay Area Doctors Quit Medicine to Work for Digital Health StartupsBy Christina FarrKQED, July 17, 2015New data provided exclusively to KQED shows that
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Beware the fine print in private health plans
āIllegal Activityā Fine Print Leaves Some Insured, but UncoveredBy Roni Caryn RabinThe New York Times, July 20, 2015Thereās no video of the altercation between Monroe
Gerard Anderson on new payment models
Will Hospitals Lose Money Under Obamacare?By Kimberly LeonardU.S. News & World Report, July 17, 2015As Anderson says, āThe Affordable Care Act was really about coverage.
The importance of predictable unpredictability in long-term financing of Medicare
Predictable Unpredictability: The Problem with Basing Medicare Policy on Long-Term Financial ForecastingBy Sherry A. Glied, and Abigail ZaylorThe Commonwealth Fund, July 13, 2015Conclusion: Uncertainty Is
Marilyn Tavenner moves from CMS to AHIP to āprotect Medicare Advantageā
Head of Obamaās Health Care Rollout to Lobby for InsurersBy Robert PearThe New York Times, July 15, 2015Marilyn B. Tavenner, the former Obama administration official
New data on the deficiencies of health savings accounts
The Consumer Finance of Health Savings AccountsBy Jake SpiegelHelloWallet, July 2015Health Savings Accounts are a rapidly growing savings vehicle that accompanies High-Deductible Health Plans and
WHO validates Cuba as first nation to eliminate maternal-fetal HIV transmission
WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in CubaWorld Health Organization, June 30, 2015Cuba today became the first country in the world
Distributive injustices in U.S. health care
Distributive Injustice(s) in American Health CareBy Clark C. Havighurst and Barak D. RichmanDuke Law School, January 2007, Research Paper No. 140AbstractThis paper was published in
Paying the deductible year after year
New Evidence on the Persistence of Health SpendingBy Richard A. Hirth, Teresa B. Gibson, Helen G. Levy, Jeffrey A. Smith, Sebastian CalĆ³nico, Anup DasMedical Care
Seidman and Pollack: ACA versus Medicare for All
Point-CounterpointJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, August 2015The Affordable Care Act versus Medicare for AllBy Laurence SeidmanAbstractThis pair of Point-Counterpoint articles from the Journal
Baicker and Chandra on cost sharing
The Veiled Economics of Employee Cost SharingBy Katherine Baicker, PhD; Amitabh Chandra, PhDJAMA Internal Medicine, July 2015This year, once again, millions of people in the
New drugs fail to align benefits, risks and costs
Serious Risks And Few New Benefits From FDA-Approved DrugsBy Donald W. LightHealth Affairs Blog, July 6, 2015Over the past year, the U.S. Senate and The