The Slowdown in Medicare Spending Growth By Chapin White
Congressional Budget Office
July 2006
Working Paper Series
Abstract
The Medicare payment document just released by CMS demonstrates how well this
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.
Shorter waiting times in Ireland's public system
Private not much quicker for treatment
By Susan Mitchell and Nicole Matthews
The Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
July 30, 2006
Hospital consultants have questioned the benefits of paying for
eHealthInsurance exposes the false promise of cheaphigh-deductible insurance
Monthly Health Insurance Premiums Highest in Spokane, Wash., Among 69 Cities, Survey Finds
kaisernetwork.org
Daily Health Policy Report
July 21, 2006
The private insurance industry will never provide coverage
Illinois' dubious claim of first to cover all kids
Illinois' Program to Provide Health Care for All Kids
State of Illinois
All Kids
Governor Rod R. Blagojevich
...more than a quarter of a million children right here in
Porter and Teisberg's Redefining Health Care
Redefining Health Care
Creating Value-Based Competition on Results By Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
(2006 - Harvard Business School Publishing)
This book is also an important
OECD Health Data 2006 for the United States
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) OECD Health Data 2006
How Does the United States Compare
Total health spending accounted for 15.3% of GDP in the
Fragmented system of coverage vulnerable to budget
Budget Writers Nix Children's Coverage Expansion
Health Access Alert
June 26, 2006
Legislative leadership and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced earlier today that they had come to a deal
Connecticut's study of three models of reform
Health Care in Connecticut:
Sounding the Alarm
(A Policy Brief released June 22, 2006)
Economic and Social Research Institute (ERSI) (Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at the Massachusetts
Private innovation using credit cards
This may pinch a bit - Credit cards for health care can cost big bucks
By Jennifer Heldt Powell
BostonHerald.com
June 19, 2006
The cards and credit programs have
Is employer-sponsored insurance a tax problem or a structural problem?
Our Unhealthy Tax Code
By Jason Furman
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Issue #1, Summer 2006
American health care is beset by a well-known litany of problems.
If this were
CalPERS rejects copays, but at a cost
CalPERS Rejects Co-Pay Increase
By Marc Lifsher
Los Angeles Times
June 21, 2006
A California Public Employees' Retirement System committee on Tuesday rejected a proposal to increase healthcare co-payments
Remedy for insurers' actions that resulted in racketeeringallegations
Filed June 19, 2006)
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Miami Division
Master File No. 00-1334-MD-Moreno
(U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno)
IN RE: MANAGED CARE