Health Care Spending in the United States and OECD Countries
Kaiser Family Foundation
January 2007
For policy analysts, the most important exhibit in this report demonstrates that the
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.
Insurers say they have to be picky
Healthy? Insurers don't buy it
Minor ailments can thwart applicants for individual policies.
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 2006
Insurers have wide latitude to choose among applicants
Lessons for 2007
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself.... Economic freedom is also an
The Washington Post on the feasibility of single payer
Single-Payer Is Feasible
Letter to the Editor
The Washington Post
December 28, 2006
The Dec. 13 editorial "Inequality and Health Care" was right on the mark in its diagnosis
Private insurance risk pooling in Ireland and U.S.
Bupa health pulls out of Ireland
Health insurer Bupa has said it will close operations in Ireland to avoid making payments to a main rival.
BBC News
December
Shiraz insurance? (proper framing, part 2)
Filet Mignon, Pinot Noir and an MRI
By John R. Graham
The Washington Post
December 21, 2006
Your other patrons are a mixed blessing... purchasing the most expensive bottles
Get real! (by proper framing)
The Way I see It: The author makes a case for a shift to a consumer-driven system.
By Jordan L. Geller, MD
Medical Economics
December 15, 2006
In the
Can we learn from Oregon?
Health Reform Interrupted: The Unraveling Of The Oregon Health Plan
by Jonathan Oberlander
Health Affairs
December 19, 2006
Abstract:
The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) has received national and international attention
Would Europe's health-care-for-all model work here?
Cover everyone and use Medicare as a model
The Press-Enterprise
December 17, 2006
The perspective of Don McCanne, senior health policy fellow, and Nicholas Skala, research associate,
Change players or rules?
Commercial Health Insurance: Smart Or Simply Lucky?
By Marsha Gold
Health Affairs
November/December 2006
In commenting on the move of commercial insurers into our public programs - Medicare and
Lewin Group analysis of Sen. Wyden's plan
Cost and Coverage Estimates for the "Healthy Americans Act"
Prepared By: John Sheils, Randall Haught, Evelyn Murphy
The Lewin Group
December 12, 2006
(The Healthy Americans Act is a
The shocking extent of underinsurance
Changes in Financial Burdens for Health Care National Estimates for the Population Younger Than 65 Years, 1996 to 2003
Jessica S. Banthin, PhD; Didem M. Bernard,