By Yvette Cabrera
Los Angeles Times, February 13, 1995
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Back in the 1960s, after Mexican farm workers left the fields at each sunset,
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.
Lazes and Rudden: How frontline staff can save America’s healthcare
By Peter Lazes and Marie Rudden
The purpose of this book
As both of us have been occupied in our careers with what makes organizational systems more
H. Jack Geiger
He used medicine to take on poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear destruction. Two groups he helped start won Nobel Peace Prizes.
By Denise Grady
The
Mercy Hospital, Chicago: What does ‘losing money’ mean?
Though a state board rejected Mercy's application to close, hospital officials are working to shut down by May 31. Activists want a moratorium on hospital
Congress bashes private insurers’ antitrust exemption
By Allison Bell
ThinkAdvisor, December 22, 2020
Members of the U.S. Senate approved H.R. 1418, a bill that would repeal a partial antitrust exemption for health insurers,
Lower socioeconomic status results in poorer quality insurance choices
By Benjamin R. Handel, Jonathan T. Kolstad, Thomas Minten, and Johannes Spinnewijn
National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2020
Abstract
Market provision of impure public goods such as
Let’s eliminate the actual cause of surprise medical bills
By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, December 20, 2020
After years of being stymied by well-funded interests, Congress has agreed to ban one
Rutledge further demonstrates need for ERISA reform
U.S. Department of Labor
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established retirement
So how much do you really spend on health care?
By Anne B. Martin, Micah Hartman, David Lassman, Aaron Catlin
Health Affairs, December 16, 2020
Abstract
US health care spending increased 4.6 percent to reach $3.8 trillion in
Wharton Professor Robert Hughes advocates for universal health care
Interview of Robert Hughes, professor of business ethics and legal studies at Wharton
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Knowledge@Wharton, December 8, 2020
Nothing quite
United States once again in 11th place out of 11
By Michelle M. Doty, Roosa Tikkanen, Molly FitzGerald, Katharine Fields, and Reginald D. Williams II
The Commonwealth Fund, December 9, 2020
The Issue
As COVID-19 continues to ravage
If you chose your health plan, you may well have the wrong one
Most Americans make poor choices. So do most professional insurance brokers, a new study finds.
By Margot Sanger-Katz
The New York Times, December 11, 2020
When Paul Krugman,