Raising Premiums And Other Costs For Oregon Health Plan Enrollees Drove Many To Drop OutBy Bill J. Wright, Matthew J. Carlson, Heidi Allen, Alyssa L.
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.
Disastrous results of higher premiums and cost sharing for Oregon Health Plan
Currently there is a fixation in the health policy community on designing plans that require a significant financial contribution from the beneficiary on the theory
Are private insurers better than Medicare in controlling costs in McAllen?
McAllen And El Paso Revisited: Medicare Variations Not Always Reflected In The Under-Sixty-Five PopulationBy Luisa Franzini, Osama I. Mikhail and Jonathan S. SkinnerHealth AffairsDecember 2010According
Are private insurers better than Medicare in controlling costs in McAllen?
According to this new study published in Health Affairs, the widely-publicized differences in Medicare use and spending between McAllen and El Paso did
Socialized medicine comes to Yosemite
Innovative Plan To Keep Yosemite Clinic OpenBy Diana MarcumCalifornia HealthlineDecember 6, 2010The medical clinic in Yosemite National Park... will become the first medical clinic in
Socialized medicine comes to Yosemite
Yosemite visitors know how isolated Yosemite Valley is. With a large permanent park staff and the highest volume of tourists of all national
Victor Fuchs explains resistance to national health insurance
Government Payment for Health Care ā Causes and ConsequencesBy Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.The New England Journal of MedicineDecember 1, 2010The most obvious, easily quantifiable difference
Victor Fuchs explains resistance to national health insurance
In his 2002 NEJM article, Victor Fuchs explained the inevitability of national health insurance in the United States, but cautioned that will likely
Can states control private insurance premiums?
Rate Review: Spotlight on State Efforts to Make Health Insurance More AffordableKaiser Family FoundationDecember 2010Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have
Can states control private insurance premiums?
Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have claimed that states will be given broad powers to control private health
Fiscal Commission – “hastening the public option”
Final Report of National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and ReformC-SPANDecember 1, 2010From a discussion of the final recommendations, to be voted on by December 3:Sen
Fiscal Commission – "hastening the public option"
Final Report of National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and ReformC-SPANDecember 1, 2010From a discussion of the final recommendations, to be voted on by December 3:Sen