By John E. McDonough
The Milbank Quarterly, June 24, 2020
For some years I’ve pondered a Commonwealth Fund chart showing the growth in gross domestic product (GDP)
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.
Americans want the option of a government-regulated and -subsidized health plan
Commonwealth Fund Health Care Poll: COVID-19, May–June 2020
By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, Gabriella N. Aboulafia, Erin Czyzewicz, Christian H. Kline, Robyn Rapoport, and
Hannity’s downplaying of COVID-19 threat increased deaths
By Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher P. Roth, David H. Yanagizawa-Drott
National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2020
Abstract
We study the effects of COVID-19 coverage early in
Let’s take money transactions out of the health care delivery setting
By Douglas Barthold, Anirban Basu
Health Affairs Blog, June 18, 2020
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) covered more than 30 percent of enrollees in employer-sponsored plans in the
Himmelstein and Himmelstein on capital investments and socioeconomic and racial inequities
By Gracie Himmelstein, M.A., Kathryn EW Himmelstein, M.S.Ed., M.D.
International Journal of Health Services, In Press (Posted June 18, 2020)
Abstract
Racial inequities in health outcomes are widely
What will be the legacy of Barbara Starfield?
By James M. Perrin
The Milbank Quarterly, June 2020
Barbara Starfield built the field of primary care research and galvanized research and policy documenting the central importance
MedPAC recognizes system is not working but wants to go further down same path
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), June 2020
As part of its mandate from the Congress, each June the Commission reports on refinements to Medicare payment systems
V. Fuchs: We may now have the dynamic for political change in health reform
By Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.
JAMA, June 12, 2020
To simply return to the prepandemic health care system during a presidential election year would be a mistake.
COVID-19 crisis comes with financial toxicity
By Adam W. Gaffney MD, MPH, Laura Hawks MD, David H. Bor MD, Steffie Woolhandler MD, MPH, David U. Himmelstein MD & Danny McCormick MD
Journal
Diagnosing and treating systemic racism
By Michele K. Evans, M.D., Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D., Debra Malina, Ph.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine,
COVID-19 and Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities
By Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler
International Journal of Health Services, June 9, 2020
Abstract
While the COVID-19 pandemic presents every nation with challenges, the United
Health policy trade-offs: keep good, dump bad
By Linda J. Blumberg
Urban Institute, June 2020
Exploring the Five Core Questions Necessary to Evaluate the Trade-Offs Inherent in a Health Reform Proposal
Evaluating the trade-offs inherent