Detroit Free Press
April 1, 2003
For UAW, health pay is a crisis nationally
By Jeffrey McCracken
The head of the United Auto Workers put automakers on notice Monday:
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.
Breaking the backbone of primary care
American Academy of Family Physicians
Press release
March 20, 2003
Medical Student Interest in Primary Care Continues to Decline
A health plan for the rotating pool of uninsured
(In reading today's quote, please ignore the deficiencies of a verbatim transcript of a spontaneous response given during the Q&A segment of the presentation, but
Permanent health insecurity
Washington Post
March 24, 2003
Bethlehem Retirees' Benefits to End
By Adam Geller
Company-paid health benefits for 30,000 white-collar Bethlehem Steel retirees will end this month, after a bankruptcy
The failure of Medicare PPOs is in marketing?
Chicago Tribune
March 23, 2003
Seniors spurning pilot Medicare PPO effort
By Bruce Japsen
A new and highly touted Bush administration effort to help Medicare patients pay for prescription
Middle-class uninsured?
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
March 2003
The New Middle-Class of Uninsured Americans - Is it Real?
by John Holahan, Catherine Hoffman, and Marie Wang
Summary
Controlling drug costs through Medicare's allowable charges
The Boston Globe
3/21/2003
Editorial
The Medicare cure
The Bush administration is so eager to shift Medicare recipients into HMOs that one might assume private insurers have a better
Controlling drug costs through Medicare’s allowable charges
The Boston Globe
3/21/2003
Editorial
The Medicare cure
The Bush administration is so eager to shift Medicare recipients into HMOs that one might assume private insurers have a better
"Send 'em to County"
Monterey County - The Herald
Mar 21, 2003
Doctors lament Natividad woes
By Joe Livernois
Dr. Pedro Moreno is frustrated.
Among the hundreds of patients he sees as a family
“Send ’em to County”
Monterey County - The Herald
Mar 21, 2003
Doctors lament Natividad woes
By Joe Livernois
Dr. Pedro Moreno is frustrated.
Among the hundreds of patients he sees as a family
The futility of indigent care networks
Star-Telegram
Mar. 16, 2003
Indigent care network envisioned
By Mitch Mitchell
A new group, the Healthy Communities Coalition, has been working for two years to develop a plan to
Top priority for business is affordability of health care
Public Opinion Strategies
March 13, 2003
Survey of Small, Medium and Large Businesses
When asked about the most important goal for reforming our health care
system, business leaders focus