You state that John Sheils has shown that building on the existing system is the single most expensive option for reform. What you didn't state
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.
David Brooks – Kill this effort and start over
Something for Nothing
By David Brooks
The New York Times
June 22, 2009
On May 12, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on health care reform. There was
House Tri-Committee public option
With the release of the discussion draft of the House Tri-Committee reform proposal, the progressive community is celebrating the decision to include a "strong public
House Tri-Committee public option
The House Tri-Committee Health Reform Draft
June 19, 2009
H.R. (discussion draft)
Short Title (to be supplied)
SEC. 223. PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES.
(a) RATES ESTABLISHED BY
Senate Finance proposes unaffordable underinsurance
The Senate Finance Committee members were informed by the Congressional Budget Office that the impact their preliminary reform proposal would have on the federal budget
Senate Finance proposes unaffordable underinsurance
Health Care Reform: Draft Proposal
Posted by Ezra Klein
The Washington Post
June 18, 2009
Senate Finance Committee
Excerpts
Benefit Options - Actuarial value
Bronze = 65%
Silver = 73%
Gold
Scrushy and the medical-industrial complex: a lesson for reformers
In a landmark 1980 New England Journal of Medicine editorial, former Editor-in-Chief Arnold Relman warned us of the new "Medical-Industrial Complex," referring to "a medical
Scrushy and the medical-industrial complex: a lesson for reformers
Judge orders Scrushy to pay $2.8B to shareholders
By The Associated Press
The Washington Post
June 18, 2009
(An Alabama) state judge on Thursday ordered former HealthSouth CEO Richard
Sebelius: flat out never single payer
The proposal to provide a government-run Medicare-like program as an option for purchase within an insurance exchange of private health plans is vehemently opposed by
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Petition to Congress
Sign the Petition
Senator Bernie Sanders
June 16, 2009
For a quick and painless way to express your support for a single-payer Medicare-for-all program, click on this link
Sen. Bernie Sanders' Petition to Congress
Sign the Petition
Senator Bernie Sanders
June 16, 2009
For a quick and painless way to express your support for a single-payer Medicare-for-all program, click on this link
CBO score: everyone covered, except 37 million
Since the Affordable Health Choices Act and the CBO analysis of it are works in progress, the estimates of the net numbers who will gain