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
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.
Grumbach and GAO on primary care crisis
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
February 12, 2008
Recent Supply Trends, Projections, and Valuation of Services
Testimony of A. Bruce Steinwald, Director, Health Care
United States
Blue Cross asks doctors to rat on patients
Doctors balk at request for data
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times
February 12, 2008
The state's largest for-profit health insurer is asking California physicians to look for conditions
End fringe debate over mandates – Kuttner
Examining Clinton & Obama's Stances on... Universal Healthcare...
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview Robert Kuttner
Democracy Now!
February 8, 2008
Amy Goodman: Let's talk about the healthcare plans
Get ready for a Blue Cross/Blue Shield retailer near you
Blue Cross and Blue Shield opens store in Pembroke Pines
By Jaclyn Giovis
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
February 7, 2008
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc. wants you
Kuttner on market-based failure
Market-Based Failure -- A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs
By Robert Kuttner
The New England Journal of Medicine
February 7, 2008
Relentless medical inflation has been attributed
Is "keeping the insurance you have" your choice?
Retirement reversal
Retired public employees may face higher health care costs, fewer benefits under proposal by cash-strapped Sonoma County
By Bleys W. Rose
The Press Democrat
February 5, 2008
After
Is “keeping the insurance you have” your choice?
Retirement reversal
Retired public employees may face higher health care costs, fewer benefits under proposal by cash-strapped Sonoma County
By Bleys W. Rose
The Press Democrat
February 5, 2008
After
More administrative fraud
Health Care Financing Fraud Trial Nears
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Associated Press
January 31, 2008
Six years after the collapse of the country's biggest health care finance company (National Century
Krugman on Gruber on individual mandates
Clinton, Obama, Insurance
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
February 4, 2008
I've tried to explain in previous columns, there really is a big difference between the candidates'
Oregon's health care lottery
Health plan takes new applicants
By Thelma Guerrero-Huston
StatesmanJournal.com
January 29, 2008
More than 600,000 adult Oregonians lack medical care coverage, according to Oregon Department of Human Services.
Last week,
Oregon’s health care lottery
Health plan takes new applicants
By Thelma Guerrero-Huston
StatesmanJournal.com
January 29, 2008
More than 600,000 adult Oregonians lack medical care coverage, according to Oregon Department of Human Services.
Last week,