Why Section 1332 Could Solve the Obamacare ImpasseBy Stuart Butler, PhDThe JAMA Forum, April 28, 2015Stuart Butler’s name may be familiar to you as he
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.
Pharmaceutical firms contribute to wealth inequity
Pharmaceutical Companies Buy Rivals’ Drugs, Then Jack Up the PricesBy Jonathan D. Rockoff and Ed SilvermanThe Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2015On Feb. 10, Valeant
John McDonough on Vermont’s single payer lesson
The Demise of Vermont's Single-Payer PlanBy John E. McDonough, Dr.P.H., M.P.A.The New England Journal of Medicine, April 23, 2015On December 17, 2014, Vermont Governor Peter
Are we seeing the end of low priced generics?
Teva Offers to Buy Mylan in $40.1B Cash-and-Stock DealBy Linda A. Johnson, APABC News, April 21, 2015Generic drug giant Teva formally offered to buy fellow
Why are the elderly reluctant to support health care for all?
Obamacare, Hands Off My MedicareBy Thomas B. EdsallThe New York Times, April 22, 2015A number of factors underpin the anti-redistributionist shift in public opinion that
Price gouging by drug manufacturers
State questions rise in overdose drug priceBy Brian MacQuarrieThe Boston Globe, April 20, 2015Attorney General Maura Healey is demanding that companies selling naloxone in Massachusetts
Do Americans believe that health care is a right?
Has Obamacare Turned Voters Against Sharing the Wealth?By Thomas B. EdsallThe New York Times, April 15, 2015With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, the
Drew Altman on public versus private control of spending
Public vs. Private Health Insurance on Controlling SpendingBy Drew AltmanThe Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2015One of the primary purposes of the Affordable Care Act
The lesson of a decade of health information technology mismanagement
Report on Health Information BlockingThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)Department of Health and Human Services, April 2015Some say that my
Florida and Texas should be ashamed, but what about New York and California?
Health Care Coverage and Access in the Nation's Four Largest StatesBy Petra W. Rasmussen, Sara R. Collins, Michelle M. Doty, Sophie BeutelThe Commonwealth Fund, April
John Geyman: Why the private health insurance industry has to go
Why the Private Health Insurance Industry Has to GoBy John Geyman, MDPNHP Blog, April 8, 2015Those supporting further implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Ted Marmor’s urgent message on the pending ‘SGR fix’
Medicare fix needs fixingBy Theodore R. Marmorphilly.com, April 13, 2015In recent weeks, reform legislation that proposes to change how Medicare pays physicians drew much attention.