Health-Care Plans Aid Industry
By Laura Meckler
The Wall Street Journal
November 19, 2007
Democratic presidential candidates like to beat up on insurance companies, but there is a lot
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 are shifting more costs to employees
U.S. employers' health benefit cost continues to rise at twice inflation rate, Mercer survey finds
Mercer
November 19, 2007
Total U.S. health benefit cost rose by 6.1 percent
Roadblocks in the private insurance maze
How U.S. Health System Can Fail Even the Insured
By John Carreyrou
The Wall Street Journal
November 16, 2007
Barbara Calder lives in nearly constant pain. Her limbs dislocate
Renew it or lose it
Making the Most of Benefits
By Terri Cullen
The Wall Street Journal
November 15, 2007
It's that time of year again: open-enrollment season.
One crucial feature of a health care
The AMA and single payer policies
Reference Committee highlights
AMA House of Delegates
2007 Interim Meeting
Reference Committee J
The AMA calls for coverage to be universal, continuous and portable. Those goals would be automatic
Is reform to benefit underwriters, or patients?
A very recent Quote of the Day message included the comments of Janet Trautwein who represents the National Association of Health Underwriters. She stated that
Does universal health care suppress innovation?
Creative Destruction
The best case against universal health care.
By Jonathan Cohn
The New Republic
November 12, 2007
You should immediately download the entire article and save it for a
Underwriting is part of the problem
The Quote of the Day for October 31, 2007 was from a Modern Healthcare article, "Universal healthcare crosses the partisan divide," which mentioned that many
Highmark's Healthcare Gift Card
Highmark offers the ultimate get-well card
By Bill Toland
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 2, 2007
Highmark Inc., the Pittsburgh-based health insurer, hopes its new Healthcare Gift Card will encourage people
Highmark’s Healthcare Gift Card
Highmark offers the ultimate get-well card
By Bill Toland
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 2, 2007
Highmark Inc., the Pittsburgh-based health insurer, hopes its new Healthcare Gift Card will encourage people
Oregon rejects health care for children?
Health plan gets burned after state's costliest race
By Janie Har
The Oregonian
November 7, 2007
After the most expensive political campaign in Oregon history, voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected
Why would Big Business defend ERISA?
Big Business launches healthcare lobby group
By Jeffrey Young
The Hill
November 6, 2007
As state legislatures, Congress and the presidential candidates turn up the volume on national healthcare