A recent Quote of the Day (May 19) discussed Intermountain Healthcare as an example of how an integrated health care system can help to control
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.
Joe Jarvis and Brent James on Intermountain Healthcare
Dialogues such as this between Dr. Jarvis and Dr. James move the process forward bringing us closer to the day that we can experience
Medicaid maintenance-of-effort
GOP Pushes To Let States Reduce Medicaid RollsBy Mary Agnes Carey and Phil GalewitzKaiser Health News, May 23, 2011Medicaid covers about 56 million Americans, with
Medicaid maintenance-of-effort
As has been said many times in these messages, Medicaid is a welfare program, and our politicians will continue to approach it as such.
S&P Medicare and Commercial Indices
US Healthcare Costs Continue to Rise, But At Declining Rates According to the S&P Healthcare Economic IndicesS&P IndicesMay 19, 2011David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the
S&P Medicare and Commercial Indices
We frequently see reports that attempt to explain away the findings that medical costs funded by private commercial insurance plans are significantly greater
Donald Light responds on Intermountain and single payer
Professor Donald Light responds to yesterday's message on Intermountain Healthcare's success in improving quality while reducing costs (https://pnhp.org/news/2011/may/achieving-aco-goals-without-the-aco):Professor Donald Light responds to yesterday's message on
Donald Light responds on Intermountain and single payer
Professor Donald Light responds to yesterday's message on Intermountain Healthcare's success in improving quality while reducing costs (https://pnhp.org/news/2011/may/achieving-aco-goals-without-the-aco):
Hi Don,
Thanks for sending out your
Achieving ACO goals, without the ACO
How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement EffortsBy Brent C. James and Lucy A. SavitzHealth Affairs, May 19, 2011Since 1988 Intermountain Healthcare
Achieving ACO goals, without the ACO
This is what the accountable care organization (ACO) concept is all about. Intermountain Healthcare has confirmed W. Edwards Deming's principle that "the best
Market decisions negatively impact safety-net emergency departments
Factors Associated With Closures of Emergency Departments in the United StatesBy Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc; Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Yu-Chu Shen, PhDJAMA, May
Market decisions negatively impact safety-net emergency departments
We have a crisis with closures of our emergency departments. With our current dysfunctional mechanisms of financing health care - mechanisms that are