By Keoni Everington
Taiwan News, March 18, 2019
The popular antidepressant Prozac is to be permanently removed from pharmacy shelves this April in Taiwan, announced the drug's
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.
Why did electronic health records become a problem?
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion
They tell us, ‘Medicare for All isn’t the only way to go’
By Merrill Goozner
Modern Healthcare, March 16, 2018
Healthcare providers and insurers are gearing up to oppose Medicare for All. No surprise there. Insurers can’t look kindly
The socioeconomically deprived fare much better medically in Canada than in the USA
By Keren M. Escobar, Dorian Murariu, Sharon Munro, Kevin M. Gorey
Journal of Public Health Research, March 11, 2019
Abstract
This study tested the hypothesis that socioeconomically vulnerable
Hospital-sponsored study of Medicare-X Choice Act
By Lane Koenig, PhD, Asha Saavoss, Samuel Soltoff, Berna Demiralp, PhD, Jing Xu, PhD
KNG Health Consulting, LLC, March 12, 2019
In this study, we model the
Diane Archer explains why Medicare for some is the wrong idea
By Diane Archer
The Hill, March 11, 2019
If you’re following the health care debate, you’ve already heard quite a bit about “Medicare for all,” the proposal
BlueCross BlueShield proposal to reduce premiums and expand access
BlueCross BlueShield Association, Issue Brief, March 2019
Many individuals who have significant medical conditions and need extensive and often costly care depend on the individual market
High-deductible health plans cause women to delay breast cancer care
By J. Frank Wharam, Fang Zhang, Jamie Wallace, Christine Lu, Craig Earle, Stephen B. Soumerai, Larissa Nekhlyudov, and Dennis Ross-Degnan
Health Affairs, March 2019
Abstract
The effects of
Buffett, Bezos, Dimon & Gawande’s “Haven” not living up to the hype
Haven, accessed March 7, 2019
Haven was established by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to bring together the resources and capabilities of the three companies
High-need patients disenroll from private Medicare Advantage plans
By David J. Meyers, MPH; Emmanuelle Belanger, PhD; Nina Joyce, PhD; John McHugh, PhD; Momotazur Rahman, PhD; Vincent Mor, PhD
JAMA Internal Medicine, February 25, 2019
From
Conflating patient primacy with the patient-as-a-consumer metaphor
By Michael K. Gusmano, Karen J. Maschke, and Mildred Z. Solomon
Health Affairs, March 2019
Abstract
There are numerous calls for building health care delivery systems that are
PNHP’s Adam Gaffney educates Fox Business panel
Fox Business, March 1, 2019
Physicians for a National Health Program President Dr. Adam Gaffney discusses why the U.S. should move to single-payer health care system.
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