By Nathan J. Robinson
Current Affairs, November 21, 2020
Everyone has health, everyone needs healthcare. It is in all of our interest to have as good of
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.
Will telemedicine improve acute care management?
Momentum is gathering for telemedicine, which could alleviate a longstanding problem: wait times.
By Austin Frakt
The New York Times, November 23, 2020
The pandemic may present an
AMA recognizes racism as a threat to public health
The AMA and its House of Delegates overwhelmingly voted for the first time to adopt policies that name and act on racism as a public
President Obama on trading off health policy for political victory
The story behind the Obama Administration’s most enduring—and most contested—legacy: Reforming American health care
By Barack Obama
The New Yorker, October 26, 2020, Published November 2, 2020
When
Patients delay care because of ‘liquidity sensitivity’ (i.e., no money in their pockets)
By Tal Gross, Timothy Layton & Daniel Prinz
National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2020
Abstract
Some consumers lack the cash needed to pay for medical care. As
Employer-sponsored defined contribution health benefits are here!
Willis Towers Watson, November 16, 2020
Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs), a new employer-sponsored health care benefit program for active employees that became available this
GAO: Private health insurance markets are increasingly concentrated
GAO, November 2020
What GAO Found
Enrollment in private health insurance plans in the individual (coverage sold directly to individuals), small group (coverage offered by small employers),
112 co-sponsors of Medicare for All were on the ballot and all won
By Christina Zhao
Newsweek, November 10, 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a possible Labor secretary candidate in President-elect Joe Biden's administration, on Tuesday said public support
Other nations get health care prices right
By Michael K. Gusmano, Miriam Laugesen, Victor G. Rodwin, and Lawrence D. Brown
Health Affairs, November 2020
Abstract
Although the US has the highest health care prices in
Does a public option bring down costs for patients? But which patients?
Healio, November 10, 2020
POINT by Benjamin Sommers, M.D., Ph.D.
Yes.
A public option can improve health care affordability with continued private insurance and better access to quality
HDHPs and HSAs are drivers of institutional racism
By Jacqueline Ellison, Paul Shafer, and Megan B. Cole
Health Affairs, November 2020
Abstract
With the rise in the share of privately insured patients covered by high-deductible health
AOC refutes centrists who blame M4A progressives for suppressing the blue tide
The same cannot be said for those more centrist lawmakers who continue to defend the nation's increasingly unpopular for-profit healthcare system.
By Jon Queally
Common Dreams, November