From HMOs to ACOs: The Quest for the Holy Grail in U.S. Health PolicyBy Theodore Marmor, PhD and Jonathan Oberlander, PhDJournal of General Internal Medicine,
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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.
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Marmor and Oberlander – Controlling costs through emulation, not innovation
Why have we spent decades trying to circumvent the obvious? We need to emulate the health care policies that do work in other nations, and
Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” – good people divided by politics
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and ReligionBy Jonathan HaidtPantheon BooksWe can define moral capital as the resources that sustain a
Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" – good people divided by politics
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and ReligionBy Jonathan HaidtPantheon BooksWe can define moral capital as the resources that sustain a
Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" – good people divided by politics
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, in "The Righteous Mind," provides us with a background on the evolution and development of the moral matrices that have contributed
Moving reform from the impossible to the inevitable
200th Anniversary Article: Major Trends in the U.S. Health Economy since 1950By Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.DThe New England Journal of Medicine, March 15, 2012Victor Fuchs
Moving reform from the impossible to the inevitable
Victor Fuchs tells us, "There is no public consensus about how much care should be provided for the poor and sick or how it should
U.S. health policy in a single cartoon
From Dr. Don McCanne, MDIn a single cartoon, Politico's Matt Wuerker demonstrates the U.S. health care system as it is, and as it should be.Click
U.S. health policy in a single cartoon
In a single cartoon, Politico's Matt Wuerker demonstrates the U.S. health care system as it is, and as it should be.
Click on this Kaiser Health
Landmark study of spending and quality in Ontario hospitals
Association of Hospital Spending Intensity With Mortality and Readmission Rates in Ontario HospitalsBy Therese A. Stukel, PhD; Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH; David A. Alter,
Landmark study of spending and quality in Ontario hospitals
This is a landmark study. Among Ontario hospitals, higher spending intensity was associated with lower mortality, readmissions, and cardiac event rates. Let's see if we
CBO update on coverage under ACA
Updated Estimates for the Insurance Coverage Provisions of the Affordable Care ActCongressional Budget OfficeMarch 2012In preparing the March 2012 baseline budget projections, the Congressional Budget