Video: Obama Blasts GOP Medicare, Medicaid PlansKaiser Health News, April 3, 2012Speaking in Washington to an association of newspaper editors, Obama not only attacked Republican
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.
Obama can't get single payer out of his head
Video: Obama Blasts GOP Medicare, Medicaid PlansKaiser Health News, April 3, 2012Speaking in Washington to an association of newspaper editors, Obama not only attacked Republican
Obama can't get single payer out of his head
The Barack Obama whom we had hoped was elected as president, on the topic of health care coverage, once again has stated clearly, "One way
Using insurance products to penalize unhealthy patients
Employers Tie Financial Rewards, Penalties To Health Tests, Lifestyle ChoicesBy Julie ApplebyKaiser Health News, April 2, 2012Gone are the days of just signing up for
Using insurance products to penalize unhealthy patients
Because we continue to insist that private insurance remains a mainstay of financing health care, we perpetuate the confusion between the health insurance product itself
GOP attorney general suing over ACA supports single payer
GOP Attorney General Suing Over Obamacare Supports Single-Payer: ‘I Trust The Government More’By Scott KeyesThink Progress, March 30, 2012According to one Republican attorney general in
GOP attorney general suing over ACA supports single payer
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, a Republican, who has joined the lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, certainly understands the greatest flaw in the legislation.
Profusion of single payer responses to Supreme Court deliberations
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Profusion of single payer responses to Supreme Court deliberations
This is merely a sampling of the plethora of new articles that suggest that single payer may be the answer to the constitutionally-challenged Affordable Care
Another P4P dud
The Long-Term Effect of Premier Pay for Performance on Patient OutcomesBy Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., Karen E. Joynt, M.D., M.P.H., E. John Orav, Ph.D.,
Another P4P dud
Pay for performance (P4P) is one of the measures in the Affordable Care Act (Sec. 3001) that supposedly is designed to improve quality and reduce
Matthews asks Gruber about starting over with single payer
Hardball with Chris MatthewsMSNBC, March 27, 2012What is the basis for this conversation about starting over if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is struck down