By Seema Verma, Administrator
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Blog, December 21, 2018
Today the Trump Administration announced our overhaul of the program for Accountable Care
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.
Report of The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health
By Prof. Ibrahim Abubakar, FRCP; Robert W. Aldridge, PhD; Delan Devakumar, PhD; Miriam Orcutt, MSc; Rachel Burns, MSc; Prof. Mauricio L. Barreto, MD; et al.
The
Medscape poll: Healthcare professionals support single payer
By Alicia Ault
Medscape, December 18, 2018
As many of the newly elected and newly empowered Democrats in Congress are vowing to push for what they are
Managing personal cash flow for medical services, but not with HSAs
By Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, Amar Hamoudi, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Health Affairs, Health Policy Brief, December 13, 2018
Consumer health care spending is sensitive to cash flow
Texas judge shoots down ACA. Now what?
By Nicholas Bagley
The Washington Post, December 15, 2018
Late Friday night, a district court in Texas declared the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional — lock, stock
Wendell Potter warns against merely tweaking with a Medicare buy-in
Go for dramatic reforms. Health insurance companies are interested in profits, not playing fair. I should know. I used to be a vice president at
Differentiating the real Medicare-for-All from the sham knockoffs
By Sarah Kliff and Dylan Scott
Vox, December 13, 2018
“Medicare-for-all” has become a rallying cry on the left, but the term doesn’t capture the full scope
House Democratic leadership may be open to hearings on Medicare for All
By Peter Sullivan
The Hill, December 11, 2018
The incoming chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), said Tuesday that he is
It’s politics, not policy, that’s holding us back
By Adam Gaffney
The Guardian, December 11, 2018
If you can’t undercut a popular proposal as undesirable, make it sound impossible. That, in any event, has been
Establishment wants to crush Medicare for All advocates, but will the people buy that?
By Adam Cancryn
POLITICO, December 10, 2018
The united front that helped Democrats save Obamacare just a year ago is falling apart over single-payer health care.
Deep-pocketed hospital,
Our best private insurance is a growing burden
By Sara R. Collins and David C. Radley
The Commonwealth Fund, December 7, 2018
Recent national surveys show health care costs are a top concern in U.S.
Health care spending now nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy
By Anne B. Martin, Micah Hartman, Benjamin Washington, Aaron Catlin, and The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team
Health Affairs, December 6, 2018 (Published Ahead of Print)
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