USA TODAY
3/6/2003
Editorial/Opinion
USA TODAY's view:
Affordable remedies ignored as nation's health woes soar
Perhaps the best measure of the depth of the nation's health care troubles is this:
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.
Why does Aetna need racial and ethnic data?
The Washington Post
March 5, 2003
The Associated Press
Report: Aetna Collecting Minority Data
Aetna Inc. has begun collecting data on the racial and ethnic backgrounds of some of
Bush proposal to modernize and defund Medicare
The White House
March 4, 2003
President to Announce Framework to Modernize and Improve Medicare
Excerpt from the Executive Summary:
Option 1-Traditional Medicare
Health reimbursement arrangements fall short on coverage
The New York Times
March 2, 2003
A New Health Plan Works, at Least for the Healthy
By Beth Kobliner
Last fall, Mrs. Welborn, 32, a senior training specialist
Aetna eliminates markets with high-cost patients
Aetna
Press Release
February 11, 2003
Aetna Reports Fourth Quarter And Full-year 2002 Results
"In 2002, Aetna improved its financial performance," said John W. Rowe, M.D., chairman and CEO.
Reinhardt responds to Socoalar on price disparities
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Deborah Socolar on her comments about price disparities:
In connection with price disparities in health care, I wonder what Deborah Socolar means
A weak apology for the poetry spam
To Quote of the Day list members:
It should not have surprised me to receive the responses that objected to the poetry expressing opposition to the
D. Socolar on health care price disparities
Deborah Socolar, MPH, Co-Director, Health Reform Program, Boston University School of Public Health, comments on price disparities, using the example in the comments about the
Single payer bill introduced in California
California State Senate Bill Number: SB 921 February 21, 2003
SB 921, as introduced, Kuehl (Sen. Sheila Kuehl). Single payer health care coverage.
EASY AS PIE
Although this message seems to be a departure from the topic of health policy, what could be more unhealthy than war?
On March 5, 2003, about
Affordable premiums, unaffordable care
Washington Post
February 11, 2003
AARP Offers a Plan, but Experts Aren't Buying It
AARP, in partnership with UnitedHealth Group, has launched an insurance plan for people too
J. Kahn on affordability of premiums or of health care?
James G. Kahn, MD, MPH, a professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, responds to the comments