A Widening Rift In Access And Quality: Growing Evidence Of Economic Disparities
By Robert E. Hurley, Hoangmai H. Pham, Gary Claxton
Health Affairs
December 6, 2005
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.
BC of California loses 68% of premiums to health care
Health Plan Costs Come Under Fire
At a hearing in L.A., Garamendi grills insurance company executives about why premiums have soared 60% in four years.
By Lisa
Our health-care system is not what the best minds woulddevise
Editorial: Fractured system hurts everyone
By Register Editorial Board
The Des Moines Register
December 4, 2005
If the best minds in the world gathered to devise a health-care system
We’re almost there with three single payer bills
H.R.676, H.R.1200, and SB 840
Do not waste your time studying these bill summaries, but merely skim through them rapidly. You will see how a fairly
We're almost there with three single payer bills
H.R.676, H.R.1200, and SB 840
Do not waste your time studying these bill summaries, but merely skim through them rapidly. You will see how a fairly
No problem – Just set up an insurance purchasing pool
What Health Insurance Pools Can and Can't Do
By Rick Curtis and Ed Neuschler
California HealthCare Foundation
November 2005
Introduction
Is targeting subsidies to small business the answer?
Is Small Business the Key to Insuring More Californians?
By Richard Kronick
California HealthCare Foundation
November 2005
Coverage Expansion
Introduction
There is substantial interest among policy analysts and politicians in increasing
BC/BS of Tennessee – a profitable nonprofit
The Best Of Times And The Worst Of Times: A Conversation With Vicky Gregg
Health Affairs
November 29, 2005
The CEO of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee describes what
Single payer as an issue for “Unpartisans”
It's my party, and I'll vie if I want to
By Brad Warthen, Editorial Page Editor
The State.com
Nov. 27, 2005
Why is it so hard for partisans and
Single payer as an issue for "Unpartisans"
It's my party, and I'll vie if I want to
By Brad Warthen, Editorial Page Editor
The State.com
Nov. 27, 2005
Why is it so hard for partisans and
Cost-sharing can increase health care spending
When patients have to pay a share of drug costs: effects on frequency of physician visits, hospital admissions and filling of prescriptions
By Aslam H. Anis,
So you want the same insurance as members of Congress
Health insurance open season is opportunity to save
By Tim Kauffman
Federal Times
November 21, 2005
Federal employees and retirees can save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars next year