An Open Letter to the Candidates on Single Payer Health Reform
Physicians for a National Health Program
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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.
Minnesota physicians prefer single payer
Most Minnesota doctors like single-payer health care, academic study findsBy Andy BirkeyDaily Planet February 27, 2008 Dr. Dick Adair, a 65-year-old physician, said that the
AHIP’s recommendation for rescissions
Health Insurers Address Issue Of Nixed Policies
By Rhonda Rundle
The Wall Street Journal
February 27, 2008
The health-insurance industry is racing to defuse a growing furor over retroactive
Focusing on coverage, or costs?
The Cost-Coverage Trade-off
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
JAMA
February 27, 2008
According to recent polls, many Americans consider health care reform the No. 1 domestic issue. Presidential candidates,
AHIP's recommendation for rescissions
Health Insurers Address Issue Of Nixed Policies
By Rhonda Rundle
The Wall Street Journal
February 27, 2008
The health-insurance industry is racing to defuse a growing furor over retroactive
Health care spending for 2008
Health Spending Projections Through 2017: The Baby-Boom Generation Is Coming To Medicare
By Sean Keehan, Andrea Sisko, et al (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office
Making Medicaid patients better shoppers
CMS Proposes New Rules for Redesigning Medicaid
States Have Greater Flexibility in Benefits, Cost Sharing
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
February 21, 2008
Two new proposed rules
The Corrosion of Medicine
The Corrosion of Medicine
Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy?
By John Geyman, M.D.
Although physicians have been complicit in the processes leading to the corrosion of
Will targeted policies work for the uninsured?
The U.S. Economy And Changes In Health Insurance Coverage, 2000-2006
Americans continued to lose their health insurance even as the economy improved.
by John Holahan and Allison
Lewin Group analysis of “Health Care for America”
Cost Impact Analysis for the "Health Care for America" Proposal
Prepared for The Economic Policy Institute
The Lewin Group (an Ingenix company)
February 15, 2008
Executive Summary
Rather than crafting
Lewin Group analysis of "Health Care for America"
Cost Impact Analysis for the "Health Care for America" Proposal
Prepared for The Economic Policy Institute
The Lewin Group (an Ingenix company)
February 15, 2008
Executive Summary
Rather than crafting
Insurers’ IT innovations shift costs to patients
Probe Targets Health Insurers On Payments
By Vanessa Fuhrmans and Theo Francis
The Wall Street Journal
February 14, 2008
The New York attorney general said his office plans to