This Is How the New GOP Senate Will Try to Dismantle ObamacareBy Jonathan CohnNew Republic, November 4, 2014Most Republicans know that they can’t repeal Obamacare
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.
Fox: Patients who can’t use their exchange plans
Some ObamaCare patients with high deductibles turning to community care centersBy Jim AngleFox News, November 4, 2014When ObamaCare patients learn their deductible is so high
Insurance shopping without health insurance literacy
A Little Knowledge Is a Risky Thing: Wide Gap in What People Think They Know About Health Insurance and What They Actually KnowBy Kathryn A.
Medicare Advantage plans are lying about their networks
The Accuracy of Dermatology Network Physician Directories Posted by Medicare Advantage Health Plans in an Era of Narrow NetworksBy Jack S. Resneck Jr, MD; Aaron
One way Medicare Advantage plans game risk scores
Another whistleblower suit alleges Medicare Advantage fraudBy Fred SchulteThe Center for Public Integrity, October 29, 2014A new whistleblower lawsuit accuses a California health care firm
Vermont faces rough road to single payer
Correction: State No Longer Looking to Administer MedicareBy Anne GallowayVTDigger, October 26, 2014Two recent stories about the relationship between Medicare and Green Mountain Care, the
Female workforce pays more for health benefits
Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActU.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesIt's shameful. Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) specifically prohibits
Improving trust in the profession
Public Trust in Physicians — U.S. Medicine in International PerspectiveBy Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., John M. Benson, M.A., and Joachim O. Hero, M.P.H.The New England
Administrative burden on U.S. physicians
Administrative Work Consumes One-Sixth of U.S. Physicians' Working Hours and Lowers Their Career SatisfactionBy Steffie Woolhandler and David U. HimmelsteinInternational Journal of Health Services, Volume
Important: Uwe Reinhardt on health care price transparency and economic theory
Health Care Price Transparency and Economic TheoryBy Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhDJAMA, October 22/29, 2014In a JAMA editorial commenting on an article about price transparency and
Pharmacy benefit managers moving to narrow networks?
CVS Smoke-Free Pharmacy Benefit Excludes Tobacco-Selling RivalsBy Bruce JapsenForbes, October 20, 2014CVS Health (CVS) confirmed its Caremark pharmacy benefit management subsidiary would sell a smoke-free
Covered California demonstrates the administrative complexity in renewing exchange plans
California spends $13.4 million to fix Obamacare service woesBy Chad TerhuneLos Angeles Times, October 17, 2014California's health insurance exchange hired two outside firms for $13.4