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,
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.
Canada's MRI and CT scanners
Canada Newswire
Sept. 24, 2003
Release from Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
CIHI report shows dramatic increase in MRI, CT scans and scanners
A new national report on
Canada’s MRI and CT scanners
Canada Newswire
Sept. 24, 2003
Release from Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
CIHI report shows dramatic increase in MRI, CT scans and scanners
A new national report on
B. Capell responds on the importance of lobbying
Beth Capell, Ph.D. responds on the AAHP/HIAA merger and the importance
of lobbying:
A formidable insurance lobby
The Hill
September 23, 2003
Insurance trade groups OK merger
AAHP and HIAA consolidates Hill lobbying efforts
By Michael S. Gerber
Washington, D.C.'s two largest health insurance trade groups (The
Medicaid becoming merely a means tested certification
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU)
News release on Medicaid reductions
September 22, 2003
In the Past Three Years, Two-thirds of States Have Reduced Eligibility and
Restricted
50 percent employee contribution to health care!?
The Providence Journal
September 21, 2003
There's no shelter from this storm
By John Kostrzewa
Employees used to contribute about 15 percent of the cost of health care. Now,
OPM director lauds FEHBP increases
The Washington Post
September 17, 2003
Health Plan Costs Up 10.6%
By Christopher Lee
Health insurance premiums for federal employees and retirees (under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program)
Rhetoric of universal insurance
The Washington Post
September 16, 2003
Proposals for Expanding Health Care Coverage
By Julie Ishida
While the uninsured are left to deal with the consequences of being uninsured, policymakers
Health and longevity do not burden Medicare
The New England Journal of Medicine
September 11, 2003
Health, Life Expectancy, and Health Care Spending among the Elderly
By James Lubitz, M.P.H., Liming Cai, Ph.D., Ellen Kramarow,
Alain Enthoven states that single payer may be inevitiable
Health Affairs
Web Exclusive
August 11, 2003
Excerpt from a letter from Stephen M. Davidson, Professor, Health Care Management, Boston University school of Management, responding to Alain Enthoven's
Public employee health programs no longer guarantee
The Plain Dealer
09/07/03
Free health care disappearing for retired public employees
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Free health care, once an expectation for many of Ohio's retired public employees, will