The Washington Times December 18, 2001 by Guy Taylor "Sparks flew yesterday at the D.C. Council's public oversight hearing on the D.C. Health Care
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.
Emergency Medicaid
The New York Times
December 17, 2001
Excerpt from the letter of David Jones, President, Community Service Society of New York:
"In New York, there have been more
Uninsured in Fits and Starts: How Stable Is Health Insurance Today, and What Difference Does It Make?
Alliance for Health Reform
December 12, 2001
Washington, DC
During Q & A:
Edward Howard, Executive Vice President, Alliance for Health Reform:
The next big health care crisis is now. HEALTH SCARE
The New Republic
December 24, 2001
by Jonathan Cohn
"As The New York Times reported last week, several major insurers, including Aetna, Humana, Cigna, and the UnitedHealth Group,
Medicare Reform, NEJM Letter to the Editor
The New England Journal of Medicine
December 13, 2001
Correspondence
To the Editor:
Why must the debate about Medicare reform be limited to the offering of two narrow choices?
Pay Up, Patient!
The New York Times
December 12, 2001
To the Editor:
"A New Health Plan May Raise Expenses for Sickest Workers" (front page, Dec. 5) points out the downside
It's all about the money, say frustrated health care consumers, providers and agencies
The Times-Standard Eureka, California
December 09, 2001
by Jennifer Morey
"When an insurance company executive has the audacity to admit to a state senator that his company doesn't
It’s all about the money, say frustrated health care consumers, providers and agencies
The Times-Standard Eureka, California
December 09, 2001
by Jennifer Morey
"When an insurance company executive has the audacity to admit to a state senator that his company doesn't
Request for Comments on Draft ACP-ASIM Seven Year Plan to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans
American College of Physicians American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM)
Available at the link below is "a draft seven-year sequential plan for expanding access to health
A Health Maze: Which Way Out?
The New York Times
December 9, 2001
Opinion
Excerpts from letters in response to the article, "A New Health Plan May Raise Expenses for Sickest Workers" (New York
Status of the Medicare Plus Choice Program
United States House of Representatives
Committee on Ways and Means
December 4, 2001
Representative Pete Stark (D-CA):
Consumer-directed coverage promoted by policy group
American Medical News
November 5, 2001
by Amy Snow Landa
Wye River Group on Healthcare, a "broad-based policy group that represents employers and other health care stakeholders is
