eHealth Data: Premiums 47% Higher for Individual Health Insurance Plans with Comprehensive Health BenefitseHealthInsuranceMarch 18, 2013Today eHealth, Inc., parent company of eHealthInsurance.com, America’s first 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.
What "forgiveness formula" would be appropriate for medical debt?
Forgiveness FormulasBy Casey B. Mulligan, Economics Professor, University of ChicagoThe New York Times, March 20, 2013In an ideal world, collecting debts would be as simple
The cost of failing to use government price negotiation for drugs
State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug BenefitBy Dean Baker and Nicole WooCenter for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), March 2013Those who have followed
A disaster in the making – defined contribution for employer plans
To Save, Workers Take On Health-Cost RiskBy Anna Wilde MathewsThe Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2013Last fall, two big employers embarked on a radical new
Steven Brill on using single payer to "clean up the system"
Experts debate all-payer setups vs. Medicare for allBy Brett NormanPolitico, March 14, 2013Health care prices are too damn high.That’s the punch line to the provocative
Don't look for workplace wellness programs to produce significant cost savings
A Hospital System’s Wellness Program Linked To Health Plan Enrollment Cut Hospitalizations But Not Overall CostsBy Gautam Gowrisankaran, Karen Norberg, Steven Kymes, Michael E. Chernew,
Analysis of Pennsylvania's single payer proposal
The Pennsylvania Health Care Plan: Impact and ImplementationBy Gerald Friedman, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts – Amherst March 5, 2013Executive SummaryAnother single payer
Would busting up our consolidated health care market lower prices?
No Competition: The Price Of A Highly Concentrated Health Care MarketBy Diane ArcherHealth Affairs Blog, March 6, 2013The increase in anti-competitive consolidation of hospitals and
Would busting up our consolidated health care market lower prices?
The increase in anti-competitive consolidation of hospitals and physician groups is thought to be contributing to our high health care spending, especially since private insurers
Only 2% of individual plans meet "essential health benefit" requirements
Almost No Existing Health Plans Meet New ACA Essential Health Benefit StandardsBy Kev ColemanHealthPocket, March 7, 2013Given that health insurance plans will have to meet
Only 2% of individual plans meet "essential health benefit" requirements
One of the problems that needed to be addressed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the fact that health plans in the individual market
Private insurers continue with unreasonable premium increases
Blue Shield and Aetna to raise healthcare rates over state objectionsBy Chad TerhuneLos Angeles Times, March 6, 2013Despite objections from regulators, health insurers Blue Shield