Report Back from the 4th Annual Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) SummitI had the honor of delivering the opening address – entitled “Where
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.
Cost of PCSK9 Inhibitors, and the president’s Precision Medicine Initiative
In The Debate About Cost And Efficacy, PCSK9 Inhibitors May Be The Biggest Challenge YetBy William Shrank, Alan Lotvin, Surya Singh, and Troyen BrennanHealth Affairs
Bloomberg editors question out-of-pocket costs
Out of Pocket, Out of ControlBy The EditorsBloomberg View, February 16, 2015Obamacare's goal to expand access to health care has been only half a success:
Important resource: “A Five-Year Assessment of the Affordable Care Act”
A Five-Year Assessment of the Affordable Care ActBy John P. GeymanInternational Journal of Health Services, February 10, 2015AbstractIn this paper, John Geyman summarizes the content
Why do Canadians so strongly support their single payer system?
Why do Canadians so strongly support their single payer system?By Don McCanneFebruary 13, 2015This week the Forum Club of Sun City Palm Desert (a California
Exchange plans increasingly use abusive drug tier design
Exchange Benefit Designs Increasingly Place All Medications for Some Conditions on Specialty Drug TierBy Caroline F. PearsonAvalere, February 11, 2015New analysis from Avalere Health finds
Consumer-directed health plans reduce utilization of essential drugs
Patient Responses to Incentives in Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Evidence from PharmaceuticalsBy Peter J. Huckfeldt, Amelia Haviland Ateev, Mehrotra Zachary Wagner, and Neeraj SoodNational Bureau of
How far can we go with Sec. 1332 waivers?
Understanding the Affordable Care Act’s State Innovation (“1332”) WaiversBy Jessica Schubel and Sarah LueckCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 7, 2015“Forget about our gridlocked
Elisabeth Rosenthal’s “Insured, but Not Covered”
Insured, but Not CoveredBy Elisabeth RosenthalThe New York Times, February 7, 2015The Affordable Care Act has ushered in an era of complex new health insurance
Burr, Hatch, and Upton’s Obamacare Replacement Plan
Burr, Hatch, Upton Unveil Obamacare Replacement PlanPress Release from Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), February 5, 2015The Affordable Care Act has fallen far short of the
John Geyman’s timely book on ACA and single payer
How Obamacare Is Unsustainable: Why We Need a Single-Payer Solution for All AmericansBy John Geyman, M.D.Copernicus Healthcare, January, 2015As we all know, the intense debate
Use H.R. 676 to unify the reform movement
Doctors group hails reintroduction of Medicare-for-all billPhysicians for a National Health Program, February 4, 2015Single-payer health program would cover all 42 million uninsured, upgrade everyone’s