By David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; Terry Campbell, M.H.A.; Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Annals of Internal Medicine, January 7, 2020
Abstract
Background: Before Canada's single-payer reform, its payment system,
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.
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Why insulin is overpriced
By Julia Belluz
Vox, November 7, 2019
When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it
Growth of Medicare Advantage could suppress support of Medicare for All
By Bruce Japsen
Forbes, January 1, 2020
Health insurers are expected to make it more difficult on Presidential candidates pushing single payer versions of “Medicare for All”
Insurers, pharmacies and primary care forming the next generation of managed care
By Jaimy Lee
MarketWatch, December 28, 2019
A handful of companies like Humana Inc. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. that are better known for operating pharmacy counters
The time is now for Medicare for All
By Robert Weissman
Port Charlotte Sun, December 29, 2019
By almost every relevant metric, we do the worst or nearly the worst among all rich countries. We
Health care prices are terrible, but we can control them
By Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, December 27, 2019
Why does health care cost so much more in the United States than in other countries? As
Insurers and hospitals fight while patients suffer
California Medical Association, December 23, 2019
Cottage Hospital System has initiated a contract termination with Anthem Blue Cross that affects three hospitals in the central Santa
William Greider’s message for us
The End of New Deal Liberalism
By William Greider
The Nation, January 5, 2011
We have reached a pivotal moment in government and politics, and it feels like
Forget moral hazard; let’s achieve health care justice for all
By Thomas C. Buchmueller, Helen G. Levy, Robert G. Valletta
National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2019
Abstract
We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care
‘Centrist bias’ smothers much needed reform
The political establishment loves the center. But it’s the radicals who end up writing history.
By John F. Harris
Politico Magazine, November 7, 2019
Washington journalists these days
Jim Hightower knocks fraidy-cat Democrats
Not ordinary Democrats or independents — just insurance companies, lobbyists, and old-line politicians.
By Jim Hightower
Other Words, December 11, 2019
We might expect that corporate billionaires and
CBO report on the distribution of household income
Congressional Budget Office, December 2019
Share of Total Income Received by Each Income Group
To assess the direct distributional effects of federal fiscal policies, CBO projected each