Letters to the Editor
A Cure for Our System
The Washington Post
June 19, 2008
While I welcome the heightened attention of policymakers, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.
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. Sheila Kuehl on the LAO report
LAO Confirms Single Payer Reduces Health Care Spending, Contains Annual Growth
by State Senator Sheila Kuehl
California Senator Sheila Kuehl
June 16, 2008
The new LAO report did not
LAO report on SB 840 (California)
A fiscal analysis of SB 840 (Kuehl), which would establish in California a single-payer health care system and its companion financing mechanism.
By Elizabeth G.Hill, Legislative
Congressional Quarterly article on Taiwan’s single payer system
Taiwan: Surprising Lessons From a Small Island
By John Reichard, CQ HealthBeat Editor
CQ HealthBeat News
June 5, 2007
In the middle of May, two Taiwanese officials, Hou Sheng-Mou
Congressional Quarterly article on Taiwan's single payer system
Taiwan: Surprising Lessons From a Small Island
By John Reichard, CQ HealthBeat Editor
CQ HealthBeat News
June 5, 2007
In the middle of May, two Taiwanese officials, Hou Sheng-Mou
Well off and underinsured
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How Many Are
Why the Massachusetts reform is not a model for the nation
On The Road To Universal Coverage:
Impacts Of Reform In Massachusetts At One Year
By Sharon K. Long, principal research associate at the Urban Institute
Health Affairs
June 3,
UnitedHealthcare – source of identity theft
Officials: Identity theft of UCI students started with insurer's leak
By Marla Jo Fisher
The Orange County Register
June 5, 2008
A computer security breach at a health insurance
The example of South Los Angeles
A City Where Hospitals Are as Ill as the Patients
By Jennifer Steinhauer
The New York Times
June 5, 2008
For thousands of residents of South Los Angeles who
Congressional response to Obama as president
We must resuscitate the system in order to expand coverage, lower cost
By Rep. Pete Stark
The Hill
June 3, 2008
Those of us who have long been advocating
Auctioneers of medical debt
Hospitals Put Patients' Debt Up for Auction
By Sarah Rubenstein
The Wall Street Journal
June 3, 2008
In a move that consumer groups say could increase pressure on people
Sen. McCain’s proposal for high-risk pools
McCain's Free-Market Health Plan Would Boost Role of High-Risk Pools
By Laura Meckler and Anna Wilde Mathews
The Wall Street Journal
June 2, 2008
John McCain's plan for a