High Cancer Drug Prices in the United States: Reasons and Proposed Solutions
By Hagop Kantarjian, MD, David Steensma, MD, Judit Rius Sanjuan, Adam Elshaug, MPH, PhD
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.
Price competition in establishing provider networks – a very weak tool
More Insured, but the Choices Are NarrowingBy Reed AbelsonThe New York Times, May 12, 2014In the midst of all the turmoil in health care these
Price competition in establishing provider networks – a very weak tool
More Insured, but the Choices Are Narrowing
By Reed Abelson
The New York Times, May 12, 2014
In the midst of all the turmoil in health care these
Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending
Vertical Integration: Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And SpendingBy Laurence C. Baker, M. Kate Bundorf and Daniel P. KesslerHealth Affairs,
Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending
Vertical Integration: Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending
By Laurence C. Baker, M. Kate Bundorf and Daniel P. Kessler
Health Affairs,
Should we pay for screening tests?
The Problem With Free Health CareBy H. Gilbert WelchThe New York Times, April 30, 2014The Affordable Care Act does have its flaws. Here’s a big
Should we pay for screening tests?
The Problem With Free Health Care
By H. Gilbert Welch
The New York Times, April 30, 2014
The Affordable Care Act does have its flaws. Here’s a big
Should hospitals become the insurers?
Hospitals plot the end of insurance companiesBy Rob GarverThe Fiscal Times, March 27, 2014At The Atlantic's Health Care Forum in Washington on Thursday [March 27],
Insurance works, but not for the 36,000 who will die
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform: A Quasi-experimental StudyBy Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD; Sharon K. Long, PhD; and Katherine Baicker, PhDAnnals of
Insurance works, but not for the 36,000 who will die
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform: A Quasi-experimental Study
By Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD; Sharon K. Long, PhD; and Katherine Baicker, PhD
Annals of
Embracing Fee-For-Non-Service – Again!
Report of The National Commission on Physician Payment ReformSociety of General Internal Medicine, March 2013Regarding controlling health care spending, the meme of this decade seems
Is The Commonwealth Fund serious about searching for disruptive breakthroughs?
Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care
By Anne-Marie J. Audet, M.D, M.Sc., S.M.
The Commonwealth Fund, May 5, 2014
It is well documented that health care