The biggest health issue we aren’t debatingBy Drew AltmanAxios, November 22, 2017Thanksgiving is always a time to think about those in need. How about, then,
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.
Beware the ‘Grand Bargain’ in health reform
Beyond Showmanship And Spite: Toward A Health Care “Grand Bargain”By Gregg Bloche & David A. HymanHealth Affairs Blog, November 20, 2017Is a deal on health
Medicare Advantage plans using ‘service-level selection’ to cheat the taxpayers
NBER Working Paper 24038; Service-level Selection: Strategic Risk Selection in Medicare Advantage in Response to Risk AdjustmentBy Sungchul Park, Anirban Basu, Norma Coe, and Fahad
Heading in the wrong direction on Medicare
Older Americans Were Sicker And Faced More Financial Barriers To Health Care Than Counterparts In Other CountriesBy Robin Osborn, Michelle M. Doty, Donald Moulds, Dana
Reduce Medicaid spending? Look at Puerto Rico
Capping Medicaid Funding — Lessons From Puerto RicoBy Krista M. Perreira PhD, David K. Jones PhD, and Jonathan Oberlander PhDAmerican Journal of Public Health, December
Uwe Reinhardt
"The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover it all.
Kip Sullivan: Practicing medicine while black
Practicing Medicine While BlackBy Kip Sullivan, J.D.The Health Care Blog, November 9, 2017There are many problems in our health care system. There are many problems
Narrow networks benefit insurers, not patients
Kept in the Dark About Doctors, but Having to Pick a Health PlanBy Austin FraktThe New York Times, November 13, 2017When you select a health
Koch brothers’ ideology trumps veterans
With Obamacare Fight Lost, Conservatives Turn to Veterans’ CareBy Nicholas FandosThe New York Times, November 9, 2017With their hopes of repealing the Affordable Care Act
Sluggish savings under accountable care organizations
Explaining Sluggish Savings under Accountable CareBy Valerie A. Lewis, Ph.D., Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., and Carrie H. Colla, Ph.D.The New England Journal of Medicine,
Adam Gaffney on the right to health
TO HEAL HUMANKIND: The Right to Health in HistoryBy Adam Gaffney, M.D.From the IntroductionThere is much discussion today about the right to health care. Adam
Inequity of means-testing federal health benefits
NBER Working Paper No. 23990; Means-Testing Federal Health Entitlement BenefitsBy Andrew SamwickNational Bureau of Economic Research, November 2017AbstractThis paper is important because it demonstrates the
