Gulp! Regence rate boost averages 19 percent for individual plans
By Kyung M. Song
The Seattle Times
May 16, 2007
Regence BlueShield on Tuesday began notifying 137,000 individual-plan customers
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.
U.S. health care ranks last again
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care
By Karen Davis, Ph.D., Cathy Schoen, M.S., Stephen C. Schoenbaum,
Marsha Gold on Medicare Advantage and the market
Medicare Advantage In 2006-2007: What Congress Intended?
By Marsha Gold, senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research
Health Affairs
May 15, 2007
This analysis shows that MMA (Medicare Modernization Act)
Blue Cross settlement on rescission
Blue Cross to settle case in class action
By Julie Appleby
USA TODAY
May 14, 2007
Blue Cross of California -- under scrutiny for retroactively canceling health insurance policies
New polls on universal, tax-supported health care
CNN Poll
Opinion Research Corporation
May 9, 2007
30. Do you think the government should provide a national health insurance program for all Americans, even if this would
Is SCHIP reauthorization enough for now?
The State Children's Health Insurance Program
Congressional Budget Office
A CBO Paper
May 2007
About two-thirds of Americans now believe that we need comprehensive reform of health care financing
EPO and market competition
Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs
By Alex Berenson and Andrew Pollack
The New York Times
May 9, 2007
Two of the world's largest drug companies are paying hundreds
Private insurers depleting Medicare Trust Fund
Methods Used by Insurers Are Questioned
By Robert Pear
The New York Times
May 6, 2007
Insurance companies have used improper hard-sell tactics to persuade Medicare recipients to sign
Steve Burd’s Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform
Reforming health care
By Steve Burd
The Washington Times
May 7, 2007
Today, a large group of employers and business leaders are joining to form the Coalition to Advance
Steve Burd's Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform
Reforming health care
By Steve Burd
The Washington Times
May 7, 2007
Today, a large group of employers and business leaders are joining to form the Coalition to Advance
Kennedy/Dingell Medicare for All Act
The time is now: Medicare for all
By Senator Edward M. Kennedy
The Politico
April 24, 2007
If there is ever a time to solve our national crisis, it
Presidential candidates on health care reform
Presidential candidates on health care reform:
Hillary Clinton:
...three things... ...control and decrease costs... ... improve quality. We can save money within the existing system. I am