Health Savings Accounts and High Deductible Health Plans: Are They An Option for Low-Income Families?
By Catherine Hoffman and Jennifer Tolbert
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and 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.
Marie Cocco on the Citizens' Working Group report
Jittery about the health system
By Marie Cocco
The Sacramento Bee
October 8, 2006
In a previous Quote-of-the-Day, I condemned the recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group
Spending for privately insured Americans remains high
Center for Studying Health System Change October 2006 Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Remains Stable at High Rate in 2005
By Paul B. Ginsburg, Bradley
America's uninsured children
No Shelter from the Storm: America's Uninsured Children
Campaign for Children's Health Care
September 2006
Findings
There were more than 9 million uninsured children (ages 0-18 years) in the
Employer-sponsored premium increases
Health Benefits In 2006: Premium Increases Moderate, Enrollment In Consumer-Directed Health Plans Remains Modest
By Gary Claxton, Jon Gabel, Isadora Gil, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore,
Final Recommendations of the Citizens' Health Care WorkingGroup
Health Care that Works for All Americans Final Recommendations
Citizens' Health Care Working Group
Bipartisan legislation created the Citizens' Health Care Working Group to go to the
Illinois Health Care Justice Act
Taming a medical monster
By William H. Albers
Peoria Journal Star
September 24, 2006
In 2004, the Illinois Legislature enacted the Health Care Justice Act (HCJA). A 29-member task
Private insurers offering traditional Medicare coverage
Luring Customers From Medicare
By Milt Freudenheim
The New York Times
September 22, 2006
For years, private insurers have offered alternatives to the federal Medicare program that are meant
IOM report on rewarding performance
Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare
Institute of Medicine
September 2006
This Institute of Medicine report sheds further light on the subject. In elaborating on the pay-for-performance
Health care scorecard assigns numbers to our national disgrace
U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard
by Cathy Schoen, Karen Davis, Sabrina K. H. How, and Stephen C. Schoenbaum
Health Affairs
September 20, 2006
The first annual
GAO report – Don't choose an HSA if you need health care
Early Enrollee Experiences with Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Eligible Health Plans (HDHP)
Consumer-Directed Health Plans
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
August 2006
GAO estimated that HSA-eligible plan enrollees would
Why do the uininsured decline to buy individual plans?
Squeezed: Why Rising Exposure to Health Care Costs Threatens the Health and Financial Well-Being of American Families
By Sara R. Collins, Jennifer L. Kriss, Karen Davis,