Committee on Energy and Commerce, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.
Subcommittee on Health, Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Chair Diana DeGette
U.S. House
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.
Rationale of the ‘Make Billionaires Pay Act’: It’s good for our health
By Bernie Sanders
The Guardian, August 11, 2020
We are in the middle of an extraordinary moment in American history: a public health crisis, the worst economic
Financial integration is not associated with better quality
By Elliott S. Fisher, Stephen M. Shortell, A. James O’Malley, Taressa K. Fraze, Andrew Wood, Marisha Palm, Carrie H. Colla, Meredith B. Rosenthal, Hector P.
John Geyman explains the ‘new normal’ we urgently need in health care
Foundation of a ‘New Normal’ In U.S. Health Care
By John Geyman, M.D.
Note to the Reader: In his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, written for the people
WARNING: Elliott Fisher wants to switch from ACOs to PHOs
By The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Medical Xpress, August 5, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the numerous weaknesses in the U.S. healthcare system. Millions
The health insurers designed our financing system, and it works for them
By Reed Abelson
The New York Times, August 5, 2020
Some of the largest companies, including Anthem, Humana and UnitedHealth Group, are reporting second-quarter earnings that are
Life expectancy is longer in states with more liberal policies
By Jennifer Karas Montez, Jason Beckfield, Julene Kemp Cooney, Jacob M. Grumbach, Mark D. Hayward, Huseyin Zeyd Koytak, Steven H. Woolf, Anna Zajacova
The Milbank Quarterly,
CMS plans to cut Medicare payments by 10.6%
CMS.gov, August 3, 2020
On August 3, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that announces and solicits public comments
Gaining freedom by escaping the unfreedom of the workplace
University of Chicago Press Journals, American Association for the Advancement of Science EurekAlert!, July 31, 2020
According to recent Gallup polls, socialism is now more popular
Stuart Butler has another proposal for us
By Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.
JAMA Health Forum, July 30, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is forcing a much-needed questioning of the US health system.
Private insurers offload financial risk to the providers
By Toren L. Fronsdal, Jay Bhattacharya, Suzanne Tamang
National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020
Abstract
We study a unique all-payer data set spanning 38 states to examine
Tweaking value-based health care delays real reform
The Value in Health Care Act aims to increase APM participation by extending incentives and correcting arbitrary qualification standards under MACRA and the Medicare Shared