Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health ProfessionalsBy Rachel R. Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Eduardo M. Medina, M.D., M.P.H., and Katy B.
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.
CMS pilot program for judging breadth of narrow networks
How Narrow Is It? Gov’t Begins Test Of Comparison Tool For Health Plan NetworksBy Michelle AndrewsKaiser Health News, October 14, 2016One of the major concerns
UnitedHealth absconding with patients’ excessive drug co-payments
Customers sue UnitedHealth over prescription drug co-pay costsBy Brendan PiersonReuters, October 5, 2016UnitedHealth Group Inc has been sued by three customers who accused the largest
Middlemen take rebates, driving up drug prices
Secret Rebates: Why Patients Pay $600 for Drugs That Cost $300By Robert LangrethBloomberg, October 5, 2016Behind the scenes, drugmakers gave insurers and benefit managers more
Gerald Kominski describes the real-world public option
What Would A Public Insurance Option Look Like In California?By Pauline BartoloneCalifornia Healthline, October 11, 2016The “public option,” which stoked fierce debate in the run-up
How great is California’s Obamacare success?
So you think Obamacare is a disaster? Here's how California is proving you wrongBy Noam N. LeveyLos Angeles Times, October 7, 2016Even as turmoil in
Under a multi-payer system, churning is inevitable and bad for your health
Insurance Churning Rates For Low-Income Adults Under Health Reform: Lower Than Expected But Still Harmful For ManyBy Benjamin D. Sommers, Rebecca Gourevitch, Bethany Maylone, Robert
Sen. John Marty’s “Healing Health Care”
The Case for a Commonsense Universal Health SystemBy John MartyMNHealthPlan.org, October 2016During my 30 years in the Minnesota Senate, I have seen firsthand the failure
Canadian Medicare on trial
Could this be the beginning of the end for the Canadian single-payer system?By Danielle MartinDEMOCRACY, October 3, 2016There’s an old joke that Canadians like to
Harvard’s shameful stance on insurance for low-income employees
Harvard’s low-income workers deserve affordable health insuranceBy Micah Johnson and Sanjay KishoreSTAT, September 30, 2016There’s an outbreak of a hidden epidemic — unaffordable employer-based health
Ask Minnesota if the individual insurance market is stable
Individual health plan premiums to jump at least 50 percent in Minn.By Christopher SnowbeckStarTribune, September 30, 2016Health insurers are hiking premiums and limiting enrollment in
How would a Medicare buy-in and a public option be designed?
Designing a Medicare Buy-In and a Public Plan Marketplace OptionBy Linda J. Blumberg and John HolahanUrban Institute, September 2016There is considerable enthusiasm for expanding on