Missouri Foundation for Health
Press Release
November 25, 2003
New Report Details Universal Care for Missouri
The study "A Universal Health Care Plan for Missouri" highlights a coverage plan
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.
Employers’ response to health care costs
Hewitt Associates
Press Release
December 2, 2003
Hewitt Study Shows Employers Critically Concerned with Health Care
Costs and Looking for Creative Solutions
Employers are struggling to cope with continuing
Employers' response to health care costs
Hewitt Associates
Press Release
December 2, 2003
Hewitt Study Shows Employers Critically Concerned with Health Care
Costs and Looking for Creative Solutions
Employers are struggling to cope with continuing double
New York Times interview of Steffie Woolhandler
The New York Times
December 2, 2003
A Conversation with Steffie Woolhandler
Heal Health Care System? Start Anew
By Judy Foreman
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler... an associate professor at Harvard Medical
Gingrich praises HSAs. Watch out!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
11/30/03
Condition of health care system has been upgraded
By Newt Gingrich
The historic Medicare and health savings account legislation that the House and Senate have
Stop the HSA Tsunami!!
Galen Institute
Consumer Choice Matters, #41
11/25/2003
HSA TSUNAMI
By Greg Scandlen
The new Health Savings Accounts (HSA) provision included in the Medicare bill just passed the Senate 54-44 and
In Bob's own words
The Idaho Statesman
November 30, 2003
Doctor who 'walked the walk' dies in Boise at 63
Dr. Bob LeBow, a tireless advocate for health-care reform who was
In Bob’s own words
The Idaho Statesman
November 30, 2003
Doctor who 'walked the walk' dies in Boise at 63
Dr. Bob LeBow, a tireless advocate for health-care reform who was
Urgent need to repeal HSAs!
Los Angeles Times
November 27, 2003
Savings Accounts Key to Drug Law
By Vicki Kemper
... when Republican leaders were scrambling to attract or hold onto the votes of
Seniors oppose current Medicare bill
AFL-CIO
News Release
Nov. 19, 2003
Poll: Seniors Oppose Medicare Bill in Congress
By an almost two-thirds majority, senior Americans say Congress and the White House should work for
Consumers Union: Drug benefit price is too high
Consumers Union
November 17, 2003
Medicare Prescription Drugs:
Conference Committee Agreement Asks Beneficiaries to Pay Too High a Price
For Modest Benefit
By Gail Shearer
Best features of the agreement:
* Provides
Urgent! (1) Support a filibuster, (2) Demand Novelli's resignation television advertising this week, and officials said it was prepared to spend more.
Los Angeles Times
November 17, 2003
Deal Would Alter Medicare's Core
If a compromise bill on prescription drugs passes, the government program
will become a massive subsidized insurance market.
By