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For more than 20 years, PNHPā€™s 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. McCanneā€™s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.

Mercer survey of employer-sponsored health plans

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Health benefit cost slows for a third year, rising just 6.1% in 2005
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
November 21, 2005

When annual health benefit cost increases peaked three

Donald Berwick speaks up

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'A Deficiency Of Will And Ambition': A Conversation With Donald Berwick
By Robert Galvin
Health Affairs
January 12, 2005

Donald Berwick is president and chief executive officer of the

Can we afford long-term care?

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Developing a Better Long-Term Care Policy: A Vision and Strategy for America's Future
Sheila P. Burke, Judith Feder, and Paul N. Van de Water (eds.)
National Academy

John Wennberg is howling in the wind

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Important notice: It is likely that you will read the abstract of this report, yawn, and then delete the message. Don't delete it! This study

Krugman on free markets for health insurance

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Health Economics 101
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
November 14, 2005

Several readers have asked me a good question: we rely on free markets to deliver most

PPOs up, HMOs down

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Uncertain prognosis: California workers face a whirlwind of change as employers seek alternatives to costly HMOs
By Clea Benson
The Sacramento Bee
November 9, 2005

Because HMOs are more