After withdrawing a request for an average 25 percent increase in premiums for individual health plans in California, Anthem Blue Cross is now
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.
Proof that individuals game the individual mandate
Short-term insurance buyers drive up cost in Mass.By Kay LazarThe Boston GlobeJune 30, 2010The number of people who appear to be gaming the state’s health
Proof that individuals game the individual mandate
During the reform process the concern was expressed repeatedly that an individual mandate - requiring individuals to purchase their own health insurance -
Vermont Joint Fiscal Committee approves single payer study
Vermont health reform panel recommends analystBy Nancy RemsenBurlington Free PressJune 29, 2010The Health Care Reform Commission recommended Monday that the Legislature hire the Harvard economist
Vermont Joint Fiscal Committee approves single payer study
Today the Vermont Joint Fiscal Committee gave the final approval for a study of health care reform for the state of Vermont. The study,
Winner-Take-All Politics
Invisible HandsBy Kim Phillips-FeinThis book is about those determined few, those ordinary businessmen from companies of different sizes and from various industries, who worked for
The private insurance oligopoly
WellPoint’s Kleinman Sees Health Insurer ‘Oligopoly’By Alex NussbaumBloomberg BusinessweekJune 24, 2010U.S. health insurers are "moving towards an oligopoly," a process that this year’s health-care overhaul
Venture capitalists say cheap is the name of the game
Name Of Game In Health Care: Cheaper, Better, FasterBy Jennifer RossaThe Wall Street JournalJune 13, 2010Now that health-care reform legislation has been signed into existence
Will grandfathering save our current private plans?
Fact Sheet: Keeping the Health Plan You Have: The Affordable Care Act and “Grandfathered” Health PlansU.S. Department of Health & Human ServicesAccessed June 23, 2010The
Are high premiums due to medical costs or insurer profits?
Insurance Industry Inflates Rates While Falsely Blaming New Health Care LawHealth Care for America Now! (HCAN)June 2010The health insurance industry argues that rising medical costs
Twenty percent average premium increase
Recent Premium Increases Imposed by Insurers Averaged 20% for People Who Buy Their Own Health Insurance, Kaiser Survey FindsKaiser Family FoundationJune 21, 2010People who buy
Sherif Emil – an American physician in Canada
Commencement AddressSherif Emil, MD, CMThe University of California, IrvineSchool of MedicineJune 5, 2010The students know. They brought Sherif Emil back from Canada to give them