Princeton University Office of Community and State Affairs, 2005 Symposium of New Jersey Issues
April 15, 2005
The Unhealthy State of Health Insurance for American Children
Uwe E.
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.
What are we purchasing from the private plans?
Passing the Buck
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
April 22, 2005
Isn't competition supposed to make the private sector more efficient than the public sector? Well, as
The U.S. stands alone in officially denying health care as a right
The United Nations
Commission on Human Rights
April 15, 2005
Medicare coverage of new technology
Medicare's dilemma grows: How far to go in coverage
By Julie Appleby
USA Today
4/21/2005
...an ongoing dilemma for Medicare: whether to pay for a treatment when data on
Socialized medicine – from Republicans!
Socialized Medicine? From Republicans?
By Matt Miller
Fortune
May 2, 2005
What do General Motors' woes, the Medicare prescription-drug law, the state and local health-care time bomb..., and Congress's
The real problem is that too many are insured
American Medical News
April 25, 2005
Uninsured a problem hard to grasp, solve
By Joel B. Finkelstein
...disagreement over exactly how many uninsured Americans there are continues to muddy
California's Medicaid managed care a failure
AcademyHealth
March 2005
Managed Care Mandates Fall Short of Curbing California Medicaid Costs
By Bonnie J. Austin, J.D.
California’s Medicaid managed care a failure
AcademyHealth
March 2005
Managed Care Mandates Fall Short of Curbing California Medicaid Costs
By Bonnie J. Austin, J.D.
Waiting times for non-emergency surgeries in Canada
Statistics Canada
Median waiting times for non-emergency surgeries, household population aged
15 and over, Canada and provinces, 2003
Median waiting time (weeks): 4.3
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Medicare Part D asset test
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
April 2005
Low-Income Subsidies for the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit:
The Impact of the Asset Test
By Thomas Rice, Ph.D. and Katherine A.
Montana Family Medicine Residency
The Coastal Research Group
Sixteenth National Conference on
Primary Health Care Access
April 10-12, 2005
The Eleventh J. Jerry Rodos Lecture:
Roxanne Fahrenwald, M.D., Director, Montana Family Medicine Residency:
"The man
Private plans haven't delivered the cure
The Orange County Register
April 10, 2005
Private plans haven't delivered the cure
By Don R. McCanne, M.D.
Bruce Bodaken, CEO of Blue Shield of California, warns that, unless