UnitedHealth Profit Rises on Government Medical Plans
By Avram Goldstein
Bloomberg.com
July 19,2007
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, said profit rose 22 percent on gains from
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.
Hospital consolidation increases disparities in insurance coverage
Hospital Consolidation And Racial/Income Disparities In Health Insurance Coverage
By Robert J. Town, Douglas R. Wholey, Roger D. Feldman and Lawton R. Burns
Health Affairs
July/August 2007
What is
Premium subsidies are not the answer
RAND Study Finds Health Insurance Subsidies Won't Significantly Cut Number of Uninsured
RAND
July 16, 2007
Government subsidies that cut health insurance premium prices in half for people
Health insurance for the 21st Century
Upgrading To National Health Insurance (Medicare 2.0)
The Case For Eliminating Private Health Insurance
by Leonard Rodberg & Don McCanne
CommonDreams.org
July 13, 2007
Private health insurance was an idea
Rationing under U.S. Medicare and Canadian Medicare
The Waiting Game
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
July 16, 2007
...it's true that Americans get hip replacements faster than Canadians. But thereĆ¢ā¬ā¢s a funny thing about
Keep your insurance and lose your doctor
State steps in to defuse PacifiCare controversy
By Suzanne Bohan
San Mateo County Times
June 30, 2007
The California Department of Managed Health Care has reached a settlement with
Assets, debts and health insurance for middle-income families
Thin Protections: High-Deductible Plans Provide Little Comfort for Asset Poor Middle-Income Families
Health Access
June 22, 2007
Our research shows that many middle-income families, some who are uninsured
The future is specialists and in-store clinics?
Crossroads/Health Care is a forum on the future of health care posted on the sacbee.com website. Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub is the moderator. Following
How many are uninsured?
Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the 2006 National Health Interview Survey
CDC
June 2007
In 2006, the percentage uninsured at the time of interview
Imaging as a proxy for government cost control
MRI, X-ray firms fight Medicare cuts
By Matthew Perrone
Arizona Daily Star
June 26, 2007
Medical imaging equipment makers are lobbying to overturn Medicare cutbacks after weathering some of
The political priority of EMRs
Electronic Medical Records and Diabetes Quality of Care: Results From a Sample of Family Medicine Practices
By Jesse C. Crosson, PhD, Pamela A. Ohman-Strickland, PhD, Karissa
Political status of insurance mandates in California
Top Democrats, governor tout health care proposals
By Aurelio Rojas
The Sacramento Bee
June 22, 2007
Setting the stage for negotiations to begin in earnest, Democratic legislative leaders announced