UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences
UC Berkeley, January 24, 2020
In this colloquium, we gather leaders in Medicare-for-All design from the U.S. along with international health
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.
Medicare Advantage revenues are 30 percent higher than their health care spending!
By Vilsa Curto, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan Levin, Jay Bhattacharya
American Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019
Abstract
We compare health care spending in
Medicaid improves financial risk protection, but still falls short
By Hiroshi Gotanda, research scientist, Ashish K Jha, K T Li professor of health policy, Gerald F Kominski, professor of health policy, Yusuke Tsugawa, assistant
John Geyman’s ‘Long-Term Care in America’
By John Geyman, M.D.
Copernicus Healthcare
Preface
Providing personal and compassionate long-term care for aging seniors and people with disabilities has been a challenge over the last 100
The State of America’s Children
Children's Defense Fund, February 3, 2010
Introduction
For years our country has fallen short of its promise to its children, and as we enter a new decade,
The MIPS mess
By Elizabeth Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC
Medscape, January 29, 2020
If you've knocked yourself out to earn a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) bonus payment, it's pretty
Medicare Advantage overpayments explained
By Richard Kronick
Health Affairs Blog, January 29, 2020
In the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Congress gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the
Here they come – block grants for Medicaid
CMS.gov, January 30, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing a new opportunity to support states with greater flexibility to improve the
UK’s secret? Social solidarity.
The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Hereās how.
By Ezra Klein
Vox, January 28, 2020
The UK spends barely half
In spite of ACA, affordability of care is being undermined for too many
By Laura Hawks, M.D.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.; David H. Bor, M.D.; Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.; Danny McCormick, M.D., M.P.H.
JAMA Internal
Redistribution of health care costs
By Katherine Grace Carman, Ph.D.; Jodi Liu, Ph.D.; Chapin White, Ph.D.
HSR, Health Services Research, January 27, 2020
What This Study Adds
Health care financing arrangements are
16 minutes EHR time per ambulatory patient? Get real!
By J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D. and David McCallie Jr., M.D.
Annals of Internal Medicine, January 14, 2020
Abstract
Background: The amount of time that providers spend using