PNHP

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.

Tax cuts, health spending, and reviving the economy

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Medicaid Responsiveness, Health Coverage, and Economic Resilience:
A Preliminary Analysis
By Stan Dorn (The Economic and Social Research Institute), Barbara Markham Smith (Health Policy Innovation, Inc.) and

Priced out of health insurance, or health care?

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'Skeletal' benefits in doubt
Critics say cut-rate policies offer little coverage in need
By Victoria Colliver
San Francisco Chronicle
September 21, 2005

As health care costs soar, insurers are offering

Health insurance churning

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Entrances and Exits: Health Insurance Churning, 1998-2000
By Kathryn Klein, Sherry Glied, and Danielle Ferry
The Commonwealth Fund
September 2005

Abstract:

Beth Capell responds on the Medicaid waivers

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Beth Capell, Ph.D., Policy Consultant for Health Access California, responds on the Medicaid waivers:

Don:

As bleak as your assessment is, it is not bleak enough.

In Utah

Medicaid waiver extortion

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Waiting for Action
Right Words but Little Practical Help for Poor
By David S. Broder
The Washington Post
September 22, 2005

Medical care for the evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi and