Envisioning the Future: The 2008 Presidential Candidates' Health Reform Proposals
By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., and Jennifer L. Kriss
The Commonwealth Fund
January 15, 2008
The policy principles listed
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.
Employers spend more to insure fewer
How employers save on health care: auditing workers
By Katherine Reynolds Lewis
Houston Chronicle
January 12, 2008
Meet the insurance audit. Increasing numbers of employers are requesting personal documents
High burden hits middle-income America
Financial Burden Of Health Care, 2001-2004
The same affordability issues that low-income families experienced a decade ago have begun to affect middle-income families today
By Jessica S.
Make that 22,000 uninsured deaths
Uninsured and Dying Because of It:
Updating the Institute of Medicine Analysis on the Impact of Uninsurance on Mortality
By Stan Dorn
Urban Institute
January 2008
The absence of health
United States has worst rate of amenable mortality
Measuring The Health Of Nations: Updating An Earlier Analysis
By Ellen Nolte and C. Martin McKee
Health Affairs
January/February 2008
Amenable mortality is defined in this study as "deaths
Health spending growth slower than what?
National Health Spending In 2006: A Year Of Change For Prescription Drugs
By Aaron Catlin, Cathy Cowan, Micah Hartman, Stephen Heffler the National Health Expenditure Accounts
Market justice and moral compass
Market Justice and US Health Care
By Peter P. Budetti, MD, JD
JAMA
January 2, 2008
The quasi-electromagnetic fields of market justice have screwed up our moral compass. Let's
Denying care or denying payment?
Take a deep breath, and read
By Steve Lopez
Los Angeles Times
January 2, 2008
Preston doesn't have cancer, but he was born with cystic fibrosis. And the cost
Where are we on reform? Part 2 (Hacker)
Health Reform Lessons from the Past
Jacob Hacker, PhD
National Conference on the Un and Underinsured
December 12, 2007 (Day 3)
Now I have one big point... and it
Where are we on reform?
Associated Press-Yahoo Poll
Interview dates: December 14 - 20, 2007
14. Which comes closest to your view?
34% - The United States should continue the current health insurance
The insured should be very, very afraid
Too Great A Burden: America's Families at Risk
Families USA
December 2007
Health care costs have become a growing burden for America's families, as premiums and out-of-pocket expenses
Insurance and cancer
Report Links Health Insurance Status With Cancer Care
American Cancer Society
December 20, 2007
Uninsured Americans are less likely to get screened for cancer, more likely to be