Health care spending for 2004
Health Affairs
February 11, 2004
Health Spending Projections Through 2013
By Stephen Heffler, Sheila Smith, Sean Keehan, M. Kent Clemens, Mark
Zezza, and Christopher Truffer
Projected
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.
Health insurance for all is possible
The New York Times
February 10, 2004
Health Insurance for All
To the Editor:
The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, states that "it is impossible" to have all Americans
Physicians believe that single-payer would provide the best care
Archives of Internal Medicine
February 9, 2004
Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Physicians' Views
By Danny McCormick, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, David Bor
We surveyed a random sample of physicians in
Frist says that it is impossible to cover all Americans
The New York Times
February 7, 2004
Frist Expects Congress to Try to Expand Health Coverage
By Robert Pear
The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said on Friday that
Employers are segregating retirees into high-cost risk pools
The New York Times
February 3, 2004
Companies Limit Health Coverage of Many Retirees
By Milt Freudenheim
Employers have unleashed a new wave of cutbacks in company-paid health benefits
Shifting health care costs to teachers and state employees
WHAS11.COM
February 2, 2004
Kentucky News
Raising health insurance on teachers, state employees caught Republicans off guard By Charles Wolfe / Associated Press
Gov. Ernie Fletcher's proposal to make
Politics and egos: Can we compromise?
Rocky Mountain News
January 30, 2004
Politics blamed for impeding health care
By Rachel Brand
Health insurance for all Americans is again likely to become a presidential campaign issue...
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Uwe Reinhardt responds to Joel Segal's comments on the moral outrage of uninsurance
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Joel Segal's comments on the moral outrage of our failure to enact a program of universal health care (which was in
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Joel Segal’s comments on the moral outrage of uninsurance
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Joel Segal's comments on the moral outrage of our failure to enact a program of universal health care (which was in
Mr. Bush's unhealthy inaction
The Washington Post
January 25, 2004
Editorial
Unhealthy
For an insight into the inadequacy of the president's health care proposals
put forward in his State of the Union speech last
Mr. Bush’s unhealthy inaction
The Washington Post
January 25, 2004
Editorial
Unhealthy
For an insight into the inadequacy of the president's health care proposals
put forward in his State of the Union speech last
Medicare bill calls for vote of Congress on health care coverage for all Americans
H.R.1
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
Title X - Medicaid and Miscellaneous Provisions
Subtitle B - Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 1014 - Health Care that