Medicare's Hidden Administrative Costs: A Comparison of Medicare and the Private Sector
By Merrill Matthews, Ph.D.
The Council for Affordable Health Insurance
January 10, 2006
Executive Summary
One of the
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.
Health spending up, but who pays?
National Health Spending In 2004: Recent Slowdown Led By Prescription Drug Spending
By Cynthia Smith, Cathy Cowan, Stephen Heffler, Aaron Catlin the National Health Accounts Team
Stable physician Medicare participation may represent anunstable system
Physician Acceptance of New Medicare Patients Stabilizes in 2004-05
By Peter J. Cunningham, Andrea Staiti, Paul B. Ginsburg
Center for Studying Health System Change
January 2006
Despite an earlier
Is state by state Fair Share Health Care the answer?
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Remarks on Fair Share Health Care Campaign
AFL-CIO
January 5, 2006
...AFL-CIO unions are taking bold steps and paving the way -- state-by-state and
U.K. Conservative Party reverses stand on health policy?
U.K. Conservative Party Reverses Health-Care Policy
Bloomberg.com
January 4, 2006
U.K. Conservative leader David Cameron reversed his party's policy on health care, abandoning a pledge to help fund
Medi-Cal's 5 percent rate reduction
Cuts to Medi-Cal threaten program's future
By Sandy Kleffman
Contra Costa Times
January 3, 2006
Beginning this week, the state will cut by 5 percent its reimbursement rate for
Public system in Alberta reduces queues
Public system achieved health-care success
Letter by Doris Grinspun, RN, Executive Director, Registered Nurses'
Association of Ontario, Toronto
Toronto Star
Dec. 30, 2005
Romanow has the last word for 2005
For-profit health care costly, inefficient
Toronto Star
Sep. 19, 2005
An edited excerpt of a speech by former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow about the June 9 Supreme Court
Health Affairs most-read article, and two women with cancer
2005 Year in Review: Health Affairs' 25 Most-Read Articles
Health Affairs
December 28, 2005 (e-mail)
In 2005, Health Affairs' Web readership topped 9 million pageviews. The article on
Swiss government rejects single payer
Government turns down national health scheme Swissinfo
NZZ Online
December 10, 2005
The cabinet has come out against a proposal to set up a national health insurance scheme,
Urban Institute's view of incrementalism
Lowering Financial Burdens and Increasing Health Insurance Coverage for Those with High Medical Costs
By Linda J. Blumberg, Lisa Clemans-Cope, and Fredric Blavin
The Urban Institute
December 2005
Health
Urban Institute’s view of incrementalism
Lowering Financial Burdens and Increasing Health Insurance Coverage for Those with High Medical Costs
By Linda J. Blumberg, Lisa Clemans-Cope, and Fredric Blavin
The Urban Institute
December 2005
Health