Wages, Health Benefits, and Workers' Health
By Sara R. Collins, Karen Davis, Michelle M. Doty, and Alice Ho
The Commonwealth Fund - October 2004
Eighty-eight percent of employees
For more than 20 years, PNHP’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. McCanne’s listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
Health Coverage Expansion is Failing
Progress On Health Coverage Is Threatened As States Continue To Face Growing Pressures To Control Costs
Kaiser Family Foundation - News Release
October 4, 2004
With continuing budget
The Looming National Benefit Crisis
By Dennis Cauchon and John Waggoner
USA TODAY - 10/4/2004
The long-term economic health of the United States is threatened by $53 trillion in government debts and
Blue Cross Chief Warns of Impending Peril
By Jerri Stroud
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
09/29/2004
The health care industry needs to get its house in order before the government imposes a system that no one will
Kucinich wants government to oversee drug research
In follow-up to today's message on drug patent monopolies:
By Susan Jaffe
The Plain Dealer
September 29, 2004
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich proposed a new federal law Wednesday that
Europe's Drug Import Example
Letter to the Editor
The Washington Post
September 30, 2004
Last year I led researchers at the London School of Economics in testing whether the practice of reimporting
Europe’s Drug Import Example
Letter to the Editor
The Washington Post
September 30, 2004
Last year I led researchers at the London School of Economics in testing whether the practice of reimporting
HSAs Save Millions, But Only For the Healthy
Business Wire
September 29, 2004
Golden Rule Customers Exceed $110 Million Saved in Health Savings Accounts; HSA Sales Reflect Growing Popularity of Lower-Cost Health Insurance
Golden Rule Insurance
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?
Families USA
September 2004
In 2004, there were 14.3 million Americans whose health care costs totaled more than one-quarter of their earnings-up from 11.6 million in 2000,
U.S. Health Plan Includes One With Catholic Tenets
By Milt Freudenheim
The New York Times
September 25, 2004
The Bush administration has broken new ground in its "faith-based" initiative, this time by offering federal employees a
Is "Moral Hazard" Inefficient? The Policy Implications of a New Theory
By John A. Nyman
Health Affairs
September/October 2004
Excerpts:
Insurers call the change in behavior that occurs when a person becomes insured "moral hazard." Moral hazard occurs, for example,
Is “Moral Hazard” Inefficient? The Policy Implications of a New Theory
By John A. Nyman
Health Affairs
September/October 2004
Excerpts:
Insurers call the change in behavior that occurs when a person becomes insured "moral hazard." Moral hazard occurs, for example,
