The Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance
How Much Worse Off Are Small Firms?
By Christine Eibner
RAND Corporation
April 4, 2008
Technical Report
Conclusion
This report provides extensive data documenting the
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.
WellPoint tanks
The 52-Week Low Club
MarketWatch (Dow Jones)
March 28, 2008
Wellpoint (WLP) Downgrade from Lehman. Sells down to $43.02 from 52-week high of $90.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B54CC3830-623F-4C66-8CAF-E5DD58D401FF%7D&link=http://www.247wallst.com/2008/03/the-52-week--16.html&dist=msr_2
And...
WellPoint has been the leader
OECD paper on the economics of prevention
The Prevention of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases: an Economic Framework
By Franco Sassi and Jeremy Hurst
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OECD Health Working Paper No. 32
March 25,
Twice as many physicians support National Health Insurance as oppose it
Support for National Health Insurance among U.S. Physicians: 5 Years Later
By Aaron E. Carroll and Ronald T. Ackerman
Annals of Internal Medicine
April 1, 2008
Conclusion
The debate over
The insurance industry elephant
U.S. Refuses to See Insurance Elephant
Dr. Bill Roy
The Wichita Eagle
March 30, 2008
More good people are spending more good effort and more good money trying to
Hillary Clinton on single payer
From a transcript of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's interview with Kevin Sack of The New York Times about health care.
The New York Times
March 27, 2008
Q:
Hospitals requesting payments upfront
Some hospitals seeking fees before surgery
By Michael O'Connor
Omaha World-Herald
March 26, 2008
The Nebraska Medical Center has joined an increasing number of hospitals nationally that request that
AFL-CIO/Peter Hart health care survey
2008 Health Care for America Survey
Tabulation and analysis by Peter D. Hart Research Associates
AFL-CIO
Over a period of just seven weeks, from Jan. 14-March 3, a
Federal outsourcing increases uninsured
How Government Adds To Ranks of Uninsured
By Jane Zhang
The Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2008
Covering the uninsured is a central issue in this year's political campaign.
More on wages and health care costs
Rising Health Costs Cut Into Wages
By Michael A. Fletcher
The Washington Post
March 24, 2008
Recent history has not been kind to working-class Americans, who were down on
Do health benefits reduce wages?
The Mandate Wars, In California And Beyond
By Rick Kronick
Health Affairs Blog
March 6, 2008
Unfortunately, analysis of purchasing behavior provides two diametrically opposed views of affordability.
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