The Cancer Generation: Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm
by John Geyman
Common Courage Press
No topic could serve as a better proxy for the deficiencies in 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.
John Geyman's "The Cancer Generation"
The Cancer Generation: Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm
by John Geyman
Common Courage Press
No topic could serve as a better proxy for the deficiencies in the
The Washington Post kills Blue Cross Blue Shield story
Research Firm Cited by GOP Is Owned by Health Insurer
By David S. Hilzenrath
The Washington Post
July 22, 2009
The political battle over health-care reform is waged largely
Public option leads nosedive on reform
The progressive community has really blown it. The decision was to make "choice" the rallying cry for comprehensive reform - choosing to keep the insurance
Public option leads nosedive on reform
Bait and switch: How the "public option" was sold
By Kip Sullivan
Physicians for a National Health Program
July 20, 2009
The progressive community has really blown it. The
President Obama speaks the truth about single payer
President Obama: I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is that unless you have a what's called a single-payer system in which everybody
President Obama speaks the truth about single payer
News Conference
President Barack Obama
The White House
July 22, 2009
Question: ...is this bill going to cover all 47 million Americans that are uninsured...?
President Obama: I want to
Would a MedPAC-like IMAC effectively control costs?
There has been intense interest in providing the administration with greater control over Medicare spending in order to bend down the trajectory of projected increases
Would a MedPAC-like IMAC effectively control costs?
Centrists Win Backing on Medicare Cost Cuts
By Greg Hitt and Naftali Bendavid
The Wall Street Journal
July 22, 2009
Democratic centrists said they won a tentative commitment from
Biotech lobbyists cast their nets
The vote on the data exclusivity amendment was covered in a qotd last week, at the link above. More background information is provided by Lisa
Biotech lobbyists cast their nets
Biotech firms lobby for say on healthcare
$66m effort to protect drug-patent exclusivity
By Lisa Wangsness
The Boston Globe
July 21, 2009
The 46 million Americans without health insurance are
Is restraining federal health care spending the goal?
Is the health care cost debate limited to concerns about federal spending on health care, or is it about total health care spending? The distinction