By Noam N. Levey
Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2019
Even as soaring insurance deductibles wreak financial havoc on millions of American families, some workers have managed
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.
Wendell Potter pulls Choice of Care out of ‘My Care, My Choice’
By Wendell Potter
Twitter, December 16, 2019
Lately I’ve noticed some Democratic politicians defending the current healthcare system by saying it preserves “choice” for Americans. As a
It’s the private insurers, stupid
By Drew Altman, Kaiser Family Foundation
Axios, December 16, 2019
The cost of private health insurance is out of control, compared to Medicare and Medicaid. You see
Private Medicare Advantage plans use chart review to bilk the taxpayers out of billions
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, December 2019
The risk adjustment program is an important Medicare Advantage (MA) payment mechanism. It
President Trump’s Executive Order to privatize Medicare
By Donald J. Trump
The White House, October 3, 2019
(Excerpts)
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
Moving forward on Medicare for All: House Hearing, and January Colloquium
By Jessie Hellmann
The Hill, December 10, 2019
"Medicare for All" supporters scored a victory Tuesday with a long-awaited hearing in one of the House's most powerful
Medicare for All would improve hospital financing
By Christopher Cai, James Kahn
Health Affairs Blog, December 9, 2019
Hospitals account for more than one trillion dollars of health expenditures annually, and analysts have raised
It’s irrefutable, health insurance saves lives
By Jacob Goldin, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Janet McCubbin
National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2019
Abstract
We evaluate a randomized pilot study in which the IRS sent
National Health Care Spending; But what’s the real story?
By Micah Hartman, Anne B. Martin, Joseph Benson, Aaron Catlin - CMS Office of the Actuary
Health Affairs, December 5, 2019
Abstract
US health care spending increased 4.6
Declining life expectancy in the United States
By Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH; Heidi Schoomaker, MAEd
JAMA, November 26, 2019
Abstract
Importance: US life expectancy has not kept pace with that of other wealthy countries
Many low-income workers fare poorly under the Affordable Care Act
By Tara Straw
Health Affairs Blog, December 3, 2019
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) extended health coverage to more than 20 million people and strengthened consumer protections
The public option won’t fix our system
By Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, December 3, 2019
The single-payer health plans proposed by Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are often assailed as being