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
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.
PNHP has archived Dr. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Drug co-payments can be hazardous to your health
By Navindra Persaud, MD; Michael Bedard, MD; Andrew S. Boozary, MD; et al
JAMA Internal Medicine, October 7, 2019
Abstract
Importance: Nonadherence to treatment with medicines is common
Influential chief executives of health systems are bringing us more managed care
By Adam L. Logeman, MS, Oscar Ponce, MD, Neri Ćlvarez-Villalobos, MD, Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, November 2019
The health care system in the
Half of Medicare beneficiaries with serious illness face financial hardship
By Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Melinda K. Abrams, and Eric C. Schneider
Health Affairs, November 2019
Abstract
In a national survey, seriously ill
The Americanization of England’s NHS: HMOs, ACOs and all
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
The economic consequences of millennial health
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
Trump administration erects barriers to children’s health care
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
The myth of a physician exodus under Medicare for All
By Aaron Carroll, M.D.
JAMA Forum, October 30, 2019
As āMedicare for allā gains steam in the Democratic primary, many physicians are concerned about reduced revenues from
Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for Medicare for All
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
Some employers now recognize the detrimental impact of high-deductible plans
By Michelle Andrews
Kaiser Health News, October 29, 2019
Everything old is new again. As open enrollment gets underway for next yearās job-based health insurance coverage, some
Harvard survey on beliefs about health insurance reform
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
CRFB’s irresponsible report on financing Medicare for All
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