Right Care SeriesThe Lancet, January 8, 2017Considering the amount of money we spend on health care in the United States, we should be making special
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.
Obama to Republicans: Show me a better plan
Remarks by the President in Vox Live InterviewBy Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff of VoxThe White House, Office of the Press Secretary, January 6, 2017Excerpts
President Obama on repealing ACA without replacement
Repealing the ACA without a Replacement — The Risks to American Health CareBy Barack H. Obama, J.D.The New England Journal of Medicine, January 6, 2017The
The Health Care Plan Trump Voters Really Want
By Drew AltmanThe New York Times, January 5, 2017This week Republicans in Congress began their effort to repeal and potentially replace the Affordable Care Act.
Look who says health care is a right
Health Care in the United States: A Right or a PrivilegeBy Howard Bauchner, M.D., Editor in Chief, JAMAJAMA, Editorial, January 3, 2017Did you get that?
Congress stumbles in its effort to abandon ethics
House Republicans Back Down on Bid to Gut Ethics OfficeBy Eric Lipton and Matt FlegenheimerThe New York Times, January 3, 2017House Republicans, facing a storm
A slightly different end-of-year request
Dear Quote of the Day list members,Your email inboxes are no doubt inundated with end-of-year requests for donations “to keep this publication going” or whatever.This
Dr. Samuel Shem understands
He’d take single payer health care over PartnersBy Samuel Shem, M.D.Boston Globe, Letters, December 29, 2016RE “FIRST, do no harm” by David Torchiana, president and
Top 10 challenges facing physicians in 2017
By Jeff Bendix, Charlotte Huff, Rose Schneider Krivich, Chris Mazzolini, Mary Pratt, Todd ShryockMedical Economics, December 25, 2016For the fourth consecutive year, Medical Economics reveals
Improving health care for the homeless
Improving Health Care for Homeless PeopleBy Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH; James J. O’Connell, MDJAMA, December 27, 2016Many of us are concerned about the unmet
Republicans’ deceptive concept of ‘universal access’
G.O.P. Plans to Replace Health Care Law With ‘Universal Access’By Robert Pear and Thomas KaplanThe New York Times, December 15, 2016House Republicans, responding to criticism
Iowa’s Medicaid managed care disaster
Don't pay managed care firms a penny moreBy the Editorial BoardThe Des Moines Register, December 22, 2016Iowa’s Medicaid program was operated by the state for