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
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.
Genomics, bioinformatics, and single payer
Decoding Health Insurance
By Robin Cook
The New York Times
May 22, 2005
In this dawning era of genomic medicine, the result may be that the concept of private
Moderate and populist Republicans favor tax-supported,government health insurance
The Pew Research Center
Survey Report
Beyond Red vs. Blue
May 10, 2005
Health Insurance
Solid majorities of every group, with the sole exception of Enterprisers, favor a government guarantee
Quentin Young on health care costs for business
A National Plan
Health costs making big business ill
By Quentin Young, a Chicago physician and coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program
Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2005
On
Coverage of vaccines by private plans
Coverage Of Vaccines In Private Health Plans: What Does The Public Prefer?
By Matthew M. Davis and Kathryn Fant
Health Affairs
May/June 2005
The future of Medicaid is not in good hands
Medicaid commission draws unusual interest
By Julie Rovner
Reuters
May 13, 2005
When it comes to the Medicaid health program for the poor, the question in Washington has moved
The disturbing decline of primary care
Career Plans for Trainees in Internal Medicine Residency Programs
By Richard A. Garibaldi, MD, Carol Popkave, MA and Wayne Bylsma, PhD
Academic Medicine
May 2005
Primary care is in
Two-tiered Medicare?
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Ruling No. 05-01
May 3, 2005
TITLE: Requirements for Determining Coverage of Presbyopia-Correcting Intraocular Lenses that Provide Two Distinct Services for the
Paying for health care for illegal immigrants
Payments to Help Hospitals Care for Illegal Immigrants
By Robert Pear
The New York Times
May 10, 2005
The Bush administration announced on Monday that it would start paying
Does insurance make health care affordable?
Health Insurance: Can Californians Afford It?
California HealthCare Foundation
May 3, 2005
For minimum-wage workers and the chronically ill, the cost of health insurance is increasingly unaffordable and
Shifting from co-payments to coinsurance
Firms passing on cost of care
By Marguerite Higgins
The Washington Times
May 3, 2005
... out-of-pocket costs, which jumped 9 percent for workers at large companies last year,
Covering the uninsured through compromise?
kaisernetwork.org
HealthCast
Cover the Uninsured Week National Launch Event Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other organizations
4/27/2005
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., MBA, president and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation: