San Francisco Chronicle
January 2, 2003
The Universal Approach
Affordability is basic in health-care reform
By Jerry Flanagan and Frank Smith
California needs a system-wide plan to resolve growing inequities
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.
Reinhardt on the AMA proposal to balance bill Medicare patients
Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economic and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, responds on the AMA
AMA supports Medicare cash infusion – from patients!
American Medical Association House of Delegates
Resolution: 713
Subject: Measures for the Return of Physician Financial Freedom
Whereas, The past fifteen years have seen the introduction of
T. Marmor on Medicare balance billing
Theodore R. Marmor, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy & Management and Professor of Political Science, Yale University School of Management, and author, "The Politics of
Single payer that isn’t single payer
USA Today
12/30/02
Health care is in 'dire need' of remedies
By Susan Page
Gore, who announced this month that he won't run for president in 2004, still plans
Single payer that isn't single payer
USA Today
12/30/02
Health care is in 'dire need' of remedies
By Susan Page
Gore, who announced this month that he won't run for president in 2004, still plans
E. Christiansen on health care in mainland China
Elinor Christiansen, M.D., President of the American Medical Women's Association, responds to Professor Uwe Reinhardt's comments on the health
care system in mainland China:
I believe Uwe
The future of employer coverage
Alliance for Health Reform
12/16/02
Employer Coverage: Mounting Challenges, New Approaches
An Update on Employer-Based Health Insurance
Jon R. Gabel, Vice President, Health Research and Educational Trust
Final slide of
Theodore Marmor comments on Malaysia and Canada
Don, We have a lot to learn from Malaysian doctors. I hope this gets into a letter to the editor of The NY Times or
Erosion of the social contract
Health Affairs
November/December 2002
How And Why The Health Insurance System Will Collapse
By Humphrey Taylor, Chairman of the Harris Poll
Abstract
Sen. Bill Frist and Medicare
Comment on Sen. Bill Frist and Medicare:
In the recent election, Sen. Frist counseled the Republican candidates to support prescription coverage for senior citizens but without
40% of Large Firms Will Offer Consumer-Driven Plans in 2004
American Medical News
Dec. 23/30, 2002
More big firms want Web-based health plans
By Tyler Chin
Based on a survey of 25 large companies with more than 1,000 employees