Medicare And Commercial Health Insurance: The Fundamental DifferenceBy Diane Archer and Theodore MarmorHealth Affairs Blog, February 15, 2012As the debate over Medicare continues in connection
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.
Archer and Marmor on Medicare versus commercial insurance
The fundamental difference between Medicare and commercial health insurance is very basic and easy to understand. Medicare is "designed to absorb and broadly distribute risk,
Explaining regional variation in private health care spending
Health Status and Hospital Prices Key to Regional Variation in Private SpendingResearch Brief by Chapin WhiteNational Institute for Health Care Reform, February 15, 2012Differences in
Explaining regional variation in private health care spending
Policy wonks likely will download this Research Brief since it will prove to be a landmark study explaining the wide variation in spending amongst privately
Vermont adds bronze plan
Vt. would allow 'bronze plan' to encourage healthcbsnews.comFebruary 6, 2012Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and legislative leaders said Monday they wanted to make it possible for
Vermont adds bronze plan
Vermont is providing us with very important lessons on just how difficult it is to set up a single payer program on a state level.
Hospitals’ charity obligations
Hospitals Flout Charity Aid LawBy Nina BernsteinThe New York Times, February 12, 2012New York’s charity care system, partly financed by an 8.95 percent surcharge on
Hospitals' charity obligations
Hospitals Flout Charity Aid LawBy Nina BernsteinThe New York Times, February 12, 2012New York’s charity care system, partly financed by an 8.95 percent surcharge on
Hospitals' charity obligations
How much charity care should hospitals be expected to provide? Contrary to the prevailing view, the answer should be, "None." Let me explain.
Insurers shift more out-of-network costs to patients
Consumers Hit By Higher Out-of-Network Medical CostsBy Julie ApplebyKaiser Health News, February 8, 2012Consumers have long complained about the cost of going outside their health
Insurers shift more out-of-network costs to patients
The most effective cost containment tool introduced during the managed care revolution was the ability of insurers to contract for set rates with networks of
Help make Lawrence O’Donnell on SINGLE PAYER go viral!
How America got into birth control messThe Last Word with Lawrence O'DonnellMSNBC, February 8, 2012In this seven minute video, Lawrence O'Donnell uses the current controversy