Pathways To Success: A New Start For Medicare’s Accountable Care OrganizationsBy Seema VermaHealth Affairs Blog, August 9, 2018For many years we have heard health 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.
Half of people in fair to poor health are uninsured or struggle with affordability
It's not just the uninsured — it's also the cost of health careBy Drew AltmanAxios, August 20, 2018Share under age 65 who were uninsured or
Not even CalPERS can guarantee that you can keep your doctor
14,000 CalPERS members and their families need to find a new 2019 health plan. Here’s why.By Hannah HolzerThe Sacramento Bee, August 15, 2018Changes at California’s
Jonathan Chait tells us single payer is not easy
Pretending Single Payer Health Care Is Easy to Pass Doesn’t Make It EasyBy Jonathan ChaitNew York Magazine, Daily Intelligencer, August 16, 2018The American health care
Is it about measurement or is it about patient care?
Achieving Meaningful Measurement In MedicareBy Aparna Higgins, Mark McClellanHealth Affairs Blog. August 15, 2018These days it seems that the policy community is deeply involved in
Medicare Advantage as the true Medicare? Rhetoric won’t make it so
Creating Medicare Advantage Premium Support For All, Part 5: Which Proposal Is Actually Medicare?By Billy WynneHealth Affairs Blog, August 15, 2018Now that a report funded
Irrationality of work requirements for Medicaid
The Relationship Between Work and Health: Findings from a Literature ReviewBy Larisa Antonisse and Rachel GarfieldKaiser Family Foundation, August 7, 2018SummaryHeath care financing programs should
Let’s get it right: Medicare for All is a huge bargain
Single Payer Is Actually a Huge BargainBy Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Adam Gaffney, M.D.The Nation, August 10, 2018It is an
NYT Opinion Newsletter: Why America needs Medicare for All
By Meagan Day and Bhaskar SunkaraThe New York Times, Opinion Today, August 10, 2018A growing majority of Americans agree: Health care shouldn’t be a business.
ACA subsidies cost more per person than Medicaid
ACA subsidies cost more per person than Medicaid. Is that sustainable?By Susannah LuthiModern Healthcare, August 8, 2018Government spending on Obamacare premiums has raced past its
Immigrants’ health care and the misuse of the ‘public charge’ rule
Medical Expenditures on and by Immigrant Populations in the United States: A Systematic ReviewBy Lila Flavin, Leah Zallman, Danny McCormick, and J. Wesley BoydInternational Journal
Large firms offering HSAs is not enough
High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollment Increased From 2006 To 2016, Employer-Funded Accounts Grew In Largest FirmsBy G. Edward Miller, Jessica P. Vistnes, Frederick Rohde, and Patricia