Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Policy Brief
September 2004
Has (private insurance) helped relieve cost pressures?
As we address reform in the
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.
Medicare fee reduction for ASCs
Doc group says new ASC rate would be 'death blow'
By Jennifer Lubell
Modern Physician
August 20, 2007
Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are trying to figure out how they'll
The tragedy of a man throwing his ill wife off of their balcony
Man charged with throwing wife off balcony to her death
By Joyce Tsai
The Kansas City Star
August 17, 2007
A husband, financially desperate because of his wife's medical
Was your $100 in drug marketing worth it?
A Decade of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs
By Julie M. Donohue, Ph.D., Marisa Cevasco, B.A., and Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine
August
Medicare Advantage plan in receivership
SunCoast Physicians Health Plan
SunCoast Physicians Health Plan is a new Medicare Advantage HMO that has been built on traditional medical values, when medicine was about
Defining success for Illinois’ All Kids
A Race to the Top: Illinois's All Kids Initiative
Prepared by Teresa A. Coughlin and Mindy Cohen of The Urban Institute
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the
Defining success for Illinois' All Kids
A Race to the Top: Illinois's All Kids Initiative
Prepared by Teresa A. Coughlin and Mindy Cohen of The Urban Institute
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the
World's Best Medical Care? (New York Times)
World's Best Medical Care?
Editorial
The New York Times
August 12, 2007
Many Americans are under the delusion that we have "the best health care system in the world,"
World’s Best Medical Care? (New York Times)
World's Best Medical Care?
Editorial
The New York Times
August 12, 2007
Many Americans are under the delusion that we have "the best health care system in the world,"
CMA testimony on Blue Cross
CMA Calls Blue Cross a Leader in Profits, Not Patient Care
California Medical Association
California Physician
August 9, 2007
CMA on Tuesday asked the Department of Managed Health Care
WHO report on private insurance and cost sharing
What are the equity, efficiency, cost containment and choice implications of private health-care funding in western Europe?
By Sarah Thomson and Elias Mossialos (London School of
For vaccines, underinsurance worse than no insurance
Gaps in Vaccine Financing for Underinsured Children in the United States
By Grace M. Lee, MD, MPH; Jeanne M. Santoli, MD; Claire Hannan, MPH; Mark L.