When reforms for health care are proposed, the first response by many is, what will it cost me? In the case of the premium support
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.
Physician advocacy, activism and politics
Physician advocacy: for patients and for social changeBy Josh FreemanMedicine and Social Justice, October 13, 2012A recurring question for physicians and others in the health
Physician advocacy, activism and politics
What is the disconnect between the activism of physicians who serve in Congress advocating for social, economic and political changes, and physicians in the community
What is wrong with P4P schemes?
Financial incentives may sap motivation, undermine quality: Health Affairs articlePhysicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)Press Release, October 12, 2012A leading authority on behavioral economics
What is wrong with P4P schemes?
Many of us cringe when we see various pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes. Why should that be? After all, providing monetary rewards for improving quality and possibly
Howard Waitzkin on commodification and the search for a universal health program
The Commodification of Health Care and the Search for a Universal Health Program in the United StatesBy Howard Waitzkin, M.D.Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Human Capital
Howard Waitzkin on commodification and the search for a universal health program
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Important! Medicare Advantage rip-off now quantified
Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, 1985-2012: Shifting seniors to private plans has already cost Medicare $282.6 billionBy Ida Hellander, M.D., Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., David
Important! Medicare Advantage rip-off now quantified
Although we have known all along that the private Medicare Advantage plans have been ripping off the taxpayers, this study brings together the data that
Who will remain uninsured?
After Millions of Californians Gain Health Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act, Who Will Remain Uninsured?By Laurel Lucia, Ken Jacobs, Miranda Dietz, Dave Graham-Squire, Nadereh
Who will remain uninsured?
The projected numbers and demographics of the uninsured after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California are shameful. Although there would be regional
Universal health care and the Iron Triangle myth of U.S. policy makers
Donald Light on the Iron Triangle MythBy Donald LightResponse to the October 4, 2012 Quote of the Day on the meme of access, cost and