By California Nurses Association
National Nurses United, February 19, 2021
Renewing its commitment to the larger fight for health care justice, the California Nurses Association (CNA) is
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.
Are Medicare Advantage plans going to take over the food industry?
By Karl T. Johnson, B.A.; Deepak Palakshappa, M.D.; Sanjay Basu, M.D., Ph.D.; Hilary Seligman, M.D., M.A.S.; Seth A. Berkowitz, M.D., M.P.H.
HSR, Health Services Research, February
‘Choosing Wisely’ has been disappointing
By John N. Mafi, M.D., M.P.H.; Rachel O. Reid, M.D., M.S.; Lesley H. Baseman, B.A.; Scot Hickey, M.S.; Mark Totten, M.S.; Denis Agniel, Ph.D.; A.
CBO report on Medicare for All
By CBO’s Single-Payer Health Care Systems Team
Congressional Budget Office, December 2020
Abstract
In this paper, CBO describes the methods it has developed to analyze the federal budgetary
El-Sayed and Johnson: A citizen’s guide to Medicare for All
By Abdul El-Sayed, M.D. and Micah Johnson, M.D.
Sample excerpt:
When analyzing how health reform proposals do (or do not) address these problems, it is also helpful
Russell Mokhiber explains why private Medicare Advantage plans are a bad deal
By Russell Mokhiber
Corporate Crime Reporter, February 13, 2021
Carolyn Adessa worked for fifteen years as an art therapist for the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center.
When she retired
Beware out-of-network payments in Medicare Advantage
By Austin Frakt and Tynan Friend
The Incidental Economist, February 10, 2021
The complexity of Medicare Advantage (MA) physician networks has been well-documented, but the payment regulations
Public policy and health in the Trump era
By Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, Co-chairs, with 31 other authors
The Lancet Commissions, February 11, 2021
Executive Summary (Short Version)
Convened shortly after President Trump’s inauguration in
Broad Coalition of Health Industry Groups Calls for Obamacare Expansion
By Reed Abelson
The New York Times, February 10, 2021
In an unusual display of unity, groups representing nearly all the major players in the American health
Private insurers cannot simply adopt Medicare efficiencies
By Robert P. Kocher, M.D.
JAMA, February 2, 2021
The US health care system is famous for its expense and its waste.
The US health care system is
Cost-Sharing Causes Death
By Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack, and Ziad Obermeyer
National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2021
Abstract
We use the design of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate
Private Medicare Advantage plans continue to upcode for billions in extra payments
By David J. Meyers, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Amal N. Trivedi, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Care, Official Journal of the Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association, February 2021
Abstract
Background: