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Quote of the Day

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.

As it was, and how it needs to be

Posted December 31, 2020

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,

Lazes and Rudden: How frontline staff can save America’s healthcare

Posted December 30, 2020

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

Posted December 29, 2020

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?

Posted December 28, 2020

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

Posted December 23, 2020

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

Posted December 22, 2020

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

Posted December 21, 2020

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

Posted December 18, 2020

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?

Posted December 17, 2020

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

Posted December 16, 2020

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

Posted December 15, 2020

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

Posted December 14, 2020

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,

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