Catastrophic Health Expenditure Risk Among Uninsured Trauma Patients in the United StatesBy Scott, John W. M.D., M.P.H.; Raykar, Nakul P. M.D., M.P.H.; Rose, John A.
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.
What single payer means to an Alaskan fisherman with breast cancer
By Malena MarvinMedium, April 17, 2017If you haven’t had a chronic illness while self-employed, the term “single payer” might not mean much to you. Let
Physician and patient churning in ACOs
Substantial Physician Turnover And Beneficiary ‘Churn’ In A Large Medicare Pioneer ACOBy John Hsu, Christine Vogeli, Mary Price, Richard Brand, Michael E. Chernew, Namita Mohta,
Inappropriate medical debt collection
Medical Debt MalpracticeUnited States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), April 11, 2017Millions of Americans are contacted by debt collectors every year over debt related
Elisabeth Rosenthal: ‘An American Sickness’
How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It BackBy Elisabeth RosenthalPenguin Random House, April 2017From the IntroductionEveryone knows the healthcare system is
CMS final rule benefits insurers, not patients
CMS issues final rule to increase choices and encourage stability in health insurance market for 2018Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, April 13, 2017The Centers
MedPAC questions effectiveness of MACRA’s MIPS
Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Faith-Based SolutionsBy Kip Sullivan JDThe Health Care Blog, April 11, 2017It’s official: the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has at long last
The surge of desktop medicine
Electronic Health Record Logs Indicate That Physicians Split Time Evenly Between Seeing Patients And Desktop MedicineBy Ming Tai-Seale, Cliff W. Olson, Jinnan Li, Albert S.
Watch out! Here comes Stephen Parente
ACA critic Stephen Parente nominated as HHS deputy secretaryBy Dave BarkholzModern Healthcare, April 10, 2017Stephen Parente, a healthcare economist, has been nominated to be HHS'
Conservative roadmap for improving AHCA
CBO Provides A Roadmap For Improving AHCABy Joseph Antos and James Capretta, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)Health Affairs Blog, April 4, 2017The future of the American
The Lancet Series on ‘America: Equity and Equality in Health’
Editorial: America, all things not being equalThe Lancet, April 8, 2017For those looking for something to read this weekend, you couldn’t do better than this
It’s not just Democrats and liberals who support Medicare for all
The Economist/YouGov Poll, April 2-4, 201781. Opinion on health reforms – Expanding Medicare to provide health insurance to every AmericanPercent who favor strongly or favor