It is no surprise that in California - a state that can review insurance premium increases but has no power to control them - private
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.
Steven Brill explains his "Bitter Pill"
Coming up with “A Bitter Pill”By Steven BrillReuters, March 5, 2013For the past 10 days I’ve been interviewed on various television and radio shows about
Steven Brill explains his "Bitter Pill"
These excepts from Steven Brill's explanation of how he came to write "Bitter Pill," his TIME special report on exorbitant prices and profits in U.S.
Medicare Part D drug program wide open to conflicts of interest
Gaps in Oversight of Conflicts of Interest in Medicare Prescription Drug DecisionsOffice of Inspector GeneralDepartment of Health and Human Services, March 2013Objectives1. To assess sponsors’
Medicare Part D drug program wide open to conflicts of interest
When the conservatives enacted the Part D drug program for Medicare, they designed it as a private sector solution, using private insurer sponsors and private
GAO finds CMS negligent in risk adjustment for Medicare Advantage plans
Medicare Advantage: Substantial Excess Payments Underscore Need for CMS to Improve Accuracy of Risk Score AdjustmentsUnited States Government Accountability Office (GAO)Report to Congressional Requesters, January
GAO finds CMS negligent in risk adjustment for Medicare Advantage plans
The private Medicare Advantage plans, offered as an option to traditional Medicare, have been cheating taxpayers by selectively enrolling healthier, lower-cost patients, though being paid
HHS approves private plans for Arkansas Medicaid patients
Arkansas’s unusual plan to expand MedicaidBy Sarah KliffThe Washington Post, February 28, 2013The Medicaid expansion has emboldened Republican governors to strike all sorts of deals
HHS approves private plans for Arkansas Medicaid patients
Did I get this right? Health and Human Services has granted Arkansas a waiver to allow Medicaid dollars to be used to purchase private health
Census report on employment-based health insurance
Employment-Based Health Insurance: 2010By Hubert Janicki United States Census Bureau, February 2012 • The likelihood of employment-based coverage declined from 64.4 percent (± 0.5) in 1997
Woolhandler, Himmelstein and Relman on the right path for Medicare
Sunday Dialogue: The Future of MedicareThe New York Times, February 23, 2013Readers weigh in on problems with the health care program:Canada’s Medicare program — phased
Woolhandler, Himmelstein and Relman on the right path for Medicare
At a time when Congress and the Obama administration are contemplating a reduction in Medicare spending as a means of paring down our national budget