By Governor Gavin Newsom
February 12, 2019
Next, if we’re serious about taming the cost crisis we need affordable healthcare for all Californians.
Our ability to invest in
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.
368 members of Congress support Medicare privatization
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), February 7, 2019
368 bipartisan leaders in Congress signed their support for the Medicare Advantage program. On behalf of the nearly
Do only 13 percent support Medicare for All if it means end of private insurance?
By Matthew Sheffield
The Hill, February 7, 2019
A new poll finds that about only one in 10 registered voters want the equivalent of Medicare for all
Eighty-seven million adults are inadequately insured
By Sara R. Collins, Herman K. Bhupal, and Michelle M. Doty
The Commonwealth Fund, February 7, 2019
The greatest deterioration in the quality and comprehensiveness of coverage
Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act
By David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; Robert M. Lawless, J.D.; Deborah Thorne, Ph.D.; Pamela Foohey, J.D.; and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
AJPH, March 2019
In surveys conducted by
Hospital prices grew faster than physician prices in hospital-based care
By Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, Nir J. Harish, Harlan M. Krumholz, and John Van Reenen
Health Affairs, February 2019
Abstract
Evidence suggests that growth in providers’
Immigration for a healthier nation
By Joe Mathews
San Francisco Chronicle, February 3, 2019
What makes California the very picture of health? It’s neither sunshine nor silicone.
Our health secret is immigration.
While the
Public Citizen: The Case for Medicare for All
By Eagan Kemp and his colleagues at Public Citizen
February 4, 2019
From the Introduction
These facts are not in dispute: The United States spends the most per
Cheap capital, predatory pricing and death
By Dr. Vikas Saini
WBUR, January 31, 2019
Prescription drug prices have become a high-profile issue, with a growing clamor from politicians, including Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker,
What happens when not-for-profit insurers convert to for-profit?
By Leemore S. Dafny
Harvard Business School, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019
Abstract
There is limited empirical evidence about the impact of for-profit health insurers on
Democratic politicians want to keep private insurance in play
By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Elizabeth Landers
CNN, January 30, 2013
The emerging 2020 presidential campaign has deepened the Democratic party's divide over how the government
ACA has reduced the uninsured population by less than two-fifths
By Rachel Garfield, Kendal Orgera, and Anthony Damico
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 25, 2019
By 2013, the year before the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care