Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January – March 2017By Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., Michael E. Martinez, M.P.H.,
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.
Health policy reform under compromised ethics
Bending The Spending Curve By Altering Care Delivery Patterns: The Role Of Care Management Within A Pioneer ACOBy John Hsu, Mary Price, Christine Vogeli, Richard
California Speaker Anthony Rendon calls for hearings on universal health care
By Speaker Anthony RendonCalifornia State Assembly, August 24, 2017Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) today announced that Dr. Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) and Dr. Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg),
What about Sen. Brian Schatz’s proposal for a Medicaid buy-in?
We asked 7 experts about Sen. Brian Schatz’s big new Medicaid buy-in planBy Jeff Stein and Dylan ScottVox, August 23, 2017In a recent interview, Sen.
For-profit hospitals adopt technology based on medical arms race rather than medical need
NBER Working Paper No. 23530: The Role of Hospital and Market Characteristics in Invasive Cardiac Service DiffusionBy Jill R. Horwitz, Charleen Hsuan, Austin NicholsNational Bureau
AAFP Board promoting Medicare Advantage buy-in
To: The Honorable Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader and The Honorable Charles Schumer, Minority Leader, United States SenateFrom: Wanda D. Filer, MD, MBA, FAAFP, AAFP Board
The most important change in our opinion on health reform
Public Opinion about the Future of the Affordable Care ActBy Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., and John M. Benson, M.A.The New England Journal of Medicine, August
Last chance to comment on MACRA Quality Payment Program rule
Proposed Rule for Quality Payment Program Year 2CMS Fact SheetThe Quality Payment Program, established under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA),
Himmelstein & Woolhandler, and Hellander respond to The Nation’s Holland on single payer
Medicare-for-All Isn’t the Solution for Universal Health CareBy Joshua HollandThe Nation, August 2, 2017(Excerpts)Within the broad Democratic coalition, it’s pretty clear that the discussion of
KHN: Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health Care
Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health CareBy Rachel BluthKaiser Health News, August 16, 2017Single-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the U.S., but a
Physicians support single payer, but how strongly?
Survey: 42% of Physicians Strongly Support a Single Payer Healthcare System, 35% are Strongly OpposedBy Phillip MillerMerritt Hawkins, August 14, 2017A plurality of physicians strongly
Subsidizing health insurance cannot ever get us to universal coverage
NBER Working Paper 23668: Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from MassachusettsBy Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendren, and Mark ShepardNational Bureau of Economic Research, August