Health Highlights
The Washington Post
December 11, 2008
Jeanne Lambrew, who helped Daschle write the book about health care reform, will serve as deputy director of the new
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.
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Health Highlights
The Washington Post
December 11, 2008
Jeanne Lambrew, who helped Daschle write the book about health care reform, will serve as deputy director of the new
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Although it is tempting to say that being uninsured causes an 80 percent higher death rate for hospitalized patients, and being on Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid)
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Mortality in California Hospitals, 2006
State of California
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)
November 2008
In-hospital mortality refers to deaths that occur to patients during the
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This is yet another example of the profound administrative waste that characterizes health care financing in the United States. Beyond the administrative excesses of AARP's
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AARP collects royalties, fees from insurers it endorses
By Gary Cohn and Darrell Preston
The Boston Globe
December 5, 2008
(AARP) collects hundreds of millions of dollars annually from
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The current Democratic proposals for health care reform promise that you can keep the health insurance you have, if that's what you prefer. This policy
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Lab retirees cry foul at health coverage switch
By Suzanne Bohan
San Jose Mercury News - Alameda County
December 5, 2008
One by one, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory retirees took
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When it was announced that Tom Daschle was Barack Obama's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, it was also announced that he
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Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
By Senator Tom Daschle, with Scott S. Greenberger and Jeanne M. Lambrew
Thomas Dunne Books, February 2008
When it
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Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
By Senator Tom Daschle, with Scott S. Greenberger and Jeanne M. Lambrew
Thomas Dunne Books, February 2008
When it
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Balance billing is a payment required by physicians that is in excess of the benefits covered by the patient's insurer. It is a prime example
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Surprise Health Bills Make People See Red
By Anna Wilde Mathews
The Wall Street Journal
December 4, 2008
Balance billing is a payment required by physicians that is in