The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care: An International PerspectiveBy Mark Stabile (University of Toronto) and Sarah Thomson (London School of Economics and
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.
Is tailoring enrollment strategies to match dynamics of uninsured a solution?
Understanding State Variation In Health Insurance Dynamics Can Help Tailor Enrollment Strategies For ACA ExpansionBy John A. Graves and Katherine SwartzHealth Affairs, September 2013 (online)AbstractThis
Peter Morici on an American National Health Service
First Obamacare, Then a Single Payer SystemBy Peter MoriciBreitbart, September 27, 2013Republicans must live with Obamacare. They have few prospects for electing 60 senators needed
Where are our professional boundaries?
Crossing Boundaries—Violation or Obligation?By Gordon D. Schiff, MDJAMA, September 25, 2013For my home office that I use for my health reform advocacy work, I had
Canadian businessmen perplexed by U.S. health care
Canadians don’t understand Ted Cruz’s health care battle By Matt Miller The Washington Post, September 25, 2013Businessmen in the United States need to listen to their
Benefits consulting firms move in for their cut of the action
Analysis: Benefit firms create tremors for insurers in U.S. healthcare shakeupBy Caroline Humer and Lewis KrauskopfReuters, September 20, 2013American companies are sending shockwaves through the
New York Times exposes the injustices of private insurers' narrow networks
Lower Health Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer ChoicesBy Robert PearThe New York Times, September 22, 2013Federal officials often say that health insurance
Health care coverage for the homeless
Medicaid Expansion: Chronically Homeless Adults Will Need Targeted Enrollment And Access To A Broad Range Of ServicesBy Jack Tsai, Robert A. Rosenheck, Dennis P. Culhane
CMS Office of the Actuary on growth in health expenditures
National Health Expenditure Projections, 2012–22: Slow Growth Until Coverage Expands And Economy ImprovesBy Gigi A. Cuckler and colleagues in the Office of the Actuary at
Gaps in public understanding of Medicare
The Public and the Conflict over Future Medicare SpendingBy Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., and John M. Benson, M.A.The New England Journal of Medicine, September 12,
New Census data on the uninsured – still 48 million
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2012By Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica C. SmithUnited States Census Bureau, September 2013Highlights• In
Exchange plans have sharply limited networks
Insurers limiting doctors, hospitals in health insurance marketBy Chad TerhuneLos Angeles Times, September 14, 2013The doctor can't see you now.To hold down premiums, major insurers