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.
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Health System Reform Agenda
American Nurses Association (ANA)
February 2008
Ultimately ANA supports a single-payer mechanism as the most desirable option for financing a reformed health care system.
http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/HealthcareandPolicyIssues/HSR/ANAsHealthSystemReformAgenda.aspx
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Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system?
Reported by T. R. Reid
FRONTLINE
April 15, 2008
Washington
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Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system?
Reported by T. R. Reid
FRONTLINE
April 15, 2008
Washington
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Hearing on the Instability of Health Coverage in America
Statement of Stephen Finan, Associate Director of Policy, American Cancer Society
House of Representatives
Committee on Ways and Means
Subcommittee
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Tax bill could boost HSA administration costs
By Jerry Geisel
Business Insurance
April 10, 2008
Tax legislation approved Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee could significantly increase
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WellPoint probing data breach for 130,000 members
Reuters
April 9, 2008
Health insurer WellPoint Inc is investigating the cause of a breach involving protected health information for about
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The Principles of Pricing Health Insurance
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Equity
So the private insurance industry, in order to establish equity, would set their premiums based on
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The Principles of Pricing Health Insurance
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Equity
So the private insurance industry, in order to establish equity, would set their premiums based on
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Chile's Neoliberal Health Reform: An Assessment and a Critique
By Jean-Pierre Unger, Pierre De Paepe, Giorgio Solimano Cantuarias, Oscar Arteaga Herrera
PLoS Medicine
April 1, 2008
Summary Points
* The
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Medicare Finds How Hard It Is to Save Money
By Reed Abelson
The New York Times
April 7, 2008
An ambitious three-year experiment to see whether the Medicare system
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Medicare Finds How Hard It Is to Save Money
By Reed Abelson
The New York Times
April 7, 2008
An ambitious three-year experiment to see whether the Medicare system
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Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness
Lead Author: John E. Wennberg
Co-Authors: Elliott S. Fisher, David C. Goodman, and Jonathan S. Skinner
The Dartmouth Atlas