Consumer Decision Making In The Individual Health Insurance Market
A study in California suggests that the individual market is an important source of long-term coverage
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.
Higher-income uninsured do not receive recommended services
Use of Health Care Services by Lower-Income and Higher-Income Uninsured Adults
By Joseph S. Ross, MD, Elizabeth H. Bradley, PhD, and Susan H. Busch, PhD
JAMA
May 3,
FOX NEWS on the single-payer solution
In U.S Hospitals, Emergency Care in Critical Condition
By Don Snyder
FOX NEWS
May 1, 2006
Data from the American College of Emergency Physicians, which represents 23,000 ER doctors,
Krugman – Death by Insurance
Death By Insurance
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
May 1, 2006
For lower-income working Americans, lack of health insurance is quickly becoming the new normal. That's the
Political momentum building for single payer reform
California Healthline
April 28, 2006
Candidates Endorse Single-Payer Health System
All six candidates for the Democratic nomination for the 6th District Assembly seat support a single-payer health care
Enthoven and Herzlinger on consumer-driven health care
Is consumer-driven health care a good idea?
Family Practice News
April 1, 2006
Point
Regina Herzlinger, D.B.A., is chair of the business school at Harvard University, Boston.
Unlike the automotive
Uninsurance is no longer just for low-income families
Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem
By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Karen Davis, Ph.D., Michelle M. Doty, Ph.D., Jennifer L. Kriss, and Alyssa L. Holmgren
The
$1.6 billion for UnitedHealth's McGuire
UnitedHealth Panel May Face Scrutiny
By Joshua Freed | SFGate.com
Originally published April 23, 2006
The huge paydays for UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chairman and CEO William McGuire grabbed
WSJ: Government-Funded Care Is the Best Health Solution
The Wall Street Journal
Government-Funded Care Is the Best Health Solution By Benjamin Brewer, M.D.
April 18, 2006
A recently approved Massachusetts plan designed to force all residents
Allan Hubbard explains the president's health reform plan
World Health Care Congress
April 19, 2006
Bush Administration's Health Reform Plan Allan Hubbard, Director, National Economic Council, The White House
Since it doesn't work for either acute
Single Payer, By Default
San Diego Physician
February/March 2006
Single Payer, By Default
By Don McCanne, M.D.
(Editor's Note: Though Dr. McCanne's article is not the position of the San Diego County Medical
Private insurers' control of the marketplace (AMA report)
(Today's message addresses one of the most important perversities in our flawed system of funding health care. It needs to be included in every dialogue