National Health Spending In 2007: Slower Drug Spending Contributes To Lowest Rate Of Overall Growth Since 1998
By Micah Hartman, Anne Martin, Patricia McDonnell, Aaron Catlin
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.
Another middleman, with a Donald Trump wig!
As long as we insist that health care continue to be financed through our dysfunctional, fragmented multi-payer system, we will continue to see more innovative
Another middleman, with a Donald Trump wig!
Dallas' American CareSource sees stock jump 120% in 2008
By Jason Roberson
The Dallas Morning News
January 2, 2009
American CareSource is the nation's first publicly traded ancillary care
Student Debt, Resident Hours, and Primary Care
Josh Freeman's comments were selected to start off this year of reform (hopefully) because they set the theme that reform should not be simply about
Student Debt, Resident Hours, and Primary Care
Student Debt, Resident Hours, and Primary Care Redux
By Josh Freeman
Medicine and Social Justice (A Blog)
January 2, 2009
The December 18, 2008 issue of the New England
Health economists: Their facts, but our values
Health Economists' Views of Health Policy
By Michael A. Morrisey and John Cawley
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
August 2008
This article reports the views of a
Health economists: Their facts, but our values
Health Economists' Views of Health Policy
By Michael A. Morrisey and John Cawley
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
August 2008
This article reports the views of a
House party attendees in agreement
And for reform, our nation's political leaders are going to bring us... even more of the same?
House party attendees in agreement
At House Party on Health Care, the Diagnosis Is It's Broken
By Robert Pear
The New York Times
December 22, 2008
When a dozen consumers gathered over the weekend
Ovation extorts innocent premature babies
FTC accuses firm of drug monopoly
By James Rowley
The Seattle Times
December 17, 2008
Antitrust enforcers accused Ovation Pharmaceuticals of cornering the U.S. market on a drug for
CBO's deficient report on analyzing health insurance proposals
Everyone who is participating in the efforts to reform health care financing in the United Sates should have a copy of this CBO report. It
CBO’s deficient report on analyzing health insurance proposals
Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals
The Congress of the United States
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
December 2008
Chapter 4 - Proposals Affecting the Choice of an