By Marty Schladen and Cathy Candisky
The Columbus Dispatch, January 20, 2019
CVS used its role as a pharmacy middleman for the Ohio Medicaid program to pay
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.
Close to half haven’t heard of ‘Medicare for All’
NORC, University of Chicago, Poll conducted December 13-16, 2018
How much have people heard about Medicare-for-All?
46% - Not at all
40% - Some
13% - A lot
1% -
Uninsured rate at four-year high
By Dan Witters
GALLUP, January 23, 2019
The U.S. adult uninsured rate stood at 13.7% in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Americans' reports of their
More nuanced views of health care reform
By Ashley Kirzinger, Cailey Muñana, and Mollyann Brodie
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 23, 2019
This month’s KFF Health Tracking Poll continues to find majority support (driven by
More Trump administration abuse through the rule-making process
Health and Human Services Department, Proposed Rule, January 17, 2019
Summary
This proposed rule sets forth payment parameters and provisions related to the risk adjustment and risk
Martin Luther King Jr. on the myth of time
By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
City Temple, London, England, December 7, 1964
Now I would like to mention one or two ideas that circulate in our
Hospital readmission reduction program does not live up to its hype
By Christopher Ody, Lucy Msall, Leemore S. Dafny, David C. Grabowski, and David M. Cutler
Health Affairs, January 2019
Abstract
Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been
That promise of Medicare for All hearings?
By William Davis
The Daily Caller, January 3, 2019
Soon-to-be Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is willing to test the waters on an important grassroots
GoFundMe CEO on funding health care
By Rachel Bluth
Kaiser Health News, January 16, 2019
Scrolling through the GoFundMe website reveals seemingly an endless number of people who need help or community support.
There is bipartisan agreement that our health care system has major problems
By Justin McCarthy
Gallup, January 14, 2019
Seventy percent of Americans describe the current U.S. healthcare system as being "in a state of crisis" or having "major
It’s Still The Prices, Stupid
By Gerard F. Anderson, Peter Hussey, and Varduhi Petrosyan
Health Affairs, January 2019
Abstract
A 2003 article titled “It’s the Prices, Stupid,” and coauthored by the three of
Public retirees being shifted to private insurance exchanges
By Liz Farmer
Governing, January 9, 2019
The cost of retiree health care is spiraling out of control. In just two years, according to a recent S&P