Health Care Takes a Hit in New Commission PlanBy Drew AltmanThe Fiscal TimesNovember 12, 2010Three national commissions are hammering out recommendations for reducing the debt
For more than 20 years, PNHP’s 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. McCanne’s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Drew Altman on hard choices for Medicare
Medicare is already an inadequate program for our seniors and for individuals with long term disabilities. The commissioners are making an egregious mistake
Kevin Drum explains the budget deficit
Is the Deficit Commission Serious?By Kevin DrumMother JonesNovember 10, 2010So this report matters (the "chairman's mark" of the deficit commission report), even though it's really
Kevin Drum explains the budget deficit
After reading Kevin Drum's explanation of the federal deficit, it becomes even more obvious that all we have to do is improve Medicare,
More on the Deficit Commission’s co-chairs’ proposal
Critique of the co-chairs’ health care proposals for the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and ReformBy Don McCanne, M.D.The projected increases in Medicare spending are
Deficit commission: Co-Chairs’ proposal
Co-Chairs' Proposal (Draft Document)National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and ReformNovember 10, 2010Reducing Health Care Costs (page 31)## Medium Term: Fully offset the cost of the
Deficit commission: Co-Chairs' proposal
Co-Chairs' Proposal (Draft Document)National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and ReformNovember 10, 2010Reducing Health Care Costs (page 31)## Medium Term: Fully offset the cost of the
Deficit commission: Co-Chairs’ proposal
Today, behind closed doors, the chairmen of President's Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, presented to the other members of the
Children worse off under Utah’s privatized CHIP program
Central Utah children on CHIP face doctor shortageBy Kirsten StewarThe Salt Lake TribuneNovember 8, 2010Privatizing Utah’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is supposed to save
Children worse off under Utah's privatized CHIP program
Central Utah children on CHIP face doctor shortageBy Kirsten StewarThe Salt Lake TribuneNovember 8, 2010Privatizing Utah’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is supposed to save
Children worse off under Utah’s privatized CHIP program
The drive to divert the administration of publicly-financed health insurance programs to the private sector can be described at best as irrational fanaticism.
President Obama confirms strategy to introduce a Republican reform model
President Barack Obama60 MinutesNovember 4, 2010President Barack Obama: ... I think there were some that argued, "Well, you should just stop and let people digest