For socially conscious health care reform advocates, the primary goal of reform is to see that every individual receives the health care that he or
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.
Uninsured trauma patients
Downwardly Mobile - The Accidental Cost of Being UninsuredBy Heather Rosen, MD, MPH; Fady Saleh, MD, MPH; Stuart Lipsitz, ScD; Selwyn O. Rogers Jr, MD,
Uninsured trauma patients
Uninsured trauma patients are more likely to die than insured patients in spite of the fact that treatment is mandated by law. This study did
RAND and BR on "savings" through "bundled payments"
Health Care Reform: Creating a Sustainable Health Care MarketplaceBy Hewitt AssociatesBusiness RoundtableNovember 2009Payment BundlingEstablishing bundled payments would create more incentives for efficient treatments and could
RAND and BR on “savings” through “bundled payments”
Health Care Reform: Creating a Sustainable Health Care MarketplaceBy Hewitt AssociatesBusiness RoundtableNovember 2009Payment BundlingEstablishing bundled payments would create more incentives for efficient treatments and could
RAND and BR on "savings" through "bundled payments"
Peter Hussey and his colleagues at RAND, in their NEJM article, try to make the case that a "bundled payment" approach would be one of
A conservative Republican sees the light
Republicans: Get out of the way of progressLetters North County Times November 13, 2009 I am a retired lifelong conservative Republican, planning to change my
A conservative Republican sees the light
How about that! A conservative Republican who has decided that single payer is the best way to go. Wow!
Misguided fixation on premiums
From the very start, the two most important goals for reform allegedly were to cover everyone and to control health care costs. But the precondition
Misguided fixation on premiums
Health savings? No one knows
By Carrie Budoff Brown
Politico
November 11, 2009
Barack Obama ran for president on a promise of saving the typical family $2,500 a year
Uninsured veterans
How can we continue to support a fragmented, dysfunctional financing system that allows some of our veterans (not to mention tens of thousands of others
Uninsured veterans
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
Physicians for a National Health Program
Press Release
November 10, 2009
A research team at Harvard Medical