Health Affairs (web exclusive)
September 26, 2001
by Bradley C. Strunk, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Jon R. Gabel
Abstract:
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.
The Sociological Character of Health Care Markets
by Donald W. Light
From "Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine" Gary L. Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, Susan C. Scrimshaw, eds.
Donald W. Light, Ph.D., Professor
The Boston Globe September
The Boston Globe
September 25, 2001
"Kennedy to Launch Drug Program" by Rick Klein
"Former US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II today will launch a private drug-discount program
American Medical News October
American Medical News
October 1, 2001
Ethics Forum
Facing patients who don't pay
Scenario: A patient recently forwarded the following notice he had received from his physician to the
News Release Congressman Pete
News Release
Congressman Pete Stark
September 21, 2001
Rep. Pete Stark Statement on Medicare HMOs' Abandonment of America's Senior Citizens and Persons with Disabilities"
Congressman Pete Stark:
The Washington Post September
The Washington Post
September 22, 2001
"Federal Insurance to Rise 13.3%" by Stephen Barr
"Health insurance premiums for federal employees and retirees will rise an average 13.3 percent
American Enterprise Institute Health
American Enterprise Institute
Health Policy Discussion
"Is Inequality Bad for Our Health?"
An event scheduled for October 11, 2001
From the invitation for this event:
"A popular topic in public
The Government, Once Scorned, Becomes Savior
Los Angeles Times
September 19, 2001
by Ronald Brownstein
At the moment the first fireball seared the crystalline Manhattan sky last week, the entire impulse to distrust government
Coverage of Tobacco Dependence Treatments for Pregnant Smokers in Health Maintenance Organizations
American Journal of Public Health
September, 2001
by Kate E. Pickett, PhD, et al
"Approximately 13% of pregnant women in the United States smoke, with serious health consequences
Insufficient Credits
The American Prospect
September 10, 2001
by Marcia Angell, M.D.
Marcia Angell, M.D., senior lecturer in social medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the former editor-in-chief of
Making Tax Credits Work: How Much Do Individuals Pay for Their Private Health Insurance and What Do They Get For Their Money?
Alliance for Health Reform Briefing
August 10, 2001
Washington, DC
Gary Lauer, President and CEO of eHealthInsurance, an on-line broker for health insurance:
"We are the largest source of
PRIVATE-PUBLIC SECTOR MIX IN THE ECONOMY
A message from Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University:
Don:
I have just posted this message on the course website of my
