"If we focused on universal access instead of single payer, we would have a much greater chance of dealing productively with these problems. If the
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.
Ellen Shaffer concludes this series:
Recent exchanges have raised important issues regarding how to assess, analyze and address the public's views on health care reform, as well as what might
Scarce Funds Imperil Bush Health Goals
Los Angeles Times
August 24, 2001
by Robert Rosenblatt
"Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson signaled Thursday that the Bush administration is backing away from its
Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Medicine comments
School of Medicine, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, comments:
As a political scientist and a teacher of health policy to medical students, I have
Theodore Marmor, Ph.D. responds to Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., and suggests the federalist option for health care reform:
I have looked over not only your comments to me, Uwe, but also the exchanges with others. Can we proceed this way? I
Dr. Reinhardt's US Chamber of Commerce paper:
Don:
I had referenced an angry paper I had once written for the US Chamber of Commerce. Unsure of whether I had sent it to
Dr. Reinhardt’s US Chamber of Commerce paper:
Don:
I had referenced an angry paper I had once written for the US Chamber of Commerce. Unsure of whether I had sent it to
Ellen Shaffer, PhD, a health policy analyst, advocate and researcher, responds to the comments of Uwe Reinhardt, PhD
Here is why Uwe Reinhardt's comments, and Norm Ornstein's, are cynical, unanalytical, demoralizing and wrong:
Whatever nods they may offer to the actual structural political obstacles
Patients' Rights: What's at Stake?
The New York Times
August 19, 2001
by Milt Freudenheim
Charles B. Inlander, president of People's Medical Society, a consumer advocacy group, responding to questions:
Q. Will patients'
Patients’ Rights: What’s at Stake?
The New York Times
August 19, 2001
by Milt Freudenheim
Charles B. Inlander, president of People's Medical Society, a consumer advocacy group, responding to questions:
Q. Will patients'
Theodore Marmor responds
Theodore R. Marmor, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Yale University School of Management, responds to Uwe Reinhardt:
Pastor of the Shady Grove Presbyterian Church in Memphis, and long active in health care reform
Tom Mainor, provides two responses (before and after Dr. Reinhardt's "bread and circus games" single payer commentary):
Aug. 14, 2001