By Barbara Caress
The New School, Center for New York City Affairs, Urban Matters, April 29, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the underfinanced hospitals serving thousands
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.
Our safety net is a sieve with large rents
By Marianne Bitler, Hilary Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Milbank Quarterly, April 30, 2020
Over the past two months, the United States has seen a historic increase in
Americans agree that it is the government’s responsibility to provide health care for all
Fordham University, April 29, 2020
Despite apparent gaps in the United States’ healthcare system during the coronavirus outbreak, Americans are generally satisfied with the healthcare system’s
‘Alliance to Fight for Health Care’ plans to defeat Medicare for All
By Susannah Luthi
POLITICO, April 28, 2020
Big businesses and powerful Democrats are aligning around a proposal to bail out employer health plans in the wake of
Two-thirds of voters support providing Medicare to every American
By Gabriela Schulte
The Hill, April 24, 2020
Q: Would you support or oppose providing Medicare to every American?
69% - Net support
37% - Strongly support
U.S. will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch
By Ed Silverman
STAT, April 24, 2020
Led by the World Health Organization, a long list of countries, industry groups, and nongovernmental organizations committed to joining a
Austerity and the Americanization of health care was Italy’s problem
The Americanization of Italian health care plays a part in the country’s disastrous coronavirus outbreak.
By Vale Disamistade
The Nation, April 14, 2020
Democratic and Republican pundits have
California’s ACA success is a testimonial for Medicare for All
By Peter V. Lee, Elliott S. Fisher, Kelly Green
Health Affairs Blog, April 20-21, 2020
One of the underlying principles of the Affordable Care Act of 2010
Why medical loss ratio rebates benefit the insurers
By Rachel Fehr and Cynthia Cox
KFF, April 17, 2020
The Medical Loss Ratio (or MLR) requirement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) limits the portion of
Pandemic brings fallacy of insurance choice into focus
The insidious root of the problem is that healthcare as a market commodity simply does not work, and we've known this for decades.
By Rani Marx,
What would Jonas Salk say?
By Jonathan Salk
The Hill, April 13, 2020
There’s a lot of speculation about a COVID-19 vaccine, from false memes that need debunking, to physicians writing about
Employer plans responsible for excessive out-of-pocket costs
By Sherry A. Glied and Benjamin Zhu
The Commonwealth Fund, April 17, 2020
Abstract
Issue: Many studies report that high out-of-pocket health spending is an increasing problem, despite