Consumer Costs Continue to Increase in 2017 ExchangesBy Caroline F. Pearson, Elizabeth Carpenter and Chris SloanAvalere, January 18, 2017Plans sold in exchange markets in 2017
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.
H.R. 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, reintroduced
Doctors hail reintroduction of Medicare-for-all billSaying status quo is 'unacceptable' and GOP plans even worse, physicians group says it's time to move forward to single-payer
Under ACA, too many with chronic disease still left out
Coverage and Access for Americans With Chronic Disease Under the Affordable Care Act: A Quasi-Experimental StudyBy Hugo Torres, MD, MPH; Elisabeth Poorman, MD, MPH; Uma
Correcting the WP Fact Checker on the mortality rate of becoming uninsured
Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annuallyBy David Himmelstein and Steffie WoolhandlerThe Washington Post, January 23, 2017Fact Checkers sometimes traverse
Important RAND study of single payer and other options for Oregon
Oregon faces obstacles expanding health insurance to all residents, study findsBy RAND CorporationMedical Xpress, January 19, 2017Researchers from the RAND Corporation and Health Management Associates
Harris Poll on profits and ethics in health care
Only Nine Percent of U.S. Consumers Believe Pharma and Biotechnology Put Patients over Profits; Only 16 Percent Believe Health Insurers DoThe Harris Poll, January 17,
Pew poll confirms support of government responsibility in health care
More Americans say government should ensure health care coverageBy Kristen BialikPew Research Center, January 13, 2017As the debate continues over repeal of the Affordable Care
CBO update of estimates of premiums and coverage under repeal of ACA
How Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage and PremiumsCongressional Budget Office, January 2017So far Congress has initiated a process
What would Martin Luther King Jr say?
By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Medical Committee for Human Rights, March 25, 1966"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking
High premiums in non-group insurance markets
Identifying Causes and Possible RemediesBy Linda J. Blumberg and John HolahanUrban Institute, January 2017The IssueThe authors note that premiums are not high in all areas,
What would states do with greater flexibility through Medicaid block grants?
Both State, Feds May Seek Changes To MedicaidBy Shamane MillsWisconsin Public Radio, January 11, 2017Wisconsin hopes to change Medicaid in several ways. The Walker administration
Social risk factors and performance measurements
Report to Congress: Social Risk Factors and Performance Under Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing ProgramsUnited States Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for
