Aetna Launches Employer Health Insurance Plans for Early Retirees
AISHealth.com
From Managed Care Week, Feb. 19, 2007
One objective of Aetna, Inc.'s launch of four new plans for
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.
Is Medicaid Sustainable?
Spending Projections For The Program's Second Forty Years
By Richard Kronick and David Rousseau
Health Affairs
February 23, 2007
Medicaid is a special program in many ways--serving parts of
Business Roundtable is ready?
Business will deal on health care
By David Lazarus
San Francisco Chronicle
February 18, 2007
(John Castellani, president of Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of some
Reform plan of investor-owned hospitals
FAH Unveils "Health Coverage Passport" to Insure All Americans
Federation of American Hospitals
February 22, 2007
The Federation of American Hospitals today released a proposal to ensure health
Health care spending for 2007
Health Spending Projections Through 2016
By John A. Poisal, Christopher Truffer, Sheila Smith, Andrea Sisko, Cathy Cowan, Sean Keehan, Bridget Dickensheets, and the National
Important links to Mayes and Berenson’s “Medicare Prospective Payment”
By Don McCanne, MD
A recent Quote of the Day message discussed the new book, "Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care," by
Important links to Mayes and Berenson's "Medicare Prospective Payment"
By Don McCanne, MD
A recent Quote of the Day message discussed the new book, "Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care," by
Bernanke on health care reform
Hearing on the Economy, the Labor Market and Monetary Policy
Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
U.S. House of
Excess administration of administrative excesses
Fights Over Health Claims Spawn a New Arms Race
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
The Wall Street Journal
February 14, 2007
Doctors increasingly complain that the insurance industry uses complex, opaque
UnitedHealth's lab contract disruptive
Doctors Fear New UnitedHealth Policy
By Theresa Agovino
Houston Chronicle
February 14, 2007
Doctors say UnitedHealth Group Inc. is threatening to fine them over something they can't control: patients'
UnitedHealth’s lab contract disruptive
Doctors Fear New UnitedHealth Policy
By Theresa Agovino
Houston Chronicle
February 14, 2007
Doctors say UnitedHealth Group Inc. is threatening to fine them over something they can't control: patients'
Instability of federal employees' premiums
Health fees pain federal workers
By Gilbert Chan
The Sacramento Bee
February 11, 2007
Wayne Forbess did a double take after seeing that his monthly premium for health insurance