At least 360 Democratic delegates, mostly his supporters, have signed a pledge to oppose the Democratic platform unless it endorses single-payer.
By Holly Otterbein
POLITICO, July 27,
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.
Structural racism calls for more than another New Deal
Without having an honest conversation about how we got here, we will never be able to move on and heal.
By Susan Rogers, M.D.
Crain's Chicago Business,
Health savings accounts are often redundant
By Jeffrey T. Kullgren, MD, MS, MPH; Elizabeth Q. Cliff, PhD; Christopher Krenz, BA; Brady T. West, PhD; Helen Levy, PhD; Mark Fendrick, MD; Angela
Near term political prospects for Medicare for All
By Amanda Terkel and Tara Golshan
HuffPost, July 22, 2020
For the first time, the Democratic Party platform mentions “Medicare for All,” according to a draft version
Persuading opponents to support Medicare for All
By Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Derek J. Koehler, and Jonathan A. Fugelsang
PsyArXiv, Preprint, Last edited June 24, 2020
Abstract
Does one’s stance toward evidence evaluation and
What will Medicare for All really cost?
By Gordon Mosser
SSRN, May 12, 2020
Abstract
In the US, 30 million people have no health insurance, and the per capita cost of health care is far
Hacker and Pierson: ‘Let Them Eat Tweets’
By Jacob S. Hacker (Yale University), Paul Pierson (University of California, Berkeley)
Introduction
This is not a book about Donald Trump.
Instead, it is about an immense shift
John Lewis
59 years ago today I was released from Parchman Farm Penitentiary after being arrested in Jackson, MS for using a so-called "white" restroom during the
Perceived discrimination under Medicaid
By Héctor E. Alcalá, Amanda E. Ng, Sujoy Gayen, and Alexander N. Ortega
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, July 2020
Abstract
Introduction: Discrimination can
BENES Act would reduce complexity of Medicare Part B enrollment but ignore Parts A, C, D, and Medigap
By Susan Jaffe
MedPage Today, July 15, 2020
A House committee unanimously approved legislation Wednesday that would make changes for the first time in 50 years to
High- and low-income health gap in U.S. compared to England
By HwaJung Choi, Ph.D.; Andrew Steptoe, D.Sc.; Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.H.; Philippa Clarke, Ph.D.; Robert F. Schoeni, Ph.D.; Stephen Jivraj, Ph.D.; Tsai-Chin Cho, M.Sc.; Kenneth
Our current system has allowed the greatest health insurance enrollment losses in history
Families USA, July 2020
Results in Brief
Because of job losses between February and May of this year, 5.4 million laid-off workers became uninsured.
These recent