By Isabel V. Sawhill and Christopher Pulliam
Brookings, January 21, 2020
The state of the American middle class is a hot topic on the campaign trail and
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.
‘Complete’ health insurance improves access and prevents financial hardship
By Christopher T. Robertson
STAT, January 20, 2020
Lost in the shuffle of competing plans for saving health care is the radical call by Democratic presidential candidates
The American College of Physicians’ endorsement of single payer
By Robert Doherty, B.A.; Thomas G. Cooney, M.D.; Ryan D. Mire, M.D.; Lee S. Engel, M.D.; Jason M. Goldman, M.D.; for the Health and Public
Labor should not bargain against itself on Medicare for All
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Illinois AFL-CIO Convention, October 1965
"At the turn of the century women earned approximately ten cents an hour, and men were
Health care inflation? It’s the insurer administrative costs, stupid.
By Dean Baker
Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 13, 2019
Over the year, the overall CPI is up 1.8 percent, while the core index is
Use polls as a tool, not as a deterrent
By Alvin Powell
The Harvard Gazette, January 14, 2020
Health care, climate change, and political reality collided this week, when experts discussing national single-payer health insurance clashed
Projected costs of single payer in the United States
By Christopher Cai, Jackson Runte, Isabel Ostrer, Kacey Berry, Ninez Ponce, Michael Rodriguez, Stefano Bertozzi, Justin S. White, James G. Kahn
PLOS Medicine, January 15, 2020
Abstract
Background:
Lessons from Canada
The Canadian system, also called Medicare, guarantees coverage to every resident north of the U.S. border.
By Caitlin Kelly
The American Prospect, January 8, 2020
Canadian health care
Time to abandon the ACO concept
By Maria Castellucci
Modern Healthcare, January 10, 2020
The experimental Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model didn't save Medicare money during the first two performance years, according
Improving medication adherence through the VA approach
By Adam Gaffney, David H. Bor, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, and Danny McCormick
Health Affairs, January 2020
Abstract
High out-of-pocket drug spending worsens adherence and outcomes, especially
New York Times asks us to quit fighting about ‘Medicare for All’
One policy proposal has defined this Democratic race. It’s time to move on.
By Michelle Cottle
The New York Times, January 8, 2020
With strong support among the
Perspective from Anne Case, Angus Deaton and Robert Putnam
By Heather Long
The Washington Post, January 7, 2020
America’s sky-high health-care costs are so far above what people pay in other countries that they are the