Treating A Scorpion Sting: $ 100 In Mexico Or $ 12,000 In U.S.By Jenny GoldKaiser Health News, November 28, 2011Say you're trekking through the desert
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.
Scorpion antivenin: $100 in Mexico, $12,000 in U.S.
Instead of administered pricing, our government depends more heavily on the market for the pricing of our health care when payments are made through private
Hospital consolidation and the Affordable Care Act
New Evidence of the Association between Hospital Market Concentration and Higher Prices and ProfitsBy James C. Robinson, PhD, University of California, BerkeleyNational Institute for Health
Hospital consolidation and the Affordable Care Act
The increase in hospital market concentration has resulted in higher prices with enormous profits, simply due to the boost in leverage that consolidation of hospitals
Social consequences of segregation of the affluent
Growth in the Residential Segregation of Families by Income, 1970-2009By Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff, Stanford UniversityUS2010 Project, November 2011Report Abstract As the more affluent
Social consequences of segregation of the affluent
As the more affluent members of our society continue to concentrate themselves in their upscale neighborhoods, they take our resources with them, including some of
OECD Health at a Glance 2011
Health at a Glance 2011: OECD IndicatorsOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)November 23,2011Why is health spending in the United States so high?The United States
OECD Health at a Glance 2011
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just released "Health at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators." It "provides the latest comparable data on
Recoverable administrative waste is much greater than most realize
Billions Wasted on BillingBy Ezekiel J. EmanuelThe New York Times, November 12, 2011The landmark 1991 and 2003 New England Journal of Medicine articles comparing health
Recoverable administrative waste is much greater than most realize
The landmark 1991 and 2003 New England Journal of Medicine articles comparing health care administrative costs in the fragmented, multi-payer financing system in the United
Experts try to define affordable health insurance
We All Want It, but We Donāt Know What It Is: Toward a Standard of Affordability for Health Insurance PremiumsBy Peter Muennig, Bhaven Sampat, Nicholas
Experts try to define affordable health insurance
This study was designed to demonstrate what well qualified policy experts, from across the political and academic spectra, would conclude should be the standard for