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, PNHPās 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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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
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By Robert Reich
November 19, 2019
Republicans and even some Democrats are out to scare you about Medicare for All. They say itās going to dismantle health
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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,
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William Hsiao knows more about single payer systems than pretty much any other American. What does he think about āMedicare for Allā?
By Maura Reynolds
POLITICO, November
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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
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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
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By Sara R. Collins, David C. Radley, and Jesse C. Baumgartner
The Commonwealth Fund, November 21, 2019
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Issue: With 2020 elections coming up, some Democratic presidential candidates
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By Adam Gaffney, Steffie Woolhandler, and David Himmelstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Online November 19, 2019
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Most analysts project that a reform like Medicare-for-All that lowers
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By Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker, and Jonathan S. Skinner
National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2019
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There is increasing interest in expanding Medicare health insurance coverage in
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FTI Consulting, November 2019
Key Findings
Introducing a public option could create a ātwo-tierā health system where employer- based insurance provides access to a different set
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By Elizabeth Warren
Medium, November 15. 2019
Every serious proposal for Medicare for All contemplates a significant transition period. Today, Iām announcing my plan to expand public
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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