Out-of-Pocket Costs, Financial Distress, and Underinsurance in Cancer CareBy Fumiko Chino, MD; Jeffrey M. Peppercorn, MD, MPH; Christel Rushing, MS; S. Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS;
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.
Medi-Cal violates civil rights
California talks big on health, but so few docs take Medi-Cal that it violates civil rightsBy Bill Lann LeeThe Sacramento Bee, August 9, 2017California draws
Staff burnout in federally qualified health centers
Federally Qualified Health Center Clinicians And Staff Increasingly Dissatisfied With Workplace ConditionsBy Mark W. Friedberg, Rachel O. Reid, Justin W. Timbie, Claude Setodji, Aaron Kofner,
Anthem issues policy threatening nonpayment for ’nonemergency’ ED visits
Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, May 11, 2017Save the ER for emergencies — Or you’ll be responsible for the costGoing to the emergency room or calling 9-1-1
Paul Krugman loses his way on the incremental path to reform
What’s Next for Progressives?By Paul KrugmanThe New York Times, August 7, 2017For now, at least, the attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears dead.
The bipartisan compromise: cheap, worthless plans
Bipartisan moves to steady insurance market face same old conflicts over regulationBy Harris MeyerModern Healthcare, August 3, 2017Democrats and a growing number of Republicans are
The rhetoric of payer-provider relationships, but where’s the patient?
Health reform driving payer-provider partnershipsBy Les MastersonHealthcare Dive, August 2, 2017Payers and providers have for decades stayed in their silos, leading to a more fractured
Tom Price is taking care of physicians rather than patients
With Tom Price in charge, doctors are winning again in WashingtonBy Erin MershonSTAT, August 1, 2017As the Senate was barrelling toward one of its votes
Medicare Value-Based Payment Program penalizes more dedicated physicians
Association of Practice-Level Social and Medical Risk With Performance in the Medicare Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier ProgramBy Lena M. Chen, MD, MS; Arnold M. Epstein,
Single payer vs. universal public coverage through managed competition
Universal Health Coverage? Why?By Walter McClure, Alain Enthoven, and Tim McDonaldHealth Affairs Blog, July 25, 2017The Congressional health care debate has become a war between
The obvious Obamacare replacement, but when?
The obvious Obamacare replacement has been here all alongBy John GaramendiThe Sacramento Bee, July 27, 2017The ongoing uncertainty in Congress surrounding health care legislation, and
Senate defeats single payer amendment
By Don McCanne, M.D.United States Senate, July 27, 2017In the Senate an amendment to the Republican repeal and replace legislation was introduced by Sen. Steve