Here's the Alexander-Murray billBy Caitlin OwensAxios, October 17, 2017S.___ A bill to stabilize individual market premiums for the 2018 and 2019 plan years and provide
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.
Growth of underinsurance now rampant in employer-sponsored plans
How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs?By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, Michelle M. DotyThe Commonwealth Fund, October 18, 2017When
UnitedHealth celebrates Trump’s executive order
Top U.S. Health Insurer to Look at Trump Obamacare AlternativesBy Zachary TracerBloomberg, October 16, 2017UnitedHealth Group Inc., the U.S.’s biggest health insurer, said it’s excited
The pecuniary distortion of limited networks
NBER Working Paper 23742: Equilibrium Provider Networks: Bargaining and Exclusion in Health Care MarketsBy Kate Ho and Robin S. LeeNational Bureau of Economic Research, August
Trump’s abrupt termination of cost-sharing reductions
Trump Administration Takes Action to Abide by the Law and Constitution, Discontinue CSR PaymentsU.S. Department of Health & Human Services, October 12, 2017U.S. Health and
Guns
Death by Gun Violence — A Public Health CrisisBy Howard Bauchner, MD (1); Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH (2); Robert O. Bonow, MD, MS (3);
Bain & Company on the absence of ‘a compelling way forward’
2017 US Front Line of Healthcare SurveyBain & CompanyThe US healthcare industry is still in search of a cure—a breakthrough model that can deliver high-quality
Cost-sharing payments have far outpaced wage growth
Increases in cost-sharing payments have far outpaced wage growthBy Gary Claxton, Larry Levitt, Michelle Long and Erik Blumenkranz Kaiser Family Foundation, Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker,
Why cost sharing should be abandoned
Down With the CopayBy Natalie ShureJacobin, October 6, 2017In the week preceding the release of Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill, the Vermont senator’s office
MedPAC will recommend repeal of MIPS
MIPS Takes a Beating at MedPACBy Shannon FirthMedPage Today, October 5, 2017The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) should be spiked, virtually all members of the
Paying for CHIP with means-tested Medicare Parts B and D premiums
Bill to Rescue Children’s Health Program Hits Snag in HouseBy Robert PearThe New York Times, October 4, 2017Legislation to rescue the Children’s Health Insurance Program
Taking a knee for single payer – a fantasy
The Choice Between Kneeling and WinningBy David LeonhardtThe New York Times, October 2, 2017Symbols matter in politics. They often matter more than the detailed arguments