High-Deductible Health Plans and the New Risks of Consumer-Driven Health Insurance Products
Committee on Child Health Financing
Pediatrics (Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics)
March 2007
Policy
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.
Swiss voters reject single payer
Health reform flops at the ballot box
NZZ Online
March 11, 2007
An overwhelming majority of voters have thrown out a proposal for a single health insurance company
Jonathan Gruber on the RAND HIE
What is Insurance?
by Jonathan Gruber
wbur.org (Boston's NPR)
Commonhealth (a blog)
March 9, 2007
The debate over health care reform implementation in Massachusetts has become focused on the critical
Humana shifts risk to competitor
Feds probe Humana over Rx drug patients
By Jeffrey Young
The Hill
March 8, 2007
Federal officials are investigating whether one health-insurance company that sells prescription-drug coverage to Medicare
AFL-CIO statement on comprehensive reform
AFL-CIO Executive Council statement
AFL-CIO
Executive Council
March 6, 2007
The nation is once again focused on the crisis in health care and the American people are looking for
The Des Moines Register on mandating private insurance
Mandating private health insurance is misguided
Taxpayer-financed health coverage is a better approach.
By the Register Editorial Board
The Des Moines Register
March 5, 2007
This is the message that
Massachusetts redefines "affordable"
Insurers slice rates on health premiums
By Jeffrey Krasner
The Boston Globe
March 4, 2007
Governor Deval Patrick yesterday unveiled significantly lower prices for the health insurance plans that
Massachusetts redefines “affordable”
Insurers slice rates on health premiums
By Jeffrey Krasner
The Boston Globe
March 4, 2007
Governor Deval Patrick yesterday unveiled significantly lower prices for the health insurance plans that
Public opinion on health care reform
The New York Times/CBS News Poll
Feb. 23-27, 2007
22. Thinking about the country as a whole, are you generally satisfied or dissatisfied with the cost of
Medicare Advantage private fee-for-service plans
Medicare Advantage
Kaiser Family Foundation
February 2007
Most of the 43 million elderly and disabled people on Medicare (81%) have their health bills paid by the traditional fee-for-service
What every policy expert knows, but won't say
Profit For Some Or Care For All
By Diane Archer
TomPaine.com
February 27, 2007
The health insurance industry is full of surprises, but history and experience show that insurers
What every policy expert knows, but won’t say
Profit For Some Or Care For All
By Diane Archer
TomPaine.com
February 27, 2007
The health insurance industry is full of surprises, but history and experience show that insurers