Public Meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (Medpac)The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (Medpac) has set an impossible task for itself.
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.
Colin Powell calls for a universal, single payer system
Gen. Colin Powell calls for universal health care in the U.S.By Valerie BaumanPuget Sound Business Journal, December 5, 2013Former Secretary of State and longtime Republican
Cleveland Clinic’s Steven Nissen supports single payer
10 Questions: Steven Nissen, MDBy Todd NealeMedPage Today, December 5, 2013What's the biggest barrier to practicing medicine today? That's just the first of 10 questions
Wall Street’s view of narrow networks
HSC's 18th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington ConferenceCenter for Studying Health System Change, November 21, 2013From the conference transcript:If insurers were marketing products designed
Who wins under Obamacare?
Nobody Should Get Rich Off ObamacareBy Evan SoltasBloomberg View, December 3, 2013For an industry that's supposed to be burdened by the launch of Obamacare, the
Bone Marrow as a commodity
Why It’s OK to Pay Bone-Marrow DonorsBy Sally SatelBloomberg View, December 1, 2013Locating a marrow donor is often a needle-in-a-haystack affair. The odds that two
Grading a Physician's Value — The Misapplication of Performance Measurement
Grading a Physician's Value — The Misapplication of Performance MeasurementBy Robert A. Berenson, M.D., and Deborah R. Kaye, M.D.The New England Journal of Medicine, November
Major physician organizations concerned about impaired access through exchange plans
Doctors: New Health Care Plans Raise Red FlagsBy Louise RadnofskyThe Wall Street Journal, November 26, 2013Physicians groups told Obama administration officials Tuesday that they are
2013 OECD Indicators and the economic crisis
Health at a Glance 2013 - OECD IndicatorsOECD, November 21, 2013The 2013 edition of OECD’s “Health at a Glance,” in text, graphs and tables, provides
Can we talk about single payer? (Flowers, Baker & Folbre)
Obamacare Debate: Flowers vs. BakerThe Real News, October 1, 2013JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: With us to discuss the Affordable Care Act are Dean Baker and
Kip Sullivan on “If you like your plan…”
Too little, too late on “You can keep it”By Trudy LiebermanColumbia Journalism Review, October 31, 2013I have a question for all the reporters busy asking
Why we shouldn't be celebrating the slowdown in health care spending
New Report from the Council of Economic Advisers: The Recent Slowdown in Health Care Cost Growth and the Role of the Affordable Care ActBy Jason