'Hallway medicine' seen as a way to unclutter ERs
By Carla K. Johnson
Houston Chronicle/AP
October 26, 2008
It may not sound like ideal health care, but hospital officials
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.
Sen. Kennedy's grand finale
Everyone has profound admiration for Sen. Edward Kennedy's valiant effort to finally overcome the stubborn political barriers, and bring health care to everyone in the
Sen. Kennedy’s grand finale
Kennedy secretly crafts health care plan
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
The Wilmington Times
October 24, 2008
From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with
Sen. Kennedy's grand finale
Kennedy secretly crafts health care plan
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
The Wilmington Times
October 24, 2008
From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with
Los Angeles Times series on private insurers
This important series of three articles published this week in the Los Angeles Times explains why the private insurance industry has neither the efficiency nor
Los Angeles Times series on private insurers
An eroding model for health insurance
By Lisa Girion and Michael A. Hiltzik
Los Angeles Times
First of three parts
October 21, 2008
The health insurance system has become increasingly
Fragmentation of family health care
It has long been recognized that one of the deficiencies of the children's health insurance program (SCHIP) is that parents in these lower income families
Fragmentation of family health care
Uninsured Children and Adolescents With Insured Parents
By Jennifer E. DeVoe, MD, DPhil; Carrie Tillotson, MPH; Lorraine S. Wallace, PhD
JAMA
October 22/29, 2008
It has long been recognized
Marcia Angell on U.S. lessons for Canada
Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States
By Marcia Angell, MD
Canadian Medical Association
CMAJ
October 21, 2008
Those who are well informed on health
Hawaii's "crowd out" crowds out children
Hawaii ending universal child health care
By Mark Niesse
The Miami Herald
October 17, 2008
Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the
Hawaii’s “crowd out” crowds out children
Hawaii ending universal child health care
By Mark Niesse
The Miami Herald
October 17, 2008
Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the
Hawaii's "crowd out" crowds out children
Hawaii ending universal child health care
By Mark Niesse
The Miami Herald
October 17, 2008
Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the