Hospitals probed on free-care billing
By Christopher Rowland
The Boston Globe
February 11, 2006
Attorney General Thomas Reilly's office is investigating excessive billing by hospitals to the state's $800
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.
Low physician density does not impair access,unless you're uninsured
How Adults' Access to Outpatient Physician Services Relates to the Local Supply of Primary Care Physicians in the Rural Southeast
By Donald E. Pathman, Thomas C.
Federal funding of high risk pools
H.R. 4519
The Library of Congress
THOMAS
2/3/2006 - Presented to President.
State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2006
Seed grants to states for creation and initial operation
It's the high deductible, not the HSA cash account
Pearlstein Live
washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2006
Steven Pearlstein writes about business and the economy for The Washington Post. This is from a transcript of his online discussion.
Using technology better
Is Technological Change In Medicine Always Worth It? The Case Of Acute Myocardial Infarction
By Jonathan S. Skinner, Douglas O. Staiger, Elliott S. Fisher
Health Affairs
February 7,
Reinhardt on HSAs and having "skin in the game"
Economist bashes Bush HSA proposal
United Press International
February 6, 2006
President Bush's health savings account (HSA) plan will mean income-based healthcare rationing, an economist said Tuesday.
"Should healthcare
Internal and external validity and the RAND HIE
By Don McCanne, M.D.
In a KPBS debate between James Knight and Don McCanne on consumer-directed health care and health savings accounts, Dr. Knight stated, "...
RAND – Eliminating copays can reduce health care spending
Varying Pharmacy Benefits With Clinical Status: The Case of Cholesterol-lowering Therapy
By Dana P. Goldman, PhD; Geoffrey F. Joyce, PhD; and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, PhD (From the
FEHBP's initial experience with HDHPs & HSAs
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program First-Year Experience with High-Deductible Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts
GAO
January 2006
Like many large employers, the FEHBP has expanded enrollee health
KPBS debate on HSAs
These Days:
What is consumer-directed health care?
Tom Fudge
KPBS
Feb. 1, 2006
In his State of the Union address, President Bush pushed for the expansion of tax-free health savings
State of the Union on health care
State of the Union Address
President George W. Bush
The White House
January 31, 2006
Keeping America competitive requires affordable health care. (Applause.) Our government has a responsibility to
The collapse of primary care, and the SGR
The Impending Collapse of Primary Care Medicine and Its Implications for the State of the Nation's Health Care
American College of Physicians
January 30, 2006
Conclusion
Unless immediate and