The heated debate over health care reform was certainly not unexpected. What has been a surprise to many of us is the intensity of the
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.
Sarah Palin feeds the fact checkers
Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care
By Sarah Palin
The Wall Street Journal
September 9, 2009
Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that "no one in this
Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage
President Obama, in his speech before the joint session of Congress last evening, did not break new ground on the current proposal for reform being
Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage
Health Insurance Coverage: 2008
U.S. Census Bureau
September 10, 2009
* The percentage of people without health insurance in 2008 was not statistically different from 2007 at 15.4
Implications of growth in health care spending
Average-income Americans - the majority of us - are finding the impact of health spending growth to be onerous, and it will get worse.
Implications of growth in health care spending
Increased Spending On Health Care: Long-Term Implications For The Nation
By Michael E. Chernew, Richard A. Hirth and David M. Cutler
Health Affairs
September/October 2009
Average-income Americans - the
Fooled by the public option debate
In his Labor Day speech yesterday, President Obama, in using his "I continue to believe..." phrasing when mentioning a public option, made it quite clear
Fooled by the public option debate
Newsletter
Congressman Mike Ross
Arkansas Democrat, Blue Dog Coalition
September 8, 2009
I have been skeptical about the public health insurance option from the beginning and used August to
"Sick and Wrong" by Matt Taibbi
This may be the most important week in this window of opportunity for health care reform. Matt Taibbi's well researched article tells us where we
“Sick and Wrong” by Matt Taibbi
Sick and Wrong
By Matt Taibbi
Rollingstone.com
September 3, 2009
All that's left of health care reform is a collection of piece-of-shit, weakling proposals that are preposterously expensive and
"Sick and Wrong" by Matt Taibbi
Sick and Wrong
By Matt Taibbi
Rollingstone.com
September 3, 2009
All that's left of health care reform is a collection of piece-of-shit, weakling proposals that are preposterously expensive and
How much will reform cost me?
Under the House bill for reform (HR 3200), a family of four with an income of $88,200 that had health care needs could be responsible