Disputations: Is Single-Payer Health Care The Best Option?
The problem with split-the-difference incremental reform.
by Don McCanne
The New Republic
July 16, 2008
The real debate over health care reform
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.
Response to TNR's Jonathan Cohn
Disputations: Is Single-Payer Health Care The Best Option?
The problem with split-the-difference incremental reform.
by Don McCanne
The New Republic
July 16, 2008
The real debate over health care reform
National health insurance makes the green journal
National health insurance covers the entire population of many European countries at a much lower cost than US health care. Could such a system of
qotd: National health insurance makes the green journal
National Health Insurance: Could It Work in the US?
By James E. Dalen, MD, MPH, Joseph S. Alpert, MD
The American Journal of Medicine
July 2008
Reading a message
Uwe Reinhardt on the Dutch system
As Professor Reinhardt states, the Dutch system is not even vaguely close to the U.S. system, but rather is a social insurance system in disguise.
Uwe Reinhardt on the Dutch system
Americans down on the U.S. health-care system
By Kristen Gerencher
MarketWatch
July 13, 2008
Americans are fed up with the headaches in their system, but that's generally not due
"Keeping the insurance you have" – Don't believe it!
Pause for a minute. Think back to the insurance you had twenty years ago. Remember? Now… do you still have precisely that same coverage?
“Keeping the insurance you have” – Don’t believe it!
Statement of Common Purpose
Health Care for America Now!
"A choice of a private insurance plan, including keeping the insurance you have if you like it..."
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/
And...
Proposed GM/UAW
"Keeping the insurance you have" – Don't believe it!
Statement of Common Purpose
Health Care for America Now!
"A choice of a private insurance plan, including keeping the insurance you have if you like it..."
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/
And...
Proposed GM/UAW
China's failed experiment with the market
Some of the intellectuals in China had decided that using market dynamics was just the solution that they needed to help modernize the Chinese health
China’s failed experiment with the market
From A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The Market: Lessons From China
By Jin Ma, Mingshan Lu and Hude Quan
Health Affairs
July/August
China's failed experiment with the market
From A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The Market: Lessons From China
By Jin Ma, Mingshan Lu and Hude Quan
Health Affairs
July/August