Only wreckage remains when insurance agents breach trust You think you're covered? You might be surprised, and at the worst possible time.
By Mark Morris
The Kansas
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.
Robert Gumbiner on single payer
A Solution to America's Health Care Crisis: Curing Our Sick Health Care System
By Robert Gumbiner, M.D., with Alis Gumbiner
I am proposing the federal government as
No funds for children's insurance, only for HSAs for the rich
Congress Punts on Children's Health Care in Favor of Tax Shelter for Wealthy Statement of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
December 7,
OneCare single payer video
This article includes videoOneCareNow.org
Teams in more than 365 California cities are conducting grassroots educational and public awareness "action" events--one event per day, in a different city, for one
Public and private spending in Canada and the United States
Health care spending to reach $148 billion this year
Canadian Institute for Health Information
December 5, 2006
The public and private shares of total health care spending have
Physicians, hospitals and quality
Hospital-Physician Relations: Cooperation, Competition, Or Separation?
Economic pressures are creating an adversarial climate in some areas and pushing physicians and hospitals together in others.
By Robert A.
Private plans pay so little for so many
National Health Care? We're Halfway There
By Daniel Gross
The New York Times
December 3, 2006
So two-thirds of health care spending already is through our tax system.
Is San Francisco's reform a model for the nation?
San Francisco Health plan touted as U.S. model
By Rachel Gordon
San Francisco Chronicle
November 30, 2006
San Francisco's groundbreaking plan to provide access to affordable medical coverage
Can the uninsured afford insurance?
The Uninsured And The Affordability Of Health Insurance Coverage
By Lisa Dubay, John Holahan, Allison Cook
Health Affairs
November 30, 2006
The conservatives imply that the only real
Make corporate executives sensitive to their own health carecosts?
The Wall Street Journal
November 28, 2006
Letters
Should Corporate Chiefs Get Lifetime Health Care?
In your Nov. 20 editorial "AHIP Hop" on the health-insurance proposal recently unveiled by
DrSteveB's single payer blog on Daily Kos
Single Payer National Health Insurance
Part I - Introduction
Blog by DrSteveB
Daily Kos
November 27, 2006
This is the beginning of a series of diaries to explain what single
Cigna sticks it to entertainers
Healthcare premiums to soar for entertainers
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times
November 23, 2006
Hundreds of actors, artists, musicians and writers in California are facing massive increases in