New York's Local 6 has achieved many of the goals of single payer reform by working from the bottom up. They are providing very comprehensive
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.
PNHP has archived Dr. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Insurer Highmark becoming a health care provider
Highmark looks to expand hospital and physician ownershipBy Emily Berryamednews.com, December 26, 2011Faced with a future where its home region's largest health system could be
Insurer Highmark becoming a health care provider
Highmark, a Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, is "transforming from a neutral insurer where every subscriber could go to any
Patient complicity through insurer kickback
Insurer to reward patients for finding cheaper careBy Robert WeismanThe Boston Globe, December 20, 2011Told they need a routine medical test, such as a colonoscopy
Drug sales reps now pushing hospitals
Hospitals Adopt Drug Industry Sales StrategyBy Phil GalewitzKaiser Health News, December 13, 2011The University of Chicago Medical Center is one of a growing number of
Drug sales reps now pushing hospitals
The for-profit hospital chains - HCA and Tenet - both infamous for prior ethical lapses, have instituted tarnished sales programs that are now being adopted
PolitiFact's 2011 Lie of the Year
Dems' 'Mediscare' a dubious winnerBy Angie Drobnic Holan and Bill AdairPolitico, December 20, 2011Republicans muscled a budget through the House of Representatives in April that
PolitiFact’s 2011 Lie of the Year
PolitiFact has chosen the Democrats' claim that "Republicans voted to end Medicare" as 2011 Lie of the Year. The facts that led the Democrats to
Theresa BrownGold: Painter of the under-insured
This article on unaffordable under-insurance was covered in a previous Quote of the Day (Dec. 8), but a new response posted on the In These
Theresa BrownGold: Painter of the under-insured
We have long heard tragic stories of the uninsured, but now the under-insured are joining them with their sad tales. Theresa BrownGold's series of portraits
Is expensive health care a social determinant of health?
Health and social services expenditures: associations with health outcomesBy Elizabeth H Bradley, Benjamin R Elkins, Jeph Herrin, Brian ElbelBMJ Quality & Safety, March 29, 2011AbstractObjective
Is expensive health care a social determinant of health?
Opponents of health care reform frequently object to the use of statistics such as our lower life expectancy and greater infant mortality, arguing that these