Associations between palliative chemotherapy and adult cancer patients’ end of life care and place of death: prospective cohort studyBy Alexi A Wright, Baohui Zhang, Nancy
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.
Cancer chemotherapy: Killing them not so softly
Associations between palliative chemotherapy and adult cancer patients’ end of life care and place of death: prospective cohort study
By Alexi A Wright, Baohui Zhang, Nancy
Venture capitalists in the pharmaceutical industry
The Calculus of CuresBy Robert Kocher, M.D., and Bryan Roberts, Ph.D.The New England Journal of Medicine, February 26, 2014One of the most serious defects of
Venture capitalists in the pharmaceutical industry
The Calculus of Cures
By Robert Kocher, M.D., and Bryan Roberts, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine, February 26, 2014
Bringing a drug from bench to bedside
Disruption in the financing of primary care
New Law’s Demands on Doctors Have Many Seeking a NetworkBy Abby GoodnoughThe New York Times, March 2, 2014Dr. Sven Jonsson, a primary care physician in
Disruption in the financing of primary care
New Law’s Demands on Doctors Have Many Seeking a Network
By Abby Goodnough
The New York Times, March 2, 2014
Dr. Sven Jonsson, a primary care physician in
Fallacy of global cost containment through “bundled payments”
Inpatient Hospital Prices Drive Spending Variation for Episodes of Care for Privately Insured PatientsBy Chapin White, James D. Reschovsky, Amelia M. BondNational Institute for Health
Fallacy of global cost containment through “bundled payments”
Inpatient Hospital Prices Drive Spending Variation for Episodes of Care for Privately Insured Patients
By Chapin White, James D. Reschovsky, Amelia M. Bond
National Institute for Health
Paean to the “empowered consumer:” Truthiness in health policy
Connected health and the rise of the patient-consumer: How to achieve better care at a lower cost? By William FristHealth Affairs, February 2014America’s health care delivery
Is the medical home a business model or a patient-service model?
Association Between Participation in a Multipayer Medical Home Intervention and Changes in Quality, Utilization, and Costs of CareBy Mark W. Friedberg, MD, MPP; Eric C.
Is the medical home a business model or a patient-service model?
Association Between Participation in a Multipayer Medical Home Intervention and Changes in Quality, Utilization, and Costs of Care
By Mark W. Friedberg, MD, MPP; Eric C.
New CMS quality data on ACOs
Medicare Data Show Wide Differences In ACOs’ Patient CareBy Jordan RauKaiser Health News, February 21, 2014Networks of doctors and hospitals set up under the Affordable