Much has already been written about the wisdom, or lack thereof, of health savings accounts (HSAs) and the high-deductible health plans that are linked with
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.
Views on IRAs and HSAs contrast sharply
Not the Next IRA: How Health Savings Accounts Shape Public Opinion
By Jason Barabas
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
April 2009
Much has already been written about
Insurers waste your dollars to invade your privacy and cheat you
The health care financing systems in other nations are designed to assist patients in paying for their health care. Computerized searches of personal drug use
Insurers waste your dollars to invade your privacy and cheat you
Insurers shun those taking certain meds
How health insurers secretly blacklist those with certain ailments.
By John Dorschner
The Miami Herald
March 28, 2009
Some insurers will automatically reject applicants
STAKEHOLDERS AGREE! (to block reform)
This report, "Health Reform Dialogue," contains a few modest but obvious recommendations that any reasonable reform effort must include. Much more important is that the
STAKEHOLDERS AGREE! (to block reform)
Health Reform Dialogue
March 27, 2009
A Time for Reform:
...several widely diverse, national organizations began a series of unique discussions six months ago to exchange ideas and
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces single payer bill
At a rare time in our history when comprehensive reform may become a reality, it is important that the single payer model be represented in
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces single payer bill
Single-payer health reform bill introduced in Senate
PNHP
Press release
March 26, 2009
Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer
Himmelstein and Woolhandler on a public plan option
The option to purchase a public plan within a market of private health insurance plans would merely provide one more player in our inefficient, dysfunctional,
Himmelstein and Woolhandler on a public plan option
Public Plan Option in a Market of Private Plans
By David Himmelstein, M.D. and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.:
The "public plan option" won't work to fix the
Culling dependent coverage a great return on investment
Doing eligibility audits of dependents covered by employer-sponsored plans is yet one more example wherein our current dysfunctional system of financing health care actually promotes
Culling dependent coverage a great return on investment
Employers getting more strict on health-care eligibility
By Steve Twedt
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 25, 2009
Facing a difficult economy and running short of ways to reduce health-care costs, employers