The ideal system you describe is the Canadian model. Overall capacity
there is fixed by budget and health planning, and physicians do the best
within that system
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.
Aetna’s Unmet Claims
The Washington Post
February 25, 2001
by Bill Brubaker
"Shortly after becoming chairman of Aetna Inc. last year, William H. Donaldson stood before a hostile audience of physicians
Aetna's Unmet Claims
The Washington Post
February 25, 2001
by Bill Brubaker
"Shortly after becoming chairman of Aetna Inc. last year, William H. Donaldson stood before a hostile audience of physicians
Talking About HMOs
The Wall Street Journal
February 21, 2001
by Scott Hensley
Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton
University:
"In the next recession, I think employers will make
Medicaid Spending Growth Headed Upward in Coming Years
Kaiser Family Foundation Release -February 9, 2001
John Holahan, co-author of the Urban Institute study:
"Medicaid spending could grow by up to 10 percent in the near
