By Benjamin Studebaker & Nathan J. Robinson
Current Affairs, July 14, 2019
At one point, the meaning of “Medicare For All” was quite clear. Under Medicare 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.
Reducing reform to ‘guaranteed issue’
By Yusra Murad
Morning Consult, July 11, 2019
In a July 8-10 survey of 1,988 registered voters, a 44 percent plurality said it’s unlikely that the lawsuit
Rationing? U.S. needs to look in the mirror
By Roosa Tikkanen and Robin Osborn
The Commonwealth Fund, July 11, 2019
As recent congressional hearings on Medicare for All proposals have illustrated, members of Congress and
Health equity is declining in the United States
By Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD, Nathaniel W. Anderson, BA, of the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy & Management,
Physicians are poor health care shoppers, but there is still hope
By Michael D. Frakes, Jonathan Gruber, and Anupam Jena
National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2019
Abstract
Stemming from the belief that the key barrier to achieving high-quality
Ed Weisbart gets real on the ‘public option’
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 4, 2019
Shhh! Don’t tell the insurance companies (it’s a secret).
That’s the logic of the presidential candidates who are
‘Public charge’ immigration rules: Sorting values
By Leah Zallman, M.D., M.P.H.; Karen E. Finnegan, Ph.D.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; Sharon Touw, M.P.H.; Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
JAMA Pediatrics, July 1, 2019
Abstract
Importance: In
Health insurance is failing ICU patients in last year of life
By Khandelwal, Nita MD, MS; White, Lindsay PhD, MPH; Curtis, J. Randall MD, MPH; Coe, Norma B. PhD
Critical Care Medicine, June 2019
Abstract
Objectives: Use of intensive
Abolition of private insurance is a strength of Medicare for All, not a weakness
By Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, July 3, 2019
The “Medicare for all” bill written by Senator Bernie Sanders would cover not just standard medical services,
People will give up private insurance if they can keep their doctors and hospitals
Reduced support for single-payer overcome by assurance that Americans would not lose their doctor and hospital
By Yusra Murad
Morning Consult, July 2, 2019
Though the dividing line
The manufacturing of biased framing on reform
How media and polling company adoption of insurance industry spin warps democracy
National Economic & Social Rights Initiative
Mainstream media and public-opinion polls commonly state that the
Sources of inertia in health plan choice
Presenter: Coleman Drake
Co-Authors: Conor Ryan; Bryan Dowd
8th Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, June 23-26, 2019
Inertia, the tendency to stay enrolled in a