This Cancer Doctor Is Leading the Attack on Astronomical Drug PricesBy Robert Langreth and Cynthia KoonsBloomberg Business, June 1, 2015As the one-year cost of cancer
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.
2015 Milliman Medical Index
2015 Milliman Medical IndexMilliman, May 2015In 2015, the cost of healthcare for a typical American family of four covered by an average employer-sponsored preferred provider
Is Blue Cross Blue Shield an illegal cartel?
Antitrust Lawsuits Target Blue Cross and Blue ShieldBy Anna Wilde MathewsThe Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2015Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurers cover about
New York Assembly passes the New York Health Act
Assembly passes universal health care billBy Dan Goldberg Capital New York, May 27, 2015The state Assembly on Wednesday voted for a single-payer health bill, the first
The bureaucratic waste of ACA quantified
The Post-Launch Problem: The Affordable Care Act’s Persistently High Administrative CostsBy David Himmelstein and Steffie WoolhandlerHealth Affairs Blog, May 27, 2015Although there are innumerable major
Joshua Freeman’s “Health, Medicine and Justice”
Health, Medicine and Justice: Designing a Fair and Equitable Healthcare SystemBy Joshua Freeman, M.D.I hope that this book complements the others (by Donohoe, Geyman, Young,
Atul Gawande and the overutilization narrative
Overkill: An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What can we do about it?By Atul GawandeThe New Yorker, May 11,
The harm done by the overutilization narrative
Overutilization, OverutilizedBy Deborah Levine and Jessica MulliganJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, April 2015AbstractYesterday's Quote of the Day message on the prevalence of underinsurance
Rising deductibles will make underinsurance worse
The Problem of Underinsurance and How Rising Deductibles Will Make It WorseBy Sara R. Collins, Petra W. Rasmussen, Sophie Beutel, Michelle M. DotyThe Commonwealth Fund,
BCBS warns of higher premiums for 2016
Health Plans Poised to Ask for Higher Premiums for 2016, Blue Cross Executive WarnsBy Sara HansardBloomberg BNA, Health Care Blog, May 14, 2015Look for health
PwC: Billing and payment for a “New Health Economy”
Money matters: Billing and payment for a New Health EconomyPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Health Research Institute, May 2015At a glanceThe nation’s healthcare billing and payment system is
Impact of ACA on employers and their employees
2015 Employer-Sponsored Health Care: ACA’s ImpactInternational Foundation of Employee Benefit PlansOn March 26, 2015, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans deployed its sixth survey