Myth and Measurement — The Case of Medical BankruptciesBy Carlos Dobkin, Ph.D., Amy Finkelstein, Ph.D., Raymond Kluender, B.S., and Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Ph.D.The New England
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.
High US drug prices are not due to other nations’ free riding
Trump blames free riding foreign states for high US drug pricesBy Donald W Light, Arthur L CaplanBMJ, March 16, 2018Why are drug prices in the
Impact of prior authorization on patients and physicians
2017 AMA Prior Authorization Physician SurveySurvey conducted December, 2017Patient ImpactAverage wait time for PA responsesQ: In the last week, how long on average did you
The Economist: Rent seeking in America’s health care system
Which firms profit most from America’s health-care systemThe Economist, Schumpeter, March 15, 2018Every year America spends about $5,000 more per person on health care than
Andy Slavitt gives his candid views on single payer
Perspectives from Former CMS Administrators: The Path ForwardHealthcare Costs Innovation SummitWest Health, February 21, 2018It is reassuring to see what Slavitt's candid views are in
Why is health care spending in the United States so much greater?
Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income CountriesBy Irene Papanicolas, Ph.D.; Liana R. Woskie, M.Sc.; Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H.JAMA, March 13,
California ‘Select Committee’ report has important lessons for the U.S.
Single-payer bill all but dead this year as California lawmakers craft new health packageBy Angels HartThe Sacramento Bee, March 13, 2018California Democratic lawmakers are quietly
Michigan Medicine selling queue jumping to the wealthy
Exclusive U-M medical plan buys you 'better' care, special accessBy David JesseDetroit Free Press, March 9, 2018Michigan Medicine — the health system owned by the
Can we do something about the forthcoming high premium increases?
Individual Markets Nationally Face High Premium Increases in Coming Years Absent Federal or State Action, With Wide Variation Among StatesCovered California, March 8, 2018This Covered
More about the crisis of lack of interoperability
A private health care information technology systemBy Don McCanne, M.D.Physicians for a National Health Program, Quote of the Day, July 21, 2004***Yesterday's message discussed the
Our incompetent stewards for health IT interoperability
‘We took a broken system and just broke it completely’By Arthur AllenPOLITICO, March 8, 2018President Donald Trump last year hailed a multibillion-dollar initiative to create
White House memo on ‘Obamacare Relief Provisions’
White House pitch to bolster Obamacare includes tough trade-offs for DemocratsBy Paul DemkoPOLITICO, March 6, 2018The White House is seeking a package of conservative policy