Single Payer for New YorkThe New York Times, December 23, 2013To the Editor:Re “Under Health Law, Independent Practitioners in City Face Canceled Policies” (news article,
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.
Commodification harms not only our health care
Do bigger governments lead to happier people?An interview by Dylan MatthewsThe Washington Post, December 23, 2013Benjamin Radcliff is a professor of political science at the
Uwe Reindardt on the U.S. path to three-tiered health care
The Economics of Being Kinder and Gentler in Health CareBy Uwe E. ReinhardtThe New York Times, December 20, 2013In the late 1980s, about 35 million
Expanding eligibility for catastrophic plans
What if my individual health insurance plan is changing or being cancelled?HealthCare.gov, Accessed December 20, 2013If your insurance company cancels your plan, you have several
The Effect of Patient Cost Sharing on Utilization, Health, and Risk Protection
The Effect of Patient Cost Sharing on Utilization, Health, and Risk ProtectionBy Hitoshi ShigeokaNational Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 19726, December 2013AbstractAlthough this paper
Does your estate belong to Medicaid?
Estate Recovery and LiensMediciad.gov (CMS)State Medicaid programs must recover certain Medicaid benefits paid on behalf of a Medicaid enrollee. For individuals age 55 or older,
The solution to merger madness is not more ACOs
Hospital industry consolidation – Still more to come?By Leemore DafnyThe New England Journal of Medicine, December 11, 2013The first seven paragraphs of this essay present
U.S. ranks near bottom on efficiency of health care spending
U.S. ranks near bottom among industrialized nations in efficiency of health care spendingUCLA Fielding School of Public Health, December 12, 2013A new study by researchers
Alan Maynard on rationing in public and private health care systems
Health Care Rationing: Doing It Better in Public and Private Health Care SystemsBy Alan MaynardJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, December 2013AbstractPublic health care
Conclusive evidence that physicians are not leaving Medicare
Medicare Patients’ Access to Physicians: A Synthesis of the EvidenceBy Cristina Boccuti, Christina Swoope, Anthony Damico and Patricia NeumanKaiser Family Foundation, December 10, 2013Main findings:*
Insurers using high drug cost sharing to scare away patients with expensive chronic disorders
AIDS advocates say drug coverage in some marketplace plans is inadequateBy Ariana Eunjung ChaThe Washington Post, December 9, 2013The nation’s new health-care law says insurers
Bernie Sanders introduces S. 1782, The American Health Security Act of 2013
S. 1782, The American Health Security Act of 2013Senator Bernie SandersIntroduced in the Senate, December 9, 2013Summary of S. 1782, The American Health Security Act