In choosing to base reform on private insurance plans, our policy makers introduced an administrative complexity that that would have been totally unnecessary
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.
Justin Bieber's bodyguard
Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Politics, Music and Puberty In New 'Rolling Stone' Cover StoryRolling StoneFebruary 16, 2011They say that you should not use anecdotes to
Justin Bieber’s bodyguard
They say that you should not use anecdotes to make policy, but when the policy science we know supports the millions of anecdotes Americans
Medicare administrative costs – an update
2011 Primer on Medicare Spending and FinancingKaiser Family FoundationAdministrative CostsThe costs of administering the Medicare program remain at less than two percent of program expenditures.
Medicare administrative costs – an update
The costs of administering the Medicare program remain at less than two percent of program expenditures. Several other reports have been circulated claiming
H.R.676 reintroduced in the 112th Congress
112th CongressThe Library of CongressThomasH.R.676To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes. Sponsor:
H.R.676 reintroduced in the 112th Congress
The "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act," H.R. 676, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., would replace today’s private health insurers
Is ending job lock a job killer or a creator of employment opportunities?
CBO: Health law to shrink workforce by 800,000By J. Lester Feder and Kate NoceraPoliticoFebruary 10, 2011CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee on
Is ending job lock a job killer or a creator of employment opportunities?
The Republicans in Congress have been using this report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to claim that the Patient Protection and Affordable
Tiered and limited networks deprive patients of choice
Plans steer patients to lower-cost hospitalsBy Liz KowalczykThe Boston GlobeFebruary 10, 2011Hundreds of small businesses have signed up in the past month for a new
Tiered and limited networks deprive patients of choice
Although private insurers in California have led the way in innovative product changes in an attempt to keep insurance premiums competitive (at the
Will Mayo Clinic save money as an ACO?
Some insurance companies pushing plans with Mayo Clinic out of networkBy Christopher SnowbeckTwinCities.comFebruary 5, 2011Bloomington-based HealthPartners last year started marketing health plans that feature a