Health Reform Devolves Into 'Unaffordable Under-Insurance'By Roger BybeeIn These Times, December 7, 2011Healthcare reform in the shape of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare")
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.
Don McCanne on “unaffordable under-insurance”
This brief article from In These Times, available at the link above, explains how the Affordable Care Act is bringing us a new national standard
Defined contributions future for health care
Orszag: Defined Contributions Define Health-Care FutureBy Peter OrszagBloomberg, December 6, 2011Over the next decade, we are likely to see a shift in health insurance in
Shocking growth of premiums – in a single interactive visualization
State Trends in Premiums and Deductibles, 2003–2010: The Need for Action to Address Rising CostsBy Cathy Schoen, M.S., Ashley-Kay Fryer, Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., and
Shocking growth of premiums – in a single interactive visualization
More people receive their health insurance through their work than from any other source. The costs of employer-sponsored plans have been skyrocketing, as demonstrated by
Michael Dukakis on ACOs: "We tried that, folks. It didn’t work."
Michael Dukakis on ACOs: "We tried that, folks. It didn’t work."By Chelsea ConaboyThe Boston Globe, November 28, 2011The creation of accountable care organizations or a
Michael Dukakis on ACOs: “We tried that, folks. It didn’t work.”
Michael Dukakis certainly recognizes accountable care organizations as being merely a new variant of HMOs with capitation. He worries about us "futzing around" with ACOS,
The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment
The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment: Slow Start Shows Problems In Implementing New Payment ModelsBy Peter S. Hussey, M. Susan Ridgely and Meredith B. RosenthalHealth Affairs,
The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment
The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment held the promise of improving the quality of care while controlling costs simply by bundling together services of multiple health
Does ACA's "Basic Health Program" stabilize coverage?
Balancing Coverage Affordability and Continuity under a Basic Health Program OptionBy John A. Graves, Ph.D., Rick Curtis, M.P.P., and Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D.The New England Journal
Does ACA’s “Basic Health Program” stabilize coverage?
Section 1331 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorizes states to establish "basic health programs" to cover individuals with incomes between 133%
Office visits down 17% for privately insured
The Economy and Medical CareBy Gary Claxton and Larry LevittKaiser Family Foundation, November 15, 2011Various market watchers have reported that the use of health care