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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.
Saving our children from THEIR deficit
Taming the DeficitSaving Our Children from ThemselvesBy David Rosnick and Dean BakerCenter for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)December 2009Understanding the DeficitIt has been said the
Saving our children from THEIR deficit
It has been said the the profligacy of our boomer generation, in wanting to keep our Medicare and Social Security benefits, is resulting in an
Lesson for Congress: Medicare Advantage
New Report Highlights Medicare Advantage Insurers’ Higher Administrative SpendingCommittee on Energy and CommerceU.S. House of RepresentativesDecember 9, 2009Today Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A.
Lesson for Congress: Medicare Advantage
Congress and the Obama administration decided up front that reform would be based on private insurance plans, rejecting without consideration the single payer Medicare for
Medicare buy-in?
Harry Reid: Democrats reach 'broad agreement'By Carrie Budoff Brown & Patrick O'ConnorPoliticoDecember 9, 2009Senate Democrats have reached a "broad agreement" on a health reform bill,
Medicare buy-in?
The most efficient, most effective, and least expensive method of providing reasonably comprehensive health care for everyone would be to replace all current public and
$126,000 drug that only makes the desperate sick
Questioning a $30,000-a-Month Cancer DrugBy Andrew PollackThe New York TimesDecember 4, 2009A newly approved chemotherapy drug will cost about $30,000 a month, a sign that
$126,000 drug that only makes the desperate sick
Fotolyn is a new miracle drug brought to us by our highly revered pharmaceutical industry. This new drug has no demonstrated clinical benefit, though all
250,000 FEHBP-eligible federal employees uninsured
How health care bills compare to lawmakers' planBy Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarThe Washington PostDecember 6, 2009You should get the same health insurance deal that members of Congress
250,000 FEHBP-eligible federal employees uninsured
Why shouldn't we all have the same insurance that members of Congress have? They and all other federal employees are covered by the Federal Employees
Do the insurance industry reports totally lack all credibility?
Good News on PremiumsEditorialThe New York TimesDecember 3, 2009The health insurance industry frightened Americans — and gave Republicans a shrill talking point — when it