Bottom line blues
By Karen Caffarini
American Medical News
November 17, 2008
Medical Group Management Assn. members were asked to name the tasks their practices found most challenging.
50.1% Collect
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.
U.S. health care ranks first – as worst value
The United States spends far more per capita on health care than any other nation, yet we are obtaining very poor value for our spending.
U.S. health care ranks first – as worst value
Health Spending In OECD Countries: Obtaining Value Per Dollar
By Gerard F. Anderson and Bianca K. Frogner
Health Affairs
November/December 2008
The United States spends far more per capita
Uwe Reinhardt explains family health care costs
If we are truly serious about establishing an affordable system that would provide all necessary care for everyone, we have to seriously look at the
Uwe Reinhardt explains family health care costs
The Health Care Challenge: Sailing Into a Perfect Storm
By Uwe E. Reinhardt
The New York Times
November 7, 2008
Even if the financial markets had not gone into
AMA's Heal that Claim Month
The AMA has selected November as the first national Heal that Claim Month. The problems that this addresses must be fairly significant if they are
AMA's Heal that Claim Month
AMA wants physicians to stake a claim for accurate insurer payments this fall
AMA
October 29, 2008
As part of its national campaign to save the health system
AMA’s Heal that Claim Month
AMA wants physicians to stake a claim for accurate insurer payments this fall
AMA
October 29, 2008
As part of its national campaign to save the health system
Yes we can
Yes we can!
Yes we can
November 4, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
President-elect Barack Obama:
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there's so much more to do. So tonight
UK halts cancer drug penalty
There have been many reports from the U.S. opponents of government health programs proclaiming that "life saving drugs are denied" for cancer patients in UK's
UK halts cancer drug penalty
Terminally ill patients to get expensive new drugs on NHS
By Rebecca Smith
Telegraph.co.uk
November 4, 2008
The NHS drugs rationing body the National Institute of health and Clinical
