Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2002
By Ralph Frammolino
The memories will endure, but the factory that turns out 46 billion Life Savers each year won't. Kraft Foods
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.
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Rev. Tom Mainor on single payer reform, with an additional comment by Don McCanne:
Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University:
Dear Rev. Mainor:
Bad Medicine
The New York Times
March 19, 2002
By Paul Krugman
Sunday's front-page story in The Times on doctors who shun patients with Medicare may have been alarming enough;
Rev. Tom Mainor Comments on the debate and priorities:
The American public, the Congress and the News Media do not have before them accessible, sense-making comparative costs, figures. Nor do they see/hear/receive/have explained in
Theodore Marmor responds to Uwe Reinhardt:
(The previous remarks are reproduced, and Dr. Marmor's additional comments are in caps, whereas his original comments are in lower case. Dr. Reinhardt's comments were
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Kip Sullivan's last comments:
Kip:
I think we can put this baby to bed as follows:
1. It is agreed that, relative to keeping the elderly in the traditional Medicare (enhanced
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Kip Sullivan’s last comments:
Kip:
I think we can put this baby to bed as follows:
1. It is agreed that, relative to keeping the elderly in the traditional Medicare (enhanced
HMOs embrace tiered benefits
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 10, 2002
By Tony Fong
A handful of HMOs in California have begun offering plans that steer patients into selected hospitals where no
Remarks by Mrs. Laura Bush U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
March 8, 2002
"Human dignity, private property, free speech, equal justice, education, and health care - these rights must be guaranteed throughout the world."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/firstlady/news-speeches/speeches/fl20020308.html
Yesterday, Dr. Reinhardt
Medicare Report
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in new projections released today in Health Affairs, estimates that health spending will more than double to $2.8
Health costs could become leading cause of bankruptcy
North County Times
3/10/02
By Bruce Kauffman
OCEANSIDE ---- An advocate for reform of the nation's health care system said Saturday that medical bills will become the number
In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual And Reproductive Health Needs of American Men
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
March, 2002
"From adolescence on, most men need information and counseling about sexual and reproductive matters, and they need somewhere reliable to go