Raising Medicare Premiums for Higher-Income Beneficiaries: Assessing the Implications
By Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman, Gretchen Jacobson, and Karen E. Smith
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2014
As policymakers consider
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.
Bare-bones plans still with us
Bare-Bones Health Plans Survive Through Quirk in LawBy Theo FrancisThe Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2014The health-care overhaul was supposed to eliminate insurance plans that
Bare-bones plans still with us
Bare-Bones Health Plans Survive Through Quirk in Law
By Theo Francis
The Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2014
The health-care overhaul was supposed to eliminate insurance plans that
The SGR fix is… well, we don’t know
Medicare Physician Payment Reform: Will 2014 Be the Fix for SGR?By Mark McClellan, MD, PhD; Kavita Patel, MD, MS; Darshak Sanghavi, MDJAMA, January 13, 2014Every
The SGR fix is… well, we don’t know
Medicare Physician Payment Reform: Will 2014 Be the Fix for SGR?
By Mark McClellan, MD, PhD; Kavita Patel, MD, MS; Darshak Sanghavi, MD
JAMA, January 13, 2014
Every
Timothy Jost reviews what four years have brought us
Implementing Health Reform: Four Years LaterBy Timothy S. JostHealth Affairs, January 2014Despite enormous potential, the Affordable Care Act has been plagued by controversy and confusion
Timothy Jost reviews what four years have brought us
Implementing Health Reform: Four Years Later
By Timothy S. Jost
Health Affairs, January 2014
Despite enormous potential, the Affordable Care Act has been plagued by controversy and confusion
Financial burden on Medicare households
Health Care on a Budget: The Financial Burden of Health Spending by Medicare HouseholdsBy Juliette Cubanski, Christina Swoope, Anthony Damico and Tricia NeumanKaiser Family Foundation,
Financial burden on Medicare households
Health Care on a Budget: The Financial Burden of Health Spending by Medicare Households
By Juliette Cubanski, Christina Swoope, Anthony Damico and Tricia Neuman
Kaiser Family Foundation,
Maryland moving toward global budgets for hospitals
Maryland All-Payer Model to Deliver Better Care and Lower CostsCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services, January 10, 2014On January 10, 2014, the Centers for Medicare
Maryland moving toward global budgets for hospitals
Maryland All-Payer Model to Deliver Better Care and Lower Costs
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, January 10, 2014
On January 10, 2014, the Centers for Medicare
The Oregon Medicaid ED “experiment” and the overuse myth
Emergency visits seen increasing with health lawBy Sabrina TaverniseThe New York Times, January 2, 2014Supporters of President Obama’s health care law had predicted that expanding