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For more than 20 years, PNHPā€™s 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. McCanneā€™s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.

Privatized "Big Brother"

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Employers, Health Insurers Increasingly Use Care Managers To Review Physicians' Treatment Plans, Ensure They Conform to Evidence-Based Practices
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
September 25, 2007

Big Brother

Privatized “Big Brother”

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Employers, Health Insurers Increasingly Use Care Managers To Review Physicians' Treatment Plans, Ensure They Conform to Evidence-Based Practices
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
September 25, 2007

Big Brother

Employers offer private underinsurance

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To Keep Health Plans, Many Firms Shift Costs
By Fran Hawthorne
The New York Times
September 26, 2007

Health insurance premiums have been rising faster than the rate of

Cost savings through prevention and wellness

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Prevention isn't health care answer
By Steve Jacob
The Sacramento Bee
September 25, 2007

When Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., unveiled her $110 billion health care plan last week, one

Inexorably rising costs

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The Battle Over Health Care
The New York Times
Editorial
September 23, 2007

In 2008, when it comes to health care, which is emerging as a defining domestic issue,

Cracks in the moral hazard foundation

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American Health Policy: Cracks in the Foundation
By John A. Nyman
Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law
October 2007

Abstract
This landmark report turns upside down the policy basis

Hillary Clinton's "American Health Choices Plan"

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The American Health Choices Plan: Ensuring Affordable, Quality, Health Care for All Americans
Hillary for President
September 17, 2007

Today, Hillary Clinton unveiled the third part of her

Is it the prices?

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Health Spending In OECD Countries In 2004: An Update
By Gerard F. Anderson, Bianca K. Frogner and Uwe E. Reinhardt
Health Affairs
September/October 2007

So we pay far more

California legislation set for veto and special session

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Recap and Analysis of Yesterday's Legislative Floor Debates on California Health Care
By Hanh Kim Quach, Health Care Policy Coordinator, Health Access California
California Progress Report
September 11,