Challenges in Estimating the Number of People With Nongroup Health Insurance Coverage Under Proposals for Refundable Tax CreditsBy Susan Yeh Beyer and Jared MaedaCongressional Budget
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.
Forty percent churn in the ACA exchanges
Member Turnover Challenges Public Exchange MarketsBy Jose DiazExpress Scripts, December 20, 2016Each year forty percent of enrollees leave the insurance exchanges established by the Affordable
Ethics of CMS experiment on special enrollment
Fact Sheet: Pre-Enrollment Verification for Special Enrollment PeriodsCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), December 2016The policy community has gone out of its way to
Frakt: Don’t expect much from price transparency
Price Transparency Is Nice. Just Don’t Expect It to Cut Health Costs.By Austin FraktThe New York Times, December 19, 2016Lack of price transparency in health
Froma Harrop on Obamacare repeal
Democrats should let GOP own Obamacare repealBy Froma HarropHerald Net, December 13, 2016What if Republicans abruptly repealed Obamacare, chaos ensued and Democrats sat on their
Surprise out-of-network bills are common
One In Five Inpatient Emergency Department Cases May Lead To Surprise BillsBy Christopher Garmon and Benjamin ChartockHealth Affairs, December 14, 2016AbstractThere has been considerable publicity
False cures in the Cures Act
Congress Just Quietly Handed Drug Companies a Dangerous VictoryBy Adam GaffneyNew Republic, December 14, 2016We did not have to wait for the incoming, anti-government administration
Policies to help individuals choose the best health plan
Working Paper 22917; Improving the Quality of Choice in Health Insurance MarketsBy Jason Abaluck and Jonathan GruberNational Bureau of Economic Research, December 2016AbstractSuperficially this seems
How beneficial is rigorous health policy research?
What’s The Story With Obamacare?By Katherine Baicker and Amy FinkelsteinHealth Affairs Blog, December 9, 2016Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein are correct. Rigorous policy research can
We’re heading for the wrong debate on reform
New Coalition Will Push Back on Repeal of Obama Health LawBy The Associated PressThe New York Times, December 9, 2016Supporters of the 2010 health care
Obama’s tepid palliation for America’s health scourges
The Obama Years: Tepid Palliation for America’s Health ScourgesBy Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David U. Himmelstein, MDAmerican Journal of Public Health (AJPH), January 2017President
Timothy Jost provides the facts behind the policy options for ACA reform
Taking Stock Of Health Reform: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re GoingBy Timothy JostHealth Affairs Blog, December 6, 2016There will likely be considerable heat in the