More than half of Indiana's alternative Medicaid recipients didn't make payment required for top serviceBy Maureen GroppeIndyStar, May 8, 2017More than half the low-income people
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Charlie Munger supports single payer reform
Charlie Munger says single-payer healthcare is the solutionBy Andy SerwerYahoo Finance, May 7, 2017Charlie Munger says that single-payer healthcare is the answer to fix the
Physicians shouldering more of patientsā cost sharing
As Patients Take On More Costs, Will Providers Shoulder The Burden?By Michael Chernew and Jonathan BushHealth Affairs Blog, May 4, 2017The increasing prevalence and magnitude
Vote on the American Health Care Act
House of Representatives, May 4, 2017Yea: 217Nay: 213***Comment:By Don McCanne, M.D.Fulfilling a rhetorical election promise was more important to conservative members of Congress than is
A fiscally conservative businessman says single payer would be better
Why Iām finally ready to agree a single-payer healthcare system would be better for businessBy Gene MarksThe Washington Post, April 28, 2017My wife is English
Expanding coverage under ACA did not reduce access for the continuously insured
By Salam Abdus and Steven C. HillHealth Affairs, May 2017AbstractOne concern about the increases in the numbers of people insured as a result of implementation
Insurers use āmedical loss ratiosā to cheat us
NBER Working Paper No. 23353; Cost of Service Regulation in U.S. Health Care: Minimum Medical Loss RatiosBy Steve Cicala, Ethan M.J. Lieber, and Victoria MaroneNational
Entitlement reform under growing gap in life expectancy
NBER Working Paper 23329; How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and ReformsBy Alan J. Auerbach, Kerwin K. Charles, Courtney C.
Giving up choice of physicians while paying more for choice of insurance
Where Does the Health Insurance Premium Dollar Go?By Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D.The JAMA Forum, April 25, 2017In early March, Americaās Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national
Lessons from Canada on block grants
Medicaid Block Grants and Federalism; Lessons From CanadaBenjamin D. Sommers, M.D., Ph.D.; C. David Naylor, M.D., D.Phil.JAMA, April 25, 2017Republican leaders are proposing a fundamental
What one expensive patient teaches us about risk pooling
This one unbelievably expensive Iowa patient makes the case for single-payer healthcareBy Michael HiltzikLos Angeles Times, April 24, 2017Back in mid-2016, Iowa customers of Wellmark
Paul Song: What is California to do?
Californiaās Golden Healthcare OpportunityBy Paul Y. Song, M.D.The Huffington Post, April 24, 2017The Affordable Care Act (ACA) commonly known as Obamacare expanded healthcare coverage to