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
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.
Medicaid coverage worse than private insurance?
Insurance Coverage and Care of Patients with Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
By James E. Calvin, MD; Matthew T. Roe, MD, MHS; Anita Y. Chen,
The catastrophe of cancer – money or health?
USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer
Kaiser Family Foundation
November 20, 2006
Survey of Families Affected by Cancer Shows
AHIP's welfare plan for private insurers
We Believe Every American Should Have Access to Affordable Health Care Coverage A Vision for Reform
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Our proposal to expand access to
Major impact of small shifts from adverse selection
Illustrating the Potential Impacts of Adverse Selection on Health Insurance Costs in Consumer Choice Models
Kaiser Family Foundation
Health Care Costs
This study demonstrates the simple fact that
PPOs' pattern of underpayment
Health clinics take steps to recover underpayments
by Robin J. Moody
Portland Business Journal
November 3, 2006
Fewer than 20 percent of medical practices nationwide -- probably even
Court upholds insurer's fine print
Health fraud suit is tossed
By Andrew McIntosh
The Sacramento Bee
November 8, 2006
A Nevada County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Penn Valley
Elections and health care reform
Voters and Health Care in the 2006 Election
By Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., and Drew E. Altman, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine
November 2, 2006
So this
What's good about a 5 percent cut in physician payments?
Medicare Announces Final Rule Setting Physician Payment Rates and Policies for 2007
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
November 1, 2006
Starting next year, the Medicare
Deterioration of employer-sponsored coverage
Insurance plans target employers
By Andi Atwater
The Wichita Eagle
November 2, 2006
Three of Wichita's largest insurance carriers are introducing new products this year and next that will
Amerigroup's marketing reps commended for excluding pregnant women
Jury finds HMO bias in signing patients
Amerigroup shunned pregnant women, high-risk patients
By Rudolph Bush
Chicago Tribune
October 31, 2006
A health maintenance organization hired by the government
J. Gruber on lessons from the RAND HIE
The Role of Consumer Copayments for Health Care: Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and Beyond
By Jonathan Gruber, Ph.DKaiser
Family Foundation
October 2006
Conclusion
Jonathan Gruber