By Dan Witters
Gallup, November 12, 2019
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34 million adults know someone who died after not getting treatment
58 million adults report inability to pay for
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.
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By Dan Witters
Gallup, November 12, 2019
Highlights
34 million adults know someone who died after not getting treatment
58 million adults report inability to pay for
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By Navindra Persaud, MD; Michael Bedard, MD; Andrew S. Boozary, MD; et al
JAMA Internal Medicine, October 7, 2019
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Importance: Nonadherence to treatment with medicines is common
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By Adam L. Logeman, MS, Oscar Ponce, MD, Neri Álvarez-Villalobos, MD, Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, November 2019
The health care system in the
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By Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Melinda K. Abrams, and Eric C. Schneider
Health Affairs, November 2019
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In a national survey, seriously ill
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By John Furse
London Review of Books, November 7, 2019
The Americanisation of the NHS is not something waiting for us in a post-Brexit future. It is
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By Moody's Analytics
BlueCross BlueShield, November 6, 2019
In the course of the last several years, millennials have shown that they are very different from previous generations
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By Lexi Churchill
ProPublica, October 31, 2019
In early August, Elizabeth Petersen was home-schooling her children in the kitchen of their northern Idaho home when she got
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By Aaron Carroll, M.D.
JAMA Forum, October 30, 2019
As “Medicare for all” gains steam in the Democratic primary, many physicians are concerned about reduced revenues from
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By Elizabeth Warren
Medium, November 1, 2019
There are two absolute non-negotiables when it comes to health care:
One: No American should ever, ever die or go bankrupt
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By Michelle Andrews
Kaiser Health News, October 29, 2019
Everything old is new again. As open enrollment gets underway for next year’s job-based health insurance coverage, some
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The Commonwealth Fund, The New York Times, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, October 2019
Reforming the U.S. health insurance system has become a major
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, October 28, 2019
In the coming months, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget will publish a detailed analysis describing