By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
From Chapter 9: A World of Possibility
Private Health Insurance: A Huge Poll Tax
The other specificity of the United States compared
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.
Saez and Zucman: We can have health care and a pay raise
Not only would universal healthcare reduce taxes for most people, it would also lead to the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation for most
Adam Gaffney: It’s the financing system, stupid.
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that U.S. health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He
Republican Study Committee releases the RSC Health Care Plan
Republican Study Committee, October 22, 2019
Today, the Republican Study Committee released The RSC Health Care Plan: A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care (click here to
Paul Krugman on Warren’s Medicare trap
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times, October 21, 2019
On Sunday, Elizabeth Warren said that she would soon release a plan explaining how she intends to
It’s not just the insurers who are causing sky-high surprise medical bills
By Eileen Appelbaum
CounterPunch, October 18, 2019
Most people assume that if they are treated at a hospital in their insurance network, the doctors they see will
Urban Institute analysis, and new report on change in utilization
By David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
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The following comments are from a release by PNHP President Adam Gaffney:
"A broad-based movement is demanding
Former insurance CEO describes market failure of the private insurance model
By J.B. Silvers
The New York Times, October 15, 2019
Much to the dismay of single-payer advocates, our current health insurance system is likely to end with
Support for a public option is increasing as single payer sinks
By Lunna Lopes, Liz Hamel, Audrey Kearney, and Mollyann Brodie
KFF, October 15, 2019
Support for Medicare-for-all has narrowed in recent months, with 51% now saying they
UnitedHealthcare takes choice of Houston Methodist away from 100, 000 members
By Jenny Deam
Houston Chronicle, October 10, 2019
As many as 100,000 UnitedHealthcare plan members could lose in-network access to all eight Houston Methodist hospitals and dozens
High deductibles impair access and financial security of COPD patients
By Adam Gaffney, Alexander White, Laura Hawks, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, David C Christiani, and Danny McCormick
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, October 10, 2019
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Rationale:
Turning fraud and abuse control over to the potential abusers
By Bob Herman
Axios, October 10, 2019
The Trump administration is proposing to loosen regulations that prohibit doctors from steering patients insured by federal programs to facilities