America's Health Insurance Plans
2006 National Policy Forum
3/7/2006
Prospects and Implications of Tax Policy for the Health Care Industry Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute
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.
Marmor and Mashaw on social insurance
Understanding Social Insurance: Fairness, Affordability, and the 'Modernization' of Social Security and Medicare
By Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw
Health Affairs
March 21, 2006
Medical-loss ratios of largest for-profit insurers
Health plans make more, spend less in 2005
By Jonathan G. Bethely
American Medical News
March 6, 2006
If physicians needed any more indication of tightening reimbursement, how about
Kinsley's reform we should try before we go single payer
Before We Go 'Single Payer': Insurance Reforms We Should Try
By Michael Kinsley
The Washington Post
March 17, 2006
The small fraction of people involved in auto accidents in
Is medical care lacking but equal?
Who Is at Greatest Risk for Receiving Poor-Quality Health Care?
By Steven M. Asch, M.D., M.P.H., Eve A. Kerr, M.D., M.P.H., Joan Keesey, B.A., John L.
America's quality care is going to the dogs
Toronto Star
Mar. 5, 2006
Canadian taxpayers should have full access to the system - and doctors - they pay for By Linda McQuaig
The wonderful thing about
Los Angeles Times notes momentum of single payer
Why pick on Wal-Mart?
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
March 2, 2006
Although healthcare spending is expected to jump to $4 trillion in the next decade - to 20% of
Medicaid's Health Opportunity Accounts
Medicaid to offer HSA pilot program
By Amy Snow Landa
American Medical News
March 13, 2006
Health savings accounts aren't just for the private market anymore.
President Bush has signed
Is European-style insurance the answer?
Universal Health Coverage Does Not Require Single-Payer System, Op-Ed States
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
July 3, 2006
Does someone want to tell Steven Hill and his colleagues
Stretching the brittle Medicaid dollar
Can States Stretch The Medicaid Dollar Without Passing The Buck? Lessons From Utah
By Samantha Artiga, David Rousseau, Barbara Lyons, Stephen Smith and Daniel S. Gaylin
Health
The health care crisis and what to do about it
The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It
By Paul Krugman, Robin Wells
The New York Review of Books
March 23, 2006
The good news is that
AHPs for the Blues
Sen. Enzi To Introduce Compromise Legislation on Association Health Plans
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
March 3, 2006