Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk SocietyBy Deborah Thorne, Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless & Katherine PorterSSRN, August 5, 2018AbstractThe social
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.
Libertarian rationale for single payer
Single payer sympathy?By John CochraneThe Grumpy Economist, July 29, 2018A July 30 2018 Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, titled "The tax and spend health
Himmelstein and Woolhandler critique the Mercatus analysis of single payer costs
The Mercatus Center's Estimate of the Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System: Ideology Masquerading as Health EconomicsBy David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler,
QOTD Addendum: RAND study of the New York Health Act
Distributed as Quote of the Day on August 1, 2018This morning the RAND study on the single payer New York Health Act was sent out
RAND analysis of the New York Health Act – a single payer proposal
RAND Corporation Study Confirms: New York Health Act "Could Expand Coverage While Reducing Total Health Spending"Richard N. Gottfried, New York Assembly District 75Chair, Assembly Health
Another payment model failure: bundling medical conditions
Evaluation of Medicare’s Bundled Payments Initiative for Medical ConditionsBy Karen E. Joynt Maddox, M.D., M.P.H., E. John Orav, Ph.D., Jie Zheng, Ph.D., and Arnold M.
The Mercatus analysis of Bernie Sanders’ single payer bill
The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare SystemBy Charles BlahousMercatus Center, July 30, 2018AbstractThis and other analyses of Senator Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act
Reducing personal medical debt
Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ AgeBy Michael Batty, Christa Gibbs, and Benedic IppolitoHealth Affairs, July 25, 2018 (published ahead of
CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s opposition to Medicare for All
This article includes videoCommonwealth Club, July 25, 2018Seema Verma: Americans enjoy the benefits of the best health care providers and innovators in the world. Yet while the volume
Taking health care reform to the election booth
KFF Health Tracking PollConducted July 17-22, 2018Thinking about the upcoming election, is a candidate’s position on "passing a national health plan in which all Americans
Locking patients out of Medigap plans
In All But Four States, Seniors on Medicare Can Be Denied a Medigap Policy Due to Pre-existing Conditions, Except During Specified Windows of OpportunityKFF, Newsroom,
CMS proposed rule: Paying the same for all office visits regardless of complexity
Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements;