Shortages of Medical Personnel at Community Health Centers Implications for Planned Expansion
By Roger A. Rosenblatt, MD, MPH; C. Holly A. Andrilla, MS; Thomas Curtin, MD;
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.
Managed care is alive and sick
Doctors object to ultimatum on health care
By Cheryl Clark
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 26, 2006
Dozens of doctors are protesting a Sharp physician network's demand that their
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Favorite Union Endorses HR 676
The Executive Board of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East has unanimously endorsed HR 676, a bill to legislate a single payer health care system in
AHIP pays for Dranove and Millenson's swift boat tickets
Medical Bankruptcy: Myth Versus Fact
This response to a widely cited paper by David Himmelstein and colleagues challenges the basis of its conclusions.
By David Dranove and
Medical debt is not created by deadbeats
Bankruptcy Reform's Impact: Where are all the "deadbeats"?
National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
February 22, 2006
The following are key findings from a National Association of Consumer
Desperation over medical bills drives woman to crime
Online armor sales net prison, fine
By Steve Liewer
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 23, 2006
A Vista woman was sentenced to prison yesterday for buying from Camp Pendleton
Brailer implicitly supports Wygod's next big thing
WebMD Wants to Go Beyond Information
By Milt Freudenheim
The New York Times
February 23, 2006
Marty Wygod, the entrepreneurial deal maker who built WebMD Health into one of
Health care spending in 2006
Health Spending Projections Through 2015: Changes On The Horizon
By Christine Borger, Sheila Smith, Christopher Truffer, Sean Keehan, Andrea Sisko, John Poisal, M. Kent Clemens (from
Half of small business owners believe single payer is inevitable
SMC Business Councils Releases Health Care Survey Results
PR Newswire
February 20, 2006
(SMC Business Councils is a non-profit trade association representing 3,500 small business owners in western
"National Health Access" isn't
Top firms' plan for uninsured stumbles
By Bruce Japsen
Chicago Tribune
February 18, 2006
A landmark health-care plan offering benefits to millions of uninsured workers and initially sponsored by
Projected increased public health spending in OECD nations
Projecting OECD health and long-term care expenditures: What are the main drivers?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
ECO/WKP(2006)5
February 3, 2006
Are $100,000 drugs a right?
British Clinic Is Allowed to Deny Medicine
By Sarah Lyall
The New York Times
February 16, 2006
When her local health service refused to treat her (early-stage) breast cancer