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Quote of the Day

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.

California’s new single payer bill

Posted February 22, 2021

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

Are Medicare Advantage plans going to take over the food industry?

Posted February 19, 2021

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

Posted February 18, 2021

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

Posted February 17, 2021

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

Posted February 16, 2021

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

Posted February 15, 2021

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

Posted February 12, 2021

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

Posted February 11, 2021

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

Posted February 10, 2021

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

Posted February 9, 2021

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

Posted February 8, 2021

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

Posted February 5, 2021

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

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