How Much Is Enough? Out-of-Pocket Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries: A ChartbookBy Julliette Cubanski, Christina Swoope, Anthony Damico and Tricia NeumanKaiser Family Foundation, July 21, 2014This
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.
A. W. Gaffney: “Malinsurance” may drive reform
Beyond Obamacare: Universalism and Health Care in the Twenty-first CenturyBy A. W. GaffneyNew Politics, Summer 2014As A. W. Gaffney points out in this article, underinsurance
ACA and racial and ethnic disparities
Barriers to Care in an Ethnically Diverse Publicly Insured Population: Is Health Care Reform Enough?By Call, Kathleen T. PhD; McAlpine, Donna D. PhD; Garcia, Carolyn
Hobby Lobby unravels one more thread of our inequitable quilt
Money, Sex, and Religion — The Supreme Court's ACA SequelBy George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., Theodore W. Ruger, J.D., and Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., M.S.L.The
Will Medicaid push us into a single payer system?
Fewer Doctors Enrolled in Low-Income Insurance Program Despite Surge in PatientsBy Hannah GuzikCalifornia Health Report, July 14, 2014Nearly 25 percent fewer physicians were signed up
More on a business case for universal health care
A Business Case for Universal Healthcare: Improving Economic Growth and Reducing Unemployment by Providing Access for AllBy David Sterret, Ashley Bender, David PalmerAmerican University, Health
The meme of interdependency of access, quality and cost
Why Improving Access to Health Care Does Not Save MoneyBy Aaron E. CarrollThe New York Times, July 14, 2014One of the most important facts about
Urgent care centers – capitalism in action
Race Is On to Profit From Rise of Urgent CareBy Julie CreswellThe New York Times, July 9, 2014NORWALK, Conn. — For more than eight hours
Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO) is an irreparably flawed concept
Anthem Blue Cross faces another suit over Obamacare doctor networksBy Chad TerhuneLos Angeles Times, July 9, 2014Amid growing scrutiny statewide, insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross
Hospitals go where the money is
Inadequate State, Federal Payment Rates Forcing Hospital Closure, Officials SayBy David GoreCalifornia Healthline, July 5, 2014Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, about 10 miles north
OECD compares U.S. with other high-spending countries
Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countriesBy Luca Lorenzoni MSc, Annalisa Belloni MSc, Franco Sassi PhDThe Lancet, July 1,
OECD compares U.S. with other high-spending countries
Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countries
By Luca Lorenzoni MSc, Annalisa Belloni MSc, Franco Sassi PhD
The Lancet, July 1,