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
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.
President Obama’s consumer-directed recommendations for Medicare
Fiscal Year 2016 Budget of the U.S. GovernmentOffice of Management and BudgetReducing Cost Growth by Encouraging Beneficiaries to Seek High-Value Services.Using the rhetoric of encouraging
Blue Cross of California sifts markets
Insurance Choices Dwindle In Rural California As Blue Shield Pulls BackBy Pauline Bartolone, Capital Public RadioKaiser Health News, January 30, 2015Blue Shield of California used
Pew: The Precarious State of Family Balance Sheets
The Precarious State of Family Balance SheetsThe Pew Charitable Trusts, January 29, 2015Far too many American families simply do not have the income or assets
A Canadian physician responds to Gov. Pence’s Medicaid program
Yesterday’s Quote of the Day (“Government supports rotten teeth for patients in poverty”) discussed the Medicaid waivers obtained by Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Today’s post
Government supports rotten teeth for patients in poverty
Indiana Will Allow Entry to Medicaid for a PriceBy Abby GoodnoughThe New York Times, January 27, 2015After a lengthy back-and-forth, the Obama administration has agreed
HHS creating policy out of rhetoric devoid of science
Setting Value-Based Payment Goals — HHS Efforts to Improve U.S. Health CareBy Sylvia M. Burwell, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesThe New England Journal
Prescribing an epiphany for Ron Pollack and Henry Aaron
Costs derail Vermont’s dream of a single-payer health planBy Jay FitzgeraldThe Boston Globe, January 25, 2015For decades, liberal activists yearned for a European-style, single-payer health
Gallup – Health care remains a top financial burden for American families
Americans See Healthcare, Low Wages as Top Financial ProblemsBy Art SwiftGallup, January 21, 2015Healthcare costs and lack of money or low wages rank as the
New poll on single payer and a Medicare buy-in
Poll of Likely 2016 VotersProgressive Change Institute, Conducted by GBA Strategies, January 9-15, 2015SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE VIA MEDICARE“Enact a national health plan in which all
The April surprise for not being insured
Tax Preparers Brace To Be Bearers Of Bad Health Law NewsBy April Dembosky, KQED and Jeff Cohen, WNPRKaiser Health News, January 21, 2015IRS Commissioner John
Insurers slam patients with underwriting cycle
In Colorado, Disparity in Health Plan Prices Underscores Ambitions, and Limits, of Affordable Care ActBy Reed Abelson and Agustin ArmendarizThe New York Times, January 19,