By CBO’s Single-Payer Health Care Systems Team
Congressional Budget Office, December 2020
Abstract
In this paper, CBO describes the methods it has developed to analyze the federal budgetary
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.
Stuart Butler’s proposal for an equitable national health system
By Stuart M. Butler
Brookings, December 9, 2020
SUMMARY
The American health system is rife with gaps and inequities. The result is inadequate or no insurance and services
American Hospital Association on commercial health plan abuses
American Hospital Association, December 2020
Introduction
Health care coverage has never been more important as the nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic – now and for the foreseeable
Bob Hess Sr.
By Emilie Raguso
Berkeleyside, December 5, 2020
Bob Hess Sr., an iconic figure in the world of Bay Area horse racing, died Saturday morning after being diagnosed
What does the Becerra HHS nomination do for Medicare for All?
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D. Shear
The New York Times, December 6, 2020
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Xavier Becerra, the Democratic attorney
Fragmented health systems: The misalignment between global health security and universal health coverage
By Arush Lal, M.Sc.; Ngozi A Erondu, Ph.D.; David L Heymann, M.D.; Githinji Gitahi, M.D.; Robert Yates, M.B.A.
The Lancet, December 1, 2020
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has
Why have a policy that excludes same-sex spouses from coverage?
By Lindsey Dawson, Matthew Rae, and Jennifer Kates
KFF, November 30, 2020
Background
The legal and policy landscape regarding protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity in
We can do better than international reference pricing for drugs
By Anirban Basu, Peter J. Neumann, Sean Sullivan
Health Affairs Blog, December 2, 2020
Pharmaceutical pricing is a perpetually contentious policy issue. Branded drug list prices grew
Have high deductibles slowed spending growth?
By Claudio Lucarelli, Molly Frean, Aliza S. Gordon, Lynn M. Hua, and Mark Pauly
National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2020
Abstract
The growth of health care spending
Message from PNHP President Susan Rogers on our vision for the future
PNHP, November 30, 2020
Dear single-payer supporter,
While the dust settles from the elections, many PNHP members are thinking about what the coming year means for Medicare
Vermont Medical Society endorses single payer
By Clare Fauke
PNHP, November 23, 2020
The Vermont Medical Society (VMS) overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution supporting a single-payer national health program, also known as Medicare for
Fauci Awards: Special thanks on this Thanksgiving Day
Video by Adam Westbrook and Emily Holzknecht
The New York Times, November 25, 2020
The Fauci Awards (6 minute video):
https://www.nytimes.com...
Comment:
By Don McCanne, M.D.
As a resident of Orange