Today CMS and the IRS released two sets of proposed rules which included the exemptions that will be allowed to avoid having to pay a
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Senate HELP hearing on primary care
30 Million New Patients and 11 Months to Go: Who Will Provide Their Primary Care?Subcommittee Hearing, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and PensionsUnited States Senate,
Senate HELP hearing on primary care
We have a crisis in primary care.
Bill Keller on P4P and single payer
Carrots for DoctorsBy Bill KellerThe New York Times, January 27, 2013Bill Keller, the former executive editor of The New York Times, explains why pay-for-performance (P4P)
Bill Keller on P4P and single payer
Bill Keller, the former executive editor of The New York Times, explains why pay-for-performance (P4P) is a false solution to the problems of high health
HCA hasn't changed
Judge says HCA broke spending promisesBy Diane StaffordThe Kansas City Star, January 24, 2013The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City has won a $162
HCA hasn't changed
Physicians for a National Health Program supports not only a much more efficient and equitable single payer financing system, we also support elimination of passive
The second managed care revolution
HMO-Like Plans May Be Poised To Make Comeback In Online Insurance MarketsBy Julie ApplebyKaiser Health News, January 22, 2013It's back to the future for insurers,
The second managed care revolution
So we didn't get single payer, but at least we got a bill that brought us an end to insurance company abuses, so they say.
Proposed Rule on Medicaid Premiums and Cost Sharing
A Proposed Rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFederal Register, January 22, 2013Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Programs, and Exchanges: Essential Health Benefits in
Proposed Rule on Medicaid Premiums and Cost Sharing
Why do patients go on the Medicaid program? Because they're dirt poor, that's why. To even bring up a discussion of premiums and cost sharing
Baucus/Hatch taxpayer gift to Amgen
Fiscal Footnote: Big Senate Gift to Drug MakerBy Eric Lipton and Kevin SackThe New York Times, January 19, 2013Just two weeks after pleading guilty in