Long-Term Analysis of a Budget Proposal by Chairman RyanCongressional Budget OfficeApril 5, 2011House Budget Chair Paul Ryan's proposal for Medicare has two primary goals. It
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.
CBO: Medicare privatization would increase costs
House Budget Chair Paul Ryan's proposal for Medicare has two primary goals. It would end Medicare as a government program and shift it to
PNHP on Vermont's "single payer" legislation
Vermont health bill mislabeled ‘single payer’: doctors’ groupPhysicians for a National Health Program says draft legislation gives wide berth to private insurers, falls far short
PNHP on Vermont’s “single payer” legislation
Vermont is experiencing some of the problems that all state-level single payer efforts face. They are hindered by a complex quagmire of federal
Knowledgeable misinformation on reform
National Partisan Debate Elbows in on CaliforniaBy David GornCalifornia HealthlineApril 5, 2011A Field Poll on attitudes toward health care reform in California had some interesting
Knowledgeable misinformation on reform
Those of us who are quite knowledgeable about health policy are often astounded by not only the amount of misinformation about health reform,
Congressman Ryan drags “premium support” out of the health policy trash heap
Under Republican control, the House Budget Committee proposes phasing out the traditional Medicare program and replacing it with an insurance exchange offering a
Congressman Ryan drags "premium support" out of the health policy trash heap
The Path to ProsperityFiscal Year 2012 Budget ResolutionChairman Paul Ryan of WisconsinHouse Committee on the BudgetPremium support – a better way to deliver secure benefits
HHS/CMS proposed rule for accountable care organizations
Department of Health and Human ServicesCenters for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesFor the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
HHS/CMS proposed rule for accountable care organizations
Accountable care organization (ACO) is a concept that grew out of concerns over excessive levels of spending for health care that is often
Important RWJF report on cost-sharing
The Synthesis Project, Policy Brief No.20Robert Wood Johnson FoundationDecember 2010Cost-sharing: Effects on spending and outcomesBy Sarah Goodell, M.A. and Katherine Swartz, Ph.D., based on a
Important RWJF report on cost-sharing
Conservatives have framed the problem of our very high health care costs as being due to a lack of sensitivity of health care prices