By Maggie Mills
Common Dreams, July 11, 2020
A recent study by Yale epidemiologists found that Medicare-for-All would prevent 68,000 deaths a year. These 68,000 deaths are
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.
Walgreens and Walmart enter the fray
By Melissa Repko
CNBC, July 8, 2020
Walgreens Boots Alliance will soon have doctor offices inside of hundreds of its U.S. drugstores.
The pharmacy chain said Wednesday it
Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force fails to unify on Medicare for All
Achieving Universal, Affordable, Quality Health Care (Pages 28-37)
(Excerpts)
We are going to at last build the health care system the American people have always deserved: One
Adam Gaffney: Reinventing health planning
We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally planned according
Lown Institute: Hospitals and civic leadership
By Sharon Begley
STAT, July 7, 2020
You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at the top of a new
The pharmaceutical industry: Gouging perfected
The United States is the only developed nation unable to balance cost, efficacy and social good in setting prices.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
The New York Times, July
The erosion of public health
Kaiser Health News/Associated Press, July 1, 2020
Local and state public health departments across the country work to ensure that people in their communities have healthy
Obtaining consensus on competing health reform preferences
By Adrianna McIntyre, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Mary G. Findling, Eric C. Schneider
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, No. 5,
John Geyman: Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care
Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care
By John Geyman, M.D.
From the Preface
We have to raise, and answer, who is health care for - for
ACA has not and will not resolve key health care issues
By Sayeh Nikpay, India Pungarcher, Austin Frakt
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 45, No. 5, October 2020
Published online June 19, 2020
Abstract
Through the 2000s,
Private equity in the medical-industrial complex
By Isaac Arnsdorf
ProPublica, June 12, 2020
In 2017, TeamHealth, the nation’s largest staffing firm for ER doctors, sued a small insurance company in Texas over a
Resistance to admitting failure of alternative payment models
By Amol S. Navathe, M.D., Ph.D.; Connor W. Boyle, B.A.; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
JAMA, June 22, 2020
The US health care system requires major changes