The National Academies
Institute of Medicine
Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System Demonstrations
State Health Insurance: Making Affordable Coverage Available to All
Americans
Demonstration projects in 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.
Gore Supports Single-Payer
ABC News
November 14, 2002
Gore Supports Single-Payer
On a stage in a synagogue on New York's Upper West Side Wednesday night,
Gore made this stunning announcement to several
Healthcare administration costs are greater than defense budget
Newsday
October 24, 2002
Bush Signs $355B Defense Bill
President George W. Bush signed into law yesterday the biggest military pending increase since Ronald Reagan's administration - a
Paul Wellstone
United States Senate
July 19, 2000
Senator Paul Wellstone:
When I was first elected to the Senate and Bill Clinton was elected
president two years later, I believed the
Medicaid reductions balance budgets
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Medicaid Spending Growth: Results from a 2002 Survey
September 2002
Prepared by Vernon Smith, Ph.D., Eileen Ellis, Kathy Gifford, Rekha Ramesh,
and
Family practice as an agent for reform
The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
September-October 2002
Family Practice in a Failing Health Care System: New Opportunities To
Advocate for System Reform
By John P.
Drug co-payments benefit plans, not patients
JAMA
October 9, 2002
Employer Drug Benefit Plans and Spending on Prescription Drugs
By Geoffrey F. Joyce, PhD; JosƩ J. Escarce, MD, PhD; Matthew D. Solomon, MA;
Dana P.
Where is the health care reform debate?
The Washington Times
September 30, 2002
Better to act than act shocked
By Greg Scandlen
President Bush has proposed legislation addressing all three ideas - tax
credits, MSA expansion and
Death spiral of comprehensive coverage
Los Angeles Times
September 29, 2002
Rising Costs Put Pressure on Kaiser
By Don Lee
Kaiser Permanente is having one of its brightest financial years ever, but
beneath the rosy
The uninsured are back on the national agenda
Los Angeles Times
September 30, 2002
Fewer Have Coverage for Health Care
By Vicki Kemper
Altogether, the number of Americans who had no health coverage for any part
of the
Canadian youth understand
Romanow Commission
Hearing of May 28, 2002
Ottawa
From a summary of the testimony of Kyla Weinman and Laura Wilson, Grade 8
students at Glashan Middle School:
At the outset,
How many uninsured?
USA Today
September 26, 2002
Bridge temporary insurance gaps
By Steven Findlay
Monday, the Census Bureau will release its annual tally of health-insurance
coverage in the USA. Once again we