America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for CrowdfundingBy Suzanne WoolleyBloomberg, June 12, 2017Crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and YouCaring have turned sympathy for Americans
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.
New provider-sponsored health plans provide lessons on the medical-industrial complex
Analysis of Integrated Delivery Systems and New Provider-Sponsored Health PlansBy Allan Baumgarten, LLCRobert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2017Arnold “Bud” Relman long ago famously warned us
A future for affordable health care
The Cost Curve Is Bending, but Not for All of UsBy Don McCanne, M.D.Physicians for a National Health Program, March 21, 2013It seems ridiculous that
Nevada legislature passes Medicaid buy-in
Nevada Is Considering a Revolutionary Health-Care ExperimentBy Ed KilgoreNew York, June 6, 2017Many single payer supporters who have become impatient waiting for enactment of a
Credible statistics on the financial barriers of high deductible health plans
High-deductible Health Plans and Financial Barriers to Medical Care: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2016By Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., and
Americans acknowledge health care disparities but are divided on concerns about fairness
The United States Leads Other Nations In Differences By Income In Perceptions Of Health And Health CareBy Joachim O. Hero, Alan M. Zaslavsky and Robert
If you understand normative economics, you’ll understand single payer
A Tax Cut Might Be Nice. But Remember the Deficit.By N. Gregory MankiwThe New York Times, June 2, 2017In the debate about federal tax policy,
Americans support including long-term care under Medicare
Long-Term Care in America: Views on Who Should Bear the Responsibility and Costs of CareThe Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, May 2017Americans fear
Excess emergency department charges for uninsured and out-of-network care
Variation in Emergency Department vs Internal Medicine Excess Charges in the United StatesBy Tim Xu, MD, MPP; Angela Park; Ge Bai, PhD, CPA; et alJAMA
California’s single payer bill would reduce costs for most businesses and households
Economic Analysis of the Healthy California Single-Payer Health Care Proposal (SB-562)By Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Peter Arno, and Jeannette Wicks-LimPolitical Economy Research Institute (PERI), University
CMS Administrator Verma is further privatizing enrollment in insurance exchanges
Consumer Advocates Wary Of New Marketplace Rules For BrokersBy Michelle AndrewsKaiser Health News, May 30, 2017CMS Administrator Seema Verma is expanding the role of private
Robert Borosage on paving the way to Medicare for All
Will the Republican Health-Care Debacle Pave the Way for ‘Medicare far All’?By Robert L. BorosageThe Nation, May 25, 2017With the backlash against the Republicans for