FALLING APART - Declining Job-Based Health Coverage for Working Families in California and the United States
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Policy
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.
‘Volunteers in Medicine’ misses the target
Volunteers will staff facility in El Cajon
By Anne Krueger
San Diego Union-Tribune
May 2, 2005
Almost four years after Dr. Gresham Bayne of Point Loma heard the pitch
'Volunteers in Medicine' misses the target
Volunteers will staff facility in El Cajon
By Anne Krueger
San Diego Union-Tribune
May 2, 2005
Almost four years after Dr. Gresham Bayne of Point Loma heard the pitch
W. Shoemaker on Nordstrom-quality care
Wells Shoemaker, M.D., responds on the Nordstrom-quality care proposal by San Diego 'Volunteers in Medicine'
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Nordstrom sells a lot of overpriced merchandise to people who don't
Medicaid out-of-pocket costs growing
New Study Finds Poor Medicaid Beneficiaries Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Medical Costs
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
May 31, 2005
A new Center report finds that out-of-pocket medical
A Paul Martin one-liner
Address by Prime Minister Paul Martin to the Empire Club and Toronto Board of Trade
May 26, 2005
"I believe in a Canada that values and protects
Reform consensus destroyed by health leaders' egos
Health Leaders Seek Consensus Over Uninsured
By Robert Pear
The New York Times
May 29, 2005
At a time when Congress has been torn by partisan battles, 24 ideologically
Reform consensus destroyed by health leaders’ egos
Health Leaders Seek Consensus Over Uninsured
By Robert Pear
The New York Times
May 29, 2005
At a time when Congress has been torn by partisan battles, 24 ideologically
SCHIP's "success" represents incrementalism's failure
Ebbing and Flowing: Some Gains, Some Losses as SCHIP Responds to Third Year of Budget Pressure
By Ian Hill, Brigette Courtot, and Jennifer Sullivan
The Urban Institute
May
SCHIP’s “success” represents incrementalism’s failure
Ebbing and Flowing: Some Gains, Some Losses as SCHIP Responds to Third Year of Budget Pressure
By Ian Hill, Brigette Courtot, and Jennifer Sullivan
The Urban Institute
May
Milliman on shifting costs to employees
Milliman Medical Index 2005
Milliman Inc.
Milliman Inc. has completed its first annual study of the total annual medical costs for a "Typical American Family of Four."
NCHC – Thorpe's analysis of savings makes reform imperative
New Projections From Nation's Largest Health Care Coalition Show Health Care Reform Would Produce Huge Savings
National Coalition on Health Care
Press Release
May 23, 2005
System-wide health care