March 25, 2021
From the Executive Summary
Our organizations represent millions of patients and consumers across the country who live with serious, acute and chronic health conditions.
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.
Private equity piles on debt to pull cash from health firms
By Sabrina Willmer
Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2021
Healthcare companies are taking on more debt to pay dividends to their private equity owners, just a year
Administration and Congress are wasting tax funds on private insurance
By Noam N. Levey
Kaiser Health News, March 24, 2021
When Democrats pushed through a two-year expansion of the Affordable Care Act in the covid-relief bill this
Drug pricing is a life and death issue
By Joyce Frieden
MedPage Today, March 23, 2021
"All over this country, the American people are asking a simple question: How many people need to die before
Complexities and deficiencies of the temporary health system tweaks
By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff
The New York Times, March 22, 2021
The new stimulus bill made tens of millions of Americans eligible for new health
Private equity is taking over
By Jane M. Zhu, M.D., M.P.P., M.S.H.P., and Daniel Polsky, Ph.D., M.P.P.
The New England Journal of Medicine, March 18, 2021
The ecosystem of physician-owned medical practices
Families USA/Hart poll shows that voters want reform NOW!
Families USA, March 17, 2021
The realities of the COVID-19 pandemic have made health and health care reform front burner issues for all of us, no
Policy community hung up on ‘volume to value’
By Rachel M. Werner, M.D., Ph.D., Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Hoangmai H. Pham, M.D., M.P.H., Amol S. Navathe, M.D., Ph.D.
Penn, Leonard Davis Institute of Health
ACP’s policy paper on ethics and professionalism
By Matthew DeCamp, M.D., Ph.D., Lois Snyder Sulmasy, J.D., for the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee
Annals of Internal Medicine, March
Fraud is rampant in Medicare Advantage
By David Engel, J.D., Gary Azorsky, J.D., Jeanne Markey, J.D., and Ray Sarola, J.D.
MedPage Today, March 13, 2021
Can a patient have and not have diabetes
Ralph Nader calls for an end to the corporate takeover of Medicare
Where is the outcry among Democratic politicians to reverse completely the corporate takeover of Medicare?
By Ralph Nader
Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic
Why are we celebrating the pending demise of Medicare for All?
We need a system that is truly universal—everybody in, nobody out. Biden's proposal will add more participants to the current program, but still leave millions