HSAs encourage tax evasion
The Journal Gazette
Sep. 5, 2004
New health accounts allow more individual control
By Sherry Slater
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.
PNHP on drug prices
Chicago Tribune
May 8, 2004
Voice of the People
Medicine prices
By Ida Hellander, MD, Executive director; Quentin Young, MD, National
coordinator; Physicians for a National Health Program
Chicago -- This
Fraser Institue report on Canada is without credibility
The Fraser Institute
May 2004
How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2004 Report
By Nadeem Esmail and Michael Walker with Sabrina Yeudall
Conclusion
This study has attempted to provide answers
Medco CEO unrepetant for ethical lapses
The Washington Post
May 6, 2004
Letter to the Editor
Rebates, Not Kickbacks
Steven Pearlstein's April 28 Business column, "Kickbacks Hit Where It Hurts," mischaracterized the settlement reached by
Quentin Young on the solution to outrageous drug prices
USA TODAY, Editorial/Opinion
5/4/2004
Follow Canada's example
By Quentin Young
Forget about importing Canadian drugs. We need to import Canadian drug prices.
How does Canada and most other developed nations
Why is U.S. spending so high, and can we afford it?
Health Affairs
May/June 2004
U.S. Health Care Spending In An International Context
Why is U.S. spending so high, and can we afford it?
By Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S.
M. Livingston on higher health insurance rates for women
Martha Livingston, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health and Society, SUNY College at Old Westbury, responds to the message on the insurance industry effectively classifying female
Being female is a preexisitng disorder?
The Hartford Courant
April 22, 2004
ConnectiCare Joining Gender Trend
By Diane Levick
ConnectiCare plans to start charging thousands of women higher health insurance rates than men - a
Reinvention of health insurance in the consumer era
JAMA
April 21, 2004
Reinvention of Health Insurance in the Consumer Era
By James C. Robinson, PhD, MPH
The new products and policies will test the limits of US
Kaiser Permanente follows the market
Contra Costa Times
Apr. 29, 2004
Kaiser adds deductibles to some insurance plans
By Judy Silber
Kaiser Permanente is the last large insurer to add deductibles to individual insurance
Canada's Health Minister shifts and sides with the people
The Globe and Mail
April 29, 2004
Pettigrew clarifies health-care statements
By Campbell Clark and Brian Laghi
AND
Calgary Herald
April 29, 2004
From good to bad in hours
By Tom Olsen
Health Minister
Canada’s Health Minister shifts and sides with the people
The Globe and Mail
April 29, 2004
Pettigrew clarifies health-care statements
By Campbell Clark and Brian Laghi
AND
Calgary Herald
April 29, 2004
From good to bad in hours
By Tom Olsen
Health Minister