By Robert Pear
The New York Times, December 1, 2018
Older Americans have been flocking to Medicare’s private plans, which promise predictable costs and extra benefits.
But the
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.
Don Berwick and students on the political status of Medicare for All
By Sanjay Kishore, Micah Johnson, Don Berwick
Health Affairs Blog, December 3, 2018
Health care was the most important issue for voters in the 2018 Congressional elections,
University of Massachusetts Amherst PERI Report on Medicare for All
By Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Peter Arno, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Michael Ash
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), November 30, 2018
Abstract
This study by
Number of uninsured children has gone up to almost 4 million
By Joan Alker
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, November 28, 2018
For the past eight years, CCF has published a report tracking health coverage rates for children
Democrats lowering sights to a Medicare buy-in?
By Nathaniel Weixel
The Hill, November 29, 2018
Momentum is building among House Democrats for a more moderate alternative to single-payer health-care legislation.
The legislation, which would allow
A California lesson on eliminating the individual mandate penalty
By Miranda Dietz Laurel Lucia, Dylan H. Roby, Ken Jacobs, Petra W. Rasmussen, Xiao Chen, Dave Graham-Squire, Greg Watson, Ian Perry, Gerald F. Kominski
UC Berkeley
Medical students provide lesson on Medicare for All for NewYork-Presbyterian CEO
By Lydia Ramsey
Business Insider, November 2, 2108
Dr. Steven Corwin knows what he does is expensive.
Corwin is the CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Surgeries, intensive care, and
Trump administration wants to change rules to bring back kickbacks
By Robert Pear
The New York Times, November 24, 2018
The Trump administration has labored zealously to cut federal regulations, but its latest move has still astonished
Health care industry battle plan against ‘Medicare for All’
By Lee Fang and Nick Surgey
The Intercept, November 20, 2018
Now that the midterms are finally over, the battle against “Medicare for All” that has been
A Canadian academic sociologist comments on our U.S. health care system
By Louise Marie Roth
The Hill, November 16, 2018
I was in Canada this past June when I broke my wrist and had to go to the
Importance of Aligning House and Senate Single-Payer Bills the Right Way
By Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein
Health Affairs Blog, November 19, 2018
Single-payer reform is in the news — and in the U.S. House and Senate. One
Using deprivation of health care as a punishment for other social failures
By Harris Meyer
Modern Healthcare, November 15, 2018
Nearly 4,000 Arkansans lost their Medicaid expansion coverage in October because they failed to comply with the state's new