By Callum J. Jones, Thomas Philippon, Venky Venkateswaran
National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2020
We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households
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.
ACO wonks stumbling through the pandemic
By William K. Bleser, Elizabeth Singletary, Hannah L. Crook, Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, Robert S. Saunders, Mark B. McClellan
Health Affairs Blog, April 14, 2020
The purpose of this
Financial Times on the social contract
Radical reforms are required to forge a society that will work for all
By The Editorial Board
Financial Times, April 3, 2020
Beyond defeating the disease, the great
COVID-19: The swan song of ACOs
By Maria Castellucci
Modern Healthcare, April 13, 2020
Most accountable care organizations taking on downside risk in the Medicare Shared Savings Program are considering dropping out due
Malcolm Gladwell: The lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic
Munk Dialogue, April 9, 2020
Rudyard Griffiths: What do you think will be the best thing coming out of this?
Malcolm Gladwell: If I had to identify
Beware the ACO enablers
By Maria Castellucci
Modern Healthcare, March 21, 2020
While Caravan Health, one of the consulting firms typically called ACO enablers, is taking on all the downside risk
UnitedHealth, Cigna sued for underpaying out-of-network providers
By Shelby Livingston
Modern Healthcare, April 6, 2020
Several behavioral health providers and patients sued UnitedHealth Group and Cigna subsidiaries for allegedly underpaying the providers for out-of-network
COVID-19 pandemic and the loss of health insurance
By Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH; David U. Himmelstein, MD
Annals of Internal Medicine, April 7, 2020
During the final week of March 2020, the U.S. Department of
Fate of commercial insurance under the COVID-19 pandemic
Covered California, March 22, 2020
This policy/actuarial brief provides projections and models the potential costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) testing and treatment on the national commercial
What we can learn from health insurance coverage in the construction industry
By Samantha Brown, M.P.H., Raina D. Brooks, M.P.H., and Xiuwen Sue Dong, Dr.P.H.
The Center for Construction Research and Training, Data Bulletin, April 2020
This Data Bulletin
Sebelius and Fowler look back
Kaiser Health News, March 19, 2020
Julie Rovner: Now itās 10 years later, the law is more popular than ever. And yet there are still some
Another gift of COVID-19: Medical bankruptcy
By Allison K. Hoffman
The Hill, April 1, 2020
With three relief bills passed, Congress addressed the most immediate health and economic threats from COVID-19. Yet, it