NPR
June 5, 2002
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.
NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Poll on Health Care Americans Face Problems, But Don’t Want Radical Change
NPR
June 5, 2002
Rob Stone, M.D., an ER physician from Indiana, responds to Pete du Pont's rhetoric on single payer reform
My reply to DuPont is: What about Medicare? Is he willing to criticize Medicare (and commit political suicide) since it is a government program.
Rob Stone, M.D., an ER physician from Indiana, responds to Pete du Pont’s rhetoric on single payer reform
My reply to DuPont is: What about Medicare? Is he willing to criticize Medicare (and commit political suicide) since it is a government program.
The Unraveling of Health Insurance
Consumer Reports
July, 2002
A Question of Access
Medical Economics
May 24, 2002
Memo from the Editor
By Marianne Dekker Mattera
At its Annual Session in Philadelphia last month, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal
Canadian Medical Association Journal
May 28, 2002
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals
By P.J. Devereaux, et al
Interpretation: Our meta-analysis
Health-Care Funding for All of Us
Los Angeles Times
May 28, 2002
Letters to the Editor
Re "County Health System Faces Dire Options," May 23:
Most Americans remain reluctant to support tax increases to assure
Confronting Health Care ‘Demons’ Anthony Welters Took an Unlikely Route to Head AmeriChoice, an HMO for the Poor
The Washington Post
May 27, 2002
By Bill Brubaker
Anthony Welters grew up in a one-room tenement in Harlem, sleeping behind a curtain with his three brothers, he
Confronting Health Care 'Demons' Anthony Welters Took an Unlikely Route to Head AmeriChoice, an HMO for the Poor
The Washington Post
May 27, 2002
By Bill Brubaker
Anthony Welters grew up in a one-room tenement in Harlem, sleeping behind a curtain with his three brothers, he
National Health Insurance Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending
Archives of Internal Medicine
May, 2002
by Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David U. Himmelstein, MD
Single-Payer Health Care By Any Other Name Is Still A Monopoly
National Center for Policy Analysis
April 2, 2002
Opinion Editorial
by The Honorable Pete du Pont, Policy Chairman of NCPA
"Under our current system, if a health insurance company
