The San Diego Union-Tribune
Oct. 30, 2001
"Threats expose health care problems"
By Jamie Court, Executive Director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Kay McVay, President
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.
This May Hurt
The Washington Post
October 30, 2001
"Some Doctors Are Spurning Managed Care, Giving More Time -- and a Bigger Bill -- to Their Patients" by Marc Borbely
"Dorothy
Embattled Columnist Christy Quits Hollywood Reporter
Reuters
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 -- "Veteran Hollywood Reporter columnist George Christy quit the showbiz trade paper today after probes into health benefits he received
Surgery Pharmaceutical Grant
In December, 2000, members of this list received a message from Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Columbia University's
Red Tape at Red Cross: Groups Now in a Tangle
An article referred to us by Dr. Reinhardt:
Don:
This article so clearly demonstrates the high social cost of pluralism relative to collective action. It is
Oregon Health Benefits May be Trimmed
The New York Times
October 27, 2001
"The state Health Services Commission has been working since July on a Legislature-mandated task of finding ways to expand the
Health Plans and Physician Organizations in California: Mutual Dependence or Mutually Assured Destruction?
California HealthCare Foundation
October 2001
By James C. Robinson, Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
"Implications for the California Experiment"
Hearing on the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP)
United States House of Representatives
Government Reform Committee
Civil Service and Agency Organization Subcommittee
October 16, 2001
Representative Danny Davis: Mr. Moffit, I believe that you mentioned the
Critical Condition
San Francisco Chronicle
October 23, 2001
by Victoria Colliver
"With the recent surge in layoffs, many of the unemployed find themselves having to choose between paying for
Health Costs’ Harsh Reality
The Washington Post
October 21, 2001
by Bill Brubaker
"A survey of 200 large employers released last week found that workers will pay an average of 14
Health Costs' Harsh Reality
The Washington Post
October 21, 2001
by Bill Brubaker
"A survey of 200 large employers released last week found that workers will pay an average of 14
Ken Frisof, of UHCAN (Universal Health Care Action Network):
Dear Don,
A number of your readers and our activists asked me to give this brief description of our current work at this time in the
