Citigroup Smith Barney
Affluent Investor Poll
May 17, 2006
What is clear is that, like the rest of us, they do want affordable access to comprehensive care. The
For more than 20 years, PNHP’s 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. McCanne’s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
The price of insurance
Amid War, Troops See Safety in Reenlisting By Faye Fiore
Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2006
(Staff Sgt. Matthew Kruger) looked around the job market, and it didn't
Medicare Advantage plans often shift costs to the sick
Medicare Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs: Are Medicare Advantage Plans a Better Deal?
By Brian Biles, Lauren Hersch Nicholas and Stuart Guterman
The Commonwealth Fund
May 2006
(Medicare Advantage) plans may
Mandating Cover Tennesee insurers to bear all risk for $150per month
State Senate strikes blow to Cover Tennessee
By Tom Humphrey
Knoxville News Sentinel
May 16, 2006
As proposed by (Gov. Phil) Bredesen, Cover Tennessee would provide a $50 per
Now President Clinton gets it
Clinton warns Canadians against letting 'finance tail wag health care dog'
By Angela Pacienza
The Canadian Press
May 15, 2006
Asked about the growing interest by some for a
David Baltimore on national health insurance
Science For Life: A Conversation With Nobel Laureate David Baltimore By Barbara J. Culliton
Health Affairs
May 16, 2006
(David Baltimore is the new president of the American
Dartmouth Atlas – Major overhaul of health care required
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
In the News
May 16, 2006
New Study Shows Need for a Major Overhaul of How United States Manages Chronic Illness
If we
Target targets employee health plans
Tough health care medicine for Target workers
By Chris Serres
Star Tribune
May 11, 2006
Stung by rising health costs, Target Corp. is now offering private health accounts funded
Single payer's bold move into the political arena
California Democratic Party
2006 Platform
Adopted At The Democratic Party State Convention, April 30, 2006
California should lead the nation in providing comprehensive quality health care to all
Robert Bazell on health care reform
Bubba blew it. But can U.S. health care be fixed?
Other government programs, healthier nations show it's possible
By Robert Bazell, NBC News' Chief Science and Health
Why employer-sponsored coverage is unstable
Why Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Changed, 1997-2003
By James D. Reschovsky, Bradley C. Strunk and Paul Ginsburg
Health Affairs
May/June 2006
Once you are insured through an individual plan, you
Proof that insurers selectively advertise to healthy
The Relationship Between Health Plan Advertising And Market Incentives:
Evidence Of Risk-Selective Behavior
Health Affairs
May/June 2006
By Ateev Mehrotra, Sonya Grier and R. Adams Dudley
Previous Medicare managed care