Big Bad Wolf: "... and I'll huff and I'll puff... "
Pig with the feasible compromise: "Oops!"
By Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Thursday, Nov. 19,
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.
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Big Bad Wolf: "... and I'll huff and I'll puff... "
Pig with the feasible compromise: "Oops!"
By Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Thursday, Nov. 19,
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For Public, Affordability A Key Issue In Health BillBy Julie RovnerNPRNovember 24, 2009Lawmakers debating health care on Capitol Hill have spent months worrying about the
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Regular readers of these messages are no doubt saturated with the concerns expressed about affordability of health care for individuals and families. For those who
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November 23, 2009The Quote of the Day for November 18 (www.pnhp.org) was a letter to President Obama from twenty-three prominent economists urging that four specified
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November 23, 2009The Quote of the Day for November 18 (www.pnhp.org) was a letter to President Obama from twenty-three prominent economists urging that four specified
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The Quote of the Day for November 18 was a letter to President Obama from twenty-three prominent economists urging that four specified elements to control
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Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National StudyBy David U. Himmelstein, MD, Adam Wright, PhD, Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPHThe American Journal
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As currently implemented, health information technology (HIT) has no significant impact on administrative efficiency or overall costs, even in the "100 Most Wired" hospitals. Members
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In a tough year, employers hold the line on health benefit cost increasesMercerNovember 18, 2009* Employers hold cost growth to 5.5 percent in 2009, the
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In their just released 2009 report on employer-sponsored health benefit programs Mercer seems to be celebrating the fact that this year employers have held the
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Letter to President Barack Obama urging four elements be included in health reform legislation to control costsBy Alan M. Garber, Victor R. Fuchs, Kenneth J,
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Letter to President Barack Obama urging four elements be included in health reform legislation to control costsBy Alan M. Garber, Victor R. Fuchs, Kenneth J,