Some patients are still receiving staggering bills. Others don’t qualify because conditions other than Covid-19 were their primary diagnosis.
By Abby Goodnough
The New York Times, August
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.
Factors associated with racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19
By Jose F. Figueroa, Rishi K. Wadhera, Dennis Lee, Robert W. Yeh, and Benjamin D. Sommers
Health Affairs, August 27, 2020 (published ahead of print)
Abstract
Massachusetts has
EPI update on health insurance losses and policy recommendations
What we know so far about health insurance losses and what it means for policy
By Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer
Economic Policy Institute, August 26, 2020
Although
About keeping that great union insurance…
Changes to the guild’s cash-strapped health plan could force thousands of seniors off their coverage in the middle of a pandemic.
By Jeremy Fuster
Portside, LABOR, August
Private equity acquisition in health care – a blunderbuss
By Joseph D. Bruch, B.A.; Suhas Gondi, B.A.; Zirui Song, M.D., Ph.D.
JAMA Internal Medicine, August 24, 2020
From the Introduction
Private equity investment in health care has
Partisan differences in acceptability of coronavirus deaths
By William Cummings
USA TODAY, August 23, 2020
Americans view the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and the effectiveness of the government's response through a very partisan
Choice and competition in the insurance marketplace is not an effective alternative to single payer
By Brian J. Miller Robert E. Moffit
Health Affairs Blog, August 20, 2020
The renewed national health care debate represents a conflict of visions of how to
ACOs fail their math test
McKinsey & Company, August 19, 2020
This article is a collaboration by Nikhil R. Sahni, a partner in McKinsey’s Boston office; Rachel Groh, a consultant in
Crisis in health insurance coverage and its affordability
By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, and Gabriella N. Aboulafia
The Commonwealth Fund, August 19, 2020
The survey began on January 14, 2020 — just before
Bruce Bartlett on the strawman of socialism
The ideology that Republicans love to hate is woven through the fabric of the country.
By Bruce Bartlett
The New Republic, August 17, 2020
The essence of the
Tsung-Mei Cheng brings us lessons from Taiwan
By Tsung-Mei Cheng
New York Daily News, August 14, 2020
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was in Taiwan this week for what was the
Society of General Internal Medicine joins the cause
Society of General Internal Medicine recommends U.S. implement universal health coverage, a sign of the medical profession’s growing support for Medicare-for-All reform
Physicians for a National