American Medical News
Aug. 25, 2003
Insurers post robust profits for the second quarter
By Robert Kazel
Springtime brought a bumper crop of profits for most of the nation's
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.
NABE Panel: Federal deficit a risk, monetary policy about right,health care needs major reform
National Association for Business Economics
NABE Economic Policy Survey
NABE Panel: Federal deficit a risk, monetary policy about right,health care
needs major reform
August 2003
From the Survey Details:Health Care
AMA opposes single payer health system
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:46:12 -0700
Subject: qotd: AMA opposes single payer health system
American Medical Association
August 12, 2003
AMA opposes single-payer health system
Reiterating the AMA's
Bob LeBow on the Physicians’ Proposal
Robert LeBow, M.D., former president of Physicians for a National Health Program and author of "Health Care Meltdown," speaking at a press conference at City
Bob LeBow on the Physicians' Proposal
Robert LeBow, M.D., former president of Physicians for a National Health Program and author of "Health Care Meltdown," speaking at a press conference at City
JAMA: Physicians reopen the national discussion on
JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
August 13, 2003 Editorial
Universal Health Insurance - Let the Debate Resume By Rashi Fein, PhD
The article by
Uninformed voters threaten health care reform in California
Oakland Tribune
Aug. 8, 2003
Health care proposals featured at forum Fate of reform plans uncertain in light of gubernatorial unrest ,By Rebecca Vesely
Promising to "keep going
Who should own the results of publicly-funded medical research?
The Washington Post
August 5, 2003
A Fight for Free Access To Medical Research
Online Plan Challenges Publishers' Dominance
By Rick Weiss
Why is it, a growing number of people
WellPoint reduces medical loss ratio to zero!
American Medical News
Aug. 4, 2003
PPO "administration fee": Physicians pay to get paid Doctors must pay 3% to 5% of their reimbursement check to a company
Fragmentation is even more destructive than under-funding
The Guardian
July 16, 2003
The oldest and still the best
By Malcolm Dean
In the battle between 10 and 11 Downing Street over the NHS (National Health Service),
Means testing Medicare
The Washington Post
July 17, 2003
Editorial
Medicare Robbery
... Medicare's universality. Many Democrats and some Republicans consider this to be Medicare's central attraction. It is a program, they
Federalism and Health Policy
Health Affairs
Web Exclusive
July 16, 2003
Which Way For Federalism And Health Policy?
What's right, and what's wrong, with the federal-state division of
responsibility for health care.
By John Holahan,