By David Cutler, Ph.D.
JAMA Health Forum, January 28, 2021
(Excerpts)
From 2007 to 2019, the 2 most recent business cycle peaks, the growth of inflation-adjusted GDP per
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.
Clustering of out-of-pocket spending can produce financial hardship
By Steven Chen, Paul R. Shafer, Stacie B. Dusetzina, and Michal Horný
Health Affairs, February 2021
Abstract
The distribution of out-of-pocket spending throughout the year is an important
Medicare already improves access and affordability
By Paul D. Jacobs
Health Affairs, February 2021
Abstract
Medicare pays for roughly one in four physician visits in the United States, yet a rigorous understanding of how
Singapore fails to meet needs of marginalized
By Tessa Oh
Today, Updated January 31, 2021
Singapore’s healthcare system can do better by taking into consideration the experiences of people from marginalised communities in order
Exorbitant prices of brand name drugs
By Andrew W. Mulcahy, Christopher M. Whaley, Mahlet G. Tebeka, Daniel Schwam, Nathaniel Edenfield, Alejandro U. Becerra-Ornelas
RAND, Research Report, January 28, 2021
Conclusion
Although several prior studies
President Biden dodges health care reform
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Abby Goodnough and Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, January 28, 2021
President Biden, seeking to expand access to health care and strengthen
It is not hard to cut waste in health care
By Amy Finkelstein
The New York Times, January 22, 2021
Cutting waste while preserving critically important treatment is the holy grail of health care policy.
One of the
Health Economists May Be Getting The Supply-And-Demand Framework All Wrong
By Alan Weil, Adam Gaffney
Health Affairs, January 26, 2021
Have health economists been underestimating supply-side constraints when making predictions regarding cost and utilization for universal health
Rural hospitals are closing
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), December 2020
What GAO Found
GAO found that when rural hospitals closed, residents living in the closed hospitals’ service areas would
Views around health, equity, and race during the pandemic
Many see COVID-19 as a moment for change, with improving access to health care as the shift they most want to see.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Building Back a Better Medicare Program
By John E. McDonough and Sherry Glied
The Milbank Quarterly, January 21, 2021
Every US administration since 1966 has had to engage in Medicare policymaking. The program
Inaugural Address
By Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Inaugural Address, January 20, 2021
I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand