AMA House of Delegates 2018 Annual Meeting, June 9-13, 2018The Medical Student Section of the American Medical Association is to be commended for advancing the
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
OMB’s Joseph Grogan acknowledges failure of volume-to-value push
Trump OMB Appointee Blasts Obama-Era Value ProgramsBy Cheryl ClarkMedPage Today, June 7, 2018The Obama-era strategy to move the healthcare system from volume to value is
Enjoy health care deflators, or would you rather be a frog?
Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019PwC, June 2018Employer-sponsored plans were the sector of health care financing that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed
Social Insurance in the Great Recession
The Great Recession worsened blood pressure and blood glucose levels in American adultsBy Teresa Seeman, Duncan Thomas, Sharon Stein Merkin, Kari Moore, Karol Watson, and
Justice Department will not defend guaranteed issue nor community rating
Justice Dept. Says Crucial Provisions of Obamacare Are UnconstitutionalBy Robert PearThe New York Times, June 7, 2018The Trump administration told a federal court on Thursday
Future physicians ask if the AMA is ready for single payer
Is this the year the AMA finally joins the single-payer movement?By Jonathan Michels, Robertha Barnes, and Sydney Russell LeedSTAT, June 8, 2018Fifty years ago this
Again, medical bankruptcy is not a myth
On March 22, 2018, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a Perspective article by Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew J
The myth of Medicare’s projected insolvency
Headlines, June 5, 2018The New York Times: Medicareās Trust Fund Is Set To Run Out In 8 Years. Social Security, 16.The Washington Post: A Crucial
Guns and Suicide
Violence Policy Center, May 2018Although we desperately need to improve our health care financing system because of its high costs and mediocre performance, leaving too
Higher spending on brand-name drugs in spite of lower use in Medicare Part D
Increases in Reimbursement for Brand-Name Drugs in Part DU.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General, June 2018What OIG Found* Total reimbursement
Instilling personal responsibility into prisoners through co-pays – another nutty idea
The $580 Co-payBy Beth SchwartzapfelThe Marshall Project, May 30, 2018For those in the outside world accustomed to paying $25 or more at every doctorās visit,
Trump administration’s false rhetoric on the social determinants of health
Social Determinants Of Health: A Public Health Concept In ConflictBy Danielle Garrett, Ann Hwang, Clare Pierce-WrobelHealth Affairs Blog, May 30, 2018The new battlefront over health