Health Affairs
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January 8, 2003
Should Public Policy Seek To Control the Growth of Health Care Spending?
By Henry J. Aaron
Who makes the decisions?
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.
Supporting cost containment that didn't work?
CBSNews.com
Jan. 9, 2003
When Cure Is Worse Than Disease
By Dick Meyer, Editorial Director of CBSNews.com
The Republicans know exactly what they want to do to control the
Supporting cost containment that didn’t work?
CBSNews.com
Jan. 9, 2003
When Cure Is Worse Than Disease
By Dick Meyer, Editorial Director of CBSNews.com
The Republicans know exactly what they want to do to control the
Children Yes; Parents No
United States Department of Health & Human Services
News Release
Dec. 31, 2002
HHS Issues New Report Showing More American Children Received Health
Insurance in Early 2002
HHS Secretary Tommy
Health care spending $5035 per capita in 2001, 14.1 % of GDP
Health Affairs
January/February 2003
Trends In U.S. Health Care Spending, 2001
by Katharine Levit, Cynthia Smith, Cathy Cowan, Helen Lazenby, Art Sensenig,
and Aaron Catlin (from the Centers for
National health insurance or incremental reform?
he American Journal of Public Health
January 2003
National Health Insurance or Incremental Reform: Aim High, or at Our Feet?
By David U. Himmelstein, MD and Steffie Woolhandler,
California's Garamendi "going to drive health care"
The Mercury News
Jan. 4, 2003
Garamendi returning, faces industry challenges
By Deborah Lohse
John Garamendi, elected in November to the insurance commissioner job he held a decade ago,
California’s Garamendi “going to drive health care”
The Mercury News
Jan. 4, 2003
Garamendi returning, faces industry challenges
By Deborah Lohse
John Garamendi, elected in November to the insurance commissioner job he held a decade ago,
Marcia Angell's prediction for 2003
The Washington Post
January 5, 2003
Outlook
They Can See It Coming
We decided to ask forward-looking writers and thinkers: What can't we see that's coming?
Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief
Marcia Angell’s prediction for 2003
The Washington Post
January 5, 2003
Outlook
They Can See It Coming
We decided to ask forward-looking writers and thinkers: What can't we see that's coming?
Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief
A Rational Health System
Los Angeles Times
January 4, 2003
A Rational Health System
Re "Rx for Universal Care," editorial, Dec. 29: Although every caring person agrees that the debate on universal
Reinhardt and Marmor agree on Medicare reimbursement
Uwe Reinhardt's response to Theodore Marmor on physician reimbursement under Medicare:
Actually, I agree with Ted on the second-best solution. It would not be difficult to
