An old, dishonorable practice needs to be seen in a new light, namely making people without health insurance pay far more than others for needed
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.
HealthCare access Resolution – House Concurrent Resolution 99
America's Health Together (www.healthtogether.org)
April 30, 2002
Washington, DC
Rima Cohen,Vice President at the Greater New York Hospital Foundation and Director of the Insurance Options for the Uninsured
Doctors, Ideals and Bottom Lines
The New York Times
May 3, 2002
As a private psychiatrist with about 45 percent of my patients on Medicaid or Medicare, I agree with Marc Siegel
PRI's "Marketplace"
May 2, 2002
Academics, analysts, lawmakers and the public: from all sides there are complaints that the country's health care system isn't working. More than 40
PRI’s “Marketplace”
May 2, 2002
Academics, analysts, lawmakers and the public: from all sides there are complaints that the country's health care system isn't working. More than 40
Aetna Ends a Drought in Health Care Profit
The New York Times
April 26, 2002
By Milt Freudenheim
Aetna reported a turnaround in its troubled health insurance business yesterday, reflecting sharply higher premiums and the loss
Jack Lewin, M.D., EVP and CEO of the California Medical Association, responds on the quote of AMA President Richard Corlin
On the need a pragmatic solution for the uninsured: "irreducible minimum, probably about 15 million":
Don and other Folks---Corlin has been misunderstood here. I talked with
Now that Harry and Louise are no longer under contract with the Health Insurance Association of America, just imagine the possibilities…
"Harry, did you see this article on the California study on single payer?"
"Is that like that terrible Clinton plan?"
"No, honey. This one's really different. This
Donald W. Light, Ph.D., responds on the increased funding for the British National Health Service:
The NHS reforms under Tony Blair go much farther than to make up for years of underfunding, which previous Prime Ministers denied was the case.
Cedar Rapids Gazette
April 19, 2002
By David DeWitte
American Medical Association President Dr. Richard Corlin drop-kicked the notion that national health insurance will ever solve the health insurance crisis
Billions for the NHS
BBC News
April 17, 2002
Spending on the NHS in England will top Ā£100 billion in five years time, Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced.
Mr. Brown has accepted
Health Care Costs C-SPAN Washington Journal
April 22, 2002
Steve Scully interviewing Dr. Henry Simmons, President, National Coalition on Health Care:
Steve Scully: An e-mail form Don McCanne, who is a medical