The Washington Post
January 30, 2002
By Laura Meckler, Associated Press
"President Bush will ask Congress for new tax credits to help people buy health insurance, an idea
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.
Experts debate options for health care reform
San Diego Daily Transcript
January 25, 2002
John Baldwin, M.D., Dean of Dartmouth Medical School:
"The great majority of American people, around 85 percent, if you ask them,
Families USA National Health Action 2002 Closing Plenary
January 18, 2002 Washington, DC
Marian Wright Edelman Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund
"And he (Martin Luther King) called then for a Poor People's
Bowling Together
The American Prospect
Volume 13, Issue 3.
February 11, 2002
by Robert D. Putnam
NewsHour Online Focus
January 21, 2002
Dr. David Satcher
RAY SUAREZ: Well, you grew up in the deep South during the years that Dr. King was trying to change the
Bipartisan Medicare Panel to Call for More Spending
The New York Times
January 21, 2002
by Robert Pear
"A federal advisory commission is recommending that the government increase Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals, home care agencies
Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Ph.D. responds to Thomas Scully's remarks that reform is not going to happen now:
(http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/BushAdmn.pdf)
"Mr. Scully is the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And when one reads his remarks on the above cited website, he
Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Ph.D. responds to Thomas Scully’s remarks that reform is not going to happen now:
(http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/BushAdmn.pdf)
"Mr. Scully is the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And when one reads his remarks on the above cited website, he
2002 National Health Policy Conference
Washington, DC
January 16, 2002
Thomas Scully, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:
"... with all the best intentions, we all want to do overnight
"All Those Health-Care Promises Remain Unfulfilled"
Newsday.com
January 17, 2002
by Marie Cocco
"The choice made in 1994 was to let it be, to reject a national solution and let every American find his
“All Those Health-Care Promises Remain Unfulfilled”
Newsday.com
January 17, 2002
by Marie Cocco
"The choice made in 1994 was to let it be, to reject a national solution and let every American find his
Understanding Health Policy – A Clinical Approach.
Third Edition, 2002 Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill By Thomas S. Bodenheimer, M.D. and Kevin Grumbach, M.D.