By Roxanne Liu and Brenda Goh
Physician's Weekly, Reuters, November 30, 2019
China will use its national drug bulk-buy scheme to lower the price of drugs currently
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.
Robert Reich explains the real deal with Medicare for All
By Robert Reich
November 19, 2019
Republicans and even some Democrats are out to scare you about Medicare for All. They say it’s going to dismantle health
Hospital executives are beginning to think ‘single payer’
By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey
Boston Globe, November 26, 2019
When Senator Elizabeth Warren released her detailed Medicare for All plan this month, a coalition of insurers, hospitals,
William Hsiao has wise words for us on paying for health care
William Hsiao knows more about single payer systems than pretty much any other American. What does he think about ‘Medicare for All’?
By Maura Reynolds
POLITICO, November
Jeffrey Sachs explains why Democratic naysayers are wrong on Medicare for All
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Common Dreams, November 20, 2019
The American political debate over health care is absurd. Americans pay twice as much as any other nation
Why the neoliberals can’t fix health care
By John E. McDonough
The Milbank Quarterly, November 2019
August 19, 2019 was a big day for The Business Roundtable (TBR), the Washington, DC non-profit association of
Workers health insurance costs outpace incomes
By Sara R. Collins, David C. Radley, and Jesse C. Baumgartner
The Commonwealth Fund, November 21, 2019
Abstract
Issue: With 2020 elections coming up, some Democratic presidential candidates
What about the surge in health care from implementing Medicare for All?
By Adam Gaffney, Steffie Woolhandler, and David Himmelstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Online November 19, 2019
Abstract
Most analysts project that a reform like Medicare-for-All that lowers
Experts question whether one Medicare should fit all
By Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker, and Jonathan S. Skinner
National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2019
Abstract
There is increasing interest in expanding Medicare health insurance coverage in
What would a public option do to ACA marketplaces?
FTI Consulting, November 2019
Key Findings
Introducing a public option could create a “two-tier” health system where employer- based insurance provides access to a different set
Elizabeth Warren’s proposed transition to Medicare for All
By Elizabeth Warren
Medium, November 15. 2019
Every serious proposal for Medicare for All contemplates a significant transition period. Today, I’m announcing my plan to expand public
BlueCross BlueShield Association shifting support to narrower network plans
By Paige Minemyer
FierceHealthcare, November 13, 2019
Blues plans are launching a high-performance network nationwide.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) revealed this week that its member