A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. healthcare
By Michael M. Rachlis
Los Angeles Times
August 3, 2009
When the distortions and lies about Canada are brought up, interrupt (they do)
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.
Poisoning thought with words
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BREAKING NEWS: Speaker Pelosi promises floor vote on single payer
Call out the troops. We have work to do!
Poisoning thought with words
"American Values" -- A Smoke Screen in the Debate on Health Care Reform
By Allan S. Brett, M.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine
July 29, 2009
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BREAKING NEWS: Speaker Pelosi promises floor vote on single payer
Liberals will get single-payer vote on House floor
By Mike Soraghan
The Hill
July 31, 2009
Seeking to dampen liberal anger about deals cut with centrists, Energy and Commerce
President Obama's hardship waivers
Play with the numbers all you want. Using the model of reform selected by the President and Congress automatically limits the total subsidies to an
President Obama's hardship waivers
TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama
By Karen Tumulty
TIME
July 29, 2009
Karen Tumulty: But some things have changed. I mean, for instance you were very much against
President Obama’s hardship waivers
TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama
By Karen Tumulty
TIME
July 29, 2009
Karen Tumulty: But some things have changed. I mean, for instance you were very much against
Steve Burd's magic elixir
Safeway's Steve Burd has been making the rounds in Washington and elsewhere claiming that his program would reduce our national health care bill by $550
Steve Burd's magic elixir
How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs: Market-based solutions can reduce the national health-care bill by 40%
By Steven A. Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.
The Wall Street
Steve Burd’s magic elixir
How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs: Market-based solutions can reduce the national health-care bill by 40%
By Steven A. Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.
The Wall Street
John Geyman's "The Cancer Generation"
No topic could serve as a better proxy for the deficiencies in the financing and delivery of health care in the United States than the