Waiting Times in the Health Sector: What Works?By Luigi Siciliani, Michael Borowitz and Valerie MoranOrganisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD), OECD Health Policy Studies,
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.
OECD report on waiting times
A well designed single payer national health program uses equitable public financing to ensure that health care is universal, administratively efficient, and reasonably comprehensive. The
"Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" provides renewal for the movement
"Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act", H.R. 676Sponsor: Rep. John Conyers, Jr., plus 40 Cosponsors (2/14/13)113th CongressTo provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for
"Expanded &; Improved Medicare For All Act" provides renewal for the movement
Congressman John Conyers has reintroduced his bill for a single payer national health program: H.R. 676, "Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act." Some perspective
Bain's for-profit methadone clinics
Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone From Bain Hits StreetBy Sydney P. FreedbergBloomberg, February 7, 2013After Jennifer Vanlieu turned to methadone treatment to beat
Where is WellPoint headed?
WellPoint Names New Chief ExecutiveBy Anna Wilde Mathews and Jon KampThe Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2013WellPoint Inc. named Joseph R. Swedish as its new
Where is WellPoint headed?
According to The Wall Street Journal, "lines between insurers and health-care providers have been increasingly blurring," a fact we already knew. The appointment of a
Who needs to know what a hip replacement costs?
Availability of Consumer Prices From US Hospitals for a Common Surgical ProcedureBy Jaime A. Rosenthal; Xin Lu, MS; Peter Cram, MD, MBAJAMA Internal Medicine, February
Who needs to know what a hip replacement costs?
There is a terrible epidemic of a mental derangement that has befouled the minds of not only those in the political, policy and academic communities,
Strength through integration?
Moody’s: Doctor integration vital to stronger hospital financesBy Sue Ter MaatAmerican Medical News, February 11, 2013For the sixth year in a row, Moody’s Investors Service
ACA health insurance tax
Tax hikes you may have forgotten aboutBy Alex Brill, research fellow, American Enterprise InstituteThe Hill, February 7, 2013When we are talking about financing our health
ACA health insurance tax
When we are talking about financing our health care system - 17 percent of our GDP - we have to get tax policy right.