Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses
By Cindy Zeldin and Mark Rukavina
Demos
The Access Project
January 16, 2007
The cost of health
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.
Credit cards and the “medically indebted”
Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses
By Cindy Zeldin and Mark Rukavina
Demos
The Access Project
January 16, 2007
The cost of health
AHRQ Disparities Report
2006 National Healthcare Disparities Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
December 2006
Multivariate analyses suggest that uninsurance is an important
Realtors face health care crisis
Realtors, Other Small-Business People Face Health Care Crisis
National Association of Realtors
January 10, 2007
Small business employers and the self-employed, including real estate firms and agents, are
Jacob Hacker's "Health Care for America"
Health Care for America
A proposal for guaranteed, affordable health care for all Americans building on Medicare and employment-based insurance
by Jacob S. Hacker
The Economic Policy Institute
EPI
Jacob Hacker’s “Health Care for America”
Health Care for America
A proposal for guaranteed, affordable health care for all Americans building on Medicare and employment-based insurance
by Jacob S. Hacker
The Economic Policy Institute
EPI
The truth about health savings accounts (HSAs)
HSA Funding: Are Health Care Consumers Leaving Money on the Table?
By Thomas Cochrane, CFA
A Vimo Research Group Report
January 4, 2007
[T]he report exposes HSAs for what
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s health care proposal
California Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Care Proposal
The Governor's vision for health reform is an accessible, efficient, and affordable health care system that promotes a healthier California
Gov. Schwarzenegger's health care proposal
California Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Care Proposal
The Governor's vision for health reform is an accessible, efficient, and affordable health care system that promotes a healthier California
Private insurers deny individual coverage based on occupation
Health insurers deny policies in some jobs
Common medications also can be deemed too risky in California.
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times
January 8, 2007
Health insurers in California
Gov. Schwarzenegger must tackle the private insurers
Make health insurers play fair
Any plan to reform healthcare must tackle the biggest obstacle to insuring everyone -- private insurers.
By Jamie Court and Judy Dugan
Los
Private health insurance is a drag on the economy
Insurance is enough to make you sick
Private health insurance is a drag on the economy the government must fix.
By Patt Morrison
Los Angeles Times
January 4, 2007
It's