Mayo to give preference to privately insured patients over Medicaid patientsBy Jeremy OlsonStarTribune, March 15, 2017Mayo Clinic’s chief executive made a startling announcement in 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.
CRISIS IN U.S. HEALTH CARE: Corporate Power vs. The Common Good
By John Geyman, M.D.March 15, 2017Excerpts from the PrefaceThere is widespread acknowledgement today that our current health care system is dysfunctional and broken, and I
Trump: One protester (but what a protester!)
Meet the protester who interrupted Trump's rallyBy Kirk A. BadoThe Tennessean, March 15, 2017Trump: "OK, let’s go. One person and they will be the story
CBO analysis of Republican replacement legislation
Cost Estimate: American Health Care ActCongressional Budget Office, March 13, 2017The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have
Why are they attacking Medicaid?
The American Health Care Act And Medicaid: Changing A Half-Century Federal-State PartnershipBy Sara RosenbaumHealth Affairs Blog, March 10, 2017In the past most conservatives have agreed
Nobel laureate Angus Deaton supports single payer
Nobel economist takes aim at rent-seeking banking and healthcare industriesBy Greg RobbMarketWatch, March 6, 2017Income inequality is not killing capitalism in the United States, but
PNHP’s open letter to President Trump
An Open Letter To Trump: The GOP Health Plan Won’t Work, Replace ACA With Single PayerThe Huffington Post, March 9, 2017Dear Mr. President,President Trump was
PNHP on GOP’s re-branded and far meaner version of ACA
Doctors group: House GOP health plan is re-branded and far meaner version of ACAThe 'American Health Care Act' perpetuates the basic structure of the Affordable
Timothy Jost explains the GOP repeal and replace legislation
Examining The House Republican ACA Repeal And Replace LegislationBy Timothy JostHealth Affairs Blog, March 7, 2017That's enough. Single payer.
‘Financial counselors’ add to administrative overload in health care
Got health insurance? That doesn’t mean you’ll be able to pay your medical bills.By John MurawskiMcClatchy DC Bureau, March 4, 2017Hospitals around the country are
What did Jesus really say?
Two months ago, this doctor was delivering babies. Now he’s at the nexus of the Obamacare fightBy Lev FacherSTAT, March 3, 2017Dr. Roger Marshall was
Affordability continues to deteriorate; CALL FOR ACTION!
Polling Data Note: Beyond the ACA, the Affordability of Insurance Has Been Deteriorating Since 2015Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2, 2017The debate about the future of