Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
June 18, 2003
House Ways and Means Panel Approves Medicare Reform Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee on June 17 voted 25-15
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.
"Death spiral" of traditional Medicare
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
June 18, 2003
House Ways and Means Panel Approves Medicare Reform Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee on June 17 voted 25-15
Vulture PacifiCare is circling CalPERS
Los Angeles Times
June 18, 2003
CalPERS Members Object to Rate Hike
By Debora Vrana and Ronald D. White
The California Public Employees' Retirement System is facing a growing
Uninsurance: Costs, and value lost (IOM report)
Institute of Medicine
The National Academies Press
Hidden Costs, Value Lost
Uninsurance in America
The best available estimate of the value of uncompensated health care services provided to persons
N.C. Blue Cross evades those who most need coverage
The Charlotte Observer
June 5, 2003
Blue Cross last-resort coverage reaches few
By Emery P. Dalesio
While North Carolina's largest health insurer technically remains its insurer of last resort,
AMA to vote on single payor (sic)
The following resolution is being considered by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at their meeting in Chicago this week.
American Medical Association
Maine succeeds in adopting nonviable reform
Portland Press Herald
June 14, 2003
Innovative health bill embraced
By Josie Huang
State lawmakers embraced one of the nation's most ambitious attempts at health-care reform Friday, passing a
** Legislative Alert** Private drug-only policies: Actuarial perspectives
(The legislative alert appears at the end of this message.)
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation June 2003 Medicare Prescription Drugs Through Private Drug-Only Policies: A
AHPs would harm many small employers
Mercer Risk, Finance & Insurance
Prepared for: National Small Business United
June 2003
Impact of Association Health Plan Legislation on Premiums and Coverage for
Small Employers
By Beth Fritchen FSA,
D. Light on Enthoven's model
Donald W. Light, Ph.D. responds on Enthoven's managed competition model:
Hope springs eternal for Enthoven. He forgets his own previous analyses, where he describes how
Private health plans unable to contain costs
Health Affairs
Web Exclusive
11 June 2003
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Stabilize But Remain High In 2002
by Bradley C. Strunk and Paul B. Ginsburg
Health care spending per
D. Light on Enthoven’s model
Donald W. Light, Ph.D. responds on Enthoven's managed competition model:
Hope springs eternal for Enthoven. He forgets his own previous analyses, where he describes how
