NBC News Health Care Survey
Hart/McInturff
August 15-17, 2009
8. Thinking about efforts to reform the health care system, which would concern you more?
41% - Not doing enough
For more than 20 years, PNHPās 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. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Policies to address out-of-network charges
What are private insurers selling us? Their primary product is a network of health care providers that have contracted to accept the insurers' rates. The
Policies to address out-of-network charges
Code Blue: Out-of-Network Charges Can Spur Financial Emergency
By Paul Raeburn
Kaiser Health News
August 19, 2009
On the evening of March 1, 2008, Gary Diego was relaxing with
Obama on choice of physician
Obviously, giving someone who lives in Maine the choice of having the option for an expense-paid trip to California to receive health care is not
Obama on choice of physician
Remarks by the President in Town Hall on Health Care
The White House
Grand Junction, Colorado
August 15, 2009
Obviously, giving someone who lives in Maine the choice of
Conservative leader David Cameron on the NHS
For those of us in the United States who want to know more about the horrors of their government-run, socialist system of health care, Conservative
Conservative leader David Cameron on the NHS
We are proud of the NHS
By David Cameron
Conservatives
The Blue Blog
August 13, 2009
People still care about the issues they care about, and thanks to the internet
Uwe Reinhardt on ethics and economics of end-of-life care
Ethics meets economics not only at the end of life, but throughout a lifetime of health care. Economics provides us with various alternatives on financing
Uwe Reinhardt on ethics and economics of end-of-life care
End-of-Life Care: Where Ethics Meet Economics
By Uwe Reinhardt
The New York Times
August 14, 2009
... the debate -- really, shouting match -- over health-care reform has focused
Helen Thomas on single payer
Helen Thomas doesn't ever give up, thank goodness. As she writes, President Obama "still has time to do the right thing."
Helen Thomas on single payer
Health care for all
By Helen Thomas
San Francisco Chronicle
Politics Blog
August 12, 2009
It's all so sad. Well-organized conservatives have launched a full-scale attack on health care reform.
AHIP explains why private insurance is a bad deal
As we look at comprehensive health care reform, we really have to ask ourselves just what is it that the private insurance plans are providing