By Ken Terry, David Muhlestein
Health Affairs Blog, March 11, 2021
Recently, a number of health policy experts have suggested that the best route to universal coverage
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.
Compounding health care issues with financial harm
Bad news for one unlucky patient is also a stark example of how dysfunctional U.S. health coverage can be.
By Sarah Kliff
The New York Times, March
Potential divergent paths on health care reform
Insights From Public Opinion Polls
By Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D.; John M. Benson, M.A.; Eric C. Schneider, M.D.
JAMA Network, March 5, 2021
As a result of the
Temporary gifts to private insurance. That’s reform?!
By Sarah Kliff
The New York Times, March 5, 2021
Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential primary debating the best way to expand public health insurance.
What are the trade-offs in public health insurance design?
By Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.
JAMA, March 2, 2021
The importance of access to health care and the financial protections that insurance should provide have never been more
Is there an incremental path to Medicare for All?
We talked to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed about M4A and building a movement in the wake of Biden’s victory.
By Natalie Shure
The Nation, March 1, 2021
Even if
Should we shop for health care prices?
Re: Chernew M, Cooper Z, Larsen Hallock E, and Scott Morton F. “Physician Agency, Consumerism, and the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans.” Journal of Health
President Biden’s health care tweaks will perpetuate expensive mediocrity
The Biden administration is trying to make the health care law more generous and closer to its original design, but may disappoint progressive allies hoping
Jonathan Cohn: ‘The Ten Year War’
By Jonathan Cohn
St. Martin's Press, February 2021
Excerpts from the Conclusion - What Change Looks Like:
The next great debate over health care reform might not happen
Why did Haven fail?
By Cheryl Clark
MedPage Today, February 19, 2021
When they made their bold announcement in mid 2018, three corporate powerhouses -- Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JP Morgan
Stanford business professor discovers administrative sludge
A new study finds that dealing with health insurance administrators costs the U.S. economy billions in wasted work time and lost productivity.
By Edmund L. Andrews
Stanford
Private equity investment in nursing homes
By Atul Gupta, Sabrina T. Howell, Constantine Yannelis & Abhinav Gupta
National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2021
Abstract
The past two decades have seen a rapid increase