ABC News
Oct. 21, 2003
Critical Condition
Excerpts from Peter Jennings interview of ABC News' Medical Editor Dr.Tim Johnson:
Jennings: The conventional wisdom is Americans like to think that
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.
Seniors were better off before Medicare?!
The New York Times
October 22, 2003
Workers Feel Pinch of Rising Health Costs
By Milt Freudenheim
The figures for big companies reflect a broader shift in the American
Public now supports a universal health insurance program
The Washington Post
October 19, 2003
Poll: Public Supports Health Care for All
By Will Lester
The public's growing unease with the current health care system has built
support for
109 more options for reform
The Seattle Times
October 14, 2003
Health care for the economy
By Kathleen O'Connor
Administrative expenses devour a 150-percent larger share of America's health-care spending than our competitors in
NCPA uses real data to create false conclusions
Advertiser-Tribune.com
October 14, 2003
Uninsured at times is choice of consumer
Only a very small percentage of the uninsured truly have no access to health insurance and go
PacifiCare's "game show" rewards for healthy lifestyles
American Medical News
Oct. 20, 2003
Plans offer prizes to push patients to healthy living
By Robert Kazel
Some health plans are offering rewards ranging from CD-ROMs and exercise
equipment
PacifiCare’s “game show” rewards for healthy lifestyles
American Medical News
Oct. 20, 2003
Plans offer prizes to push patients to healthy living
By Robert Kazel
Some health plans are offering rewards ranging from CD-ROMs and exercise
equipment
Risk of small risk pools
OC Weekly
October 10 - 16, 2003
Million-Dollar Munchkins
By Nick Schou
Huntington Beach City Council members aren't in the job for the money: as part-time Surf City employees,
Adverse implications of changing health plans
Annals of Family Medicine
September/October 2003
On Being New to an Insurance Plan: Health Care Use Associated With the First Years in a Health Insurance Plan
By Peter
Nobel laureates and public funding of research versus marketplace innovation
The Scientist
October 6, 2003
MRI scientists win Nobel Prize
For the third time since 1951, scientists working in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance technology have been
43.6 million without health insurance in 2002
U.S. Census Bureau
September 30, 2003
Health Insurance Coverage: 2002
* An estimated 15.2 percent of the population or 43.6 million people were without health insurance coverage
Canada’s council for health policy and accountability
Toronto Star
Sep. 26, 2003
Ottawa, provinces agree to national health council
The federal government and provinces have reached agreement on the creation
of a 27-member national health council,
