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A Guide for Student Chapters

…up to Don McCanne’s Quote of the Day (www.PNHP.org). Also, get email alerts via the Kaiser Family Foundation (www.KFF.org), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.RWJF.org and www.covertheuninsured.org), AMSA’s Health Policy…

Mandatory Health Insurance Is Urged

…coverage. In fact, Maine started enrolling people in the nation’s first universal healthcare program last summer. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-health20dec20,1,2569989.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters Following is a communication to the Letters Editor of the Los Angeles Times…

Misleading reports on ACO savings

…Pay-for-Performance Demonstration http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Demonstration-Projects/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/downloads/PGP_Fact_Sheet.pdf, July 2013: Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations succeed in improving care, lowering costs http://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Press-Releases/2013-Press-Releases-Items/2013-07-16.html, January 2014: Medicare’s delivery system reform initiatives achieve significant savings and quality improvements –…

Political momentum building for single payer reform

…I of her booklet expands on this: http://www.janetreilly.com/pdf/hcare_booklet.pdf Even the opponents understand the feasibility of single payer. Outspoken consumer-directed advocate Greg Scandlen had this to say about the flawed Massachusetts…

More about the crisis of lack of interoperability

A private health care information technology system

…bulk of it stimulated by consumer empowerment and the mechanisms of the free market. https://www.healthcare-informatics.com… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Yesterday’s message discussed the failure of our conservative government…

Should hospitals become the insurers?

…said, so the system needs to cross-subsidize the money-losing services that it nonetheless must continue to provide, with income from more profitable services, such as orthopedic surgery. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/03/27/Hospitals-Plot-End-Insurance-Companies **** Comment:…

Rudy Giuliani's health care proposal

Rudy Giuliani Campaign Announces Health Care Advisors

RUDY www.JoinRudy2008.com July 30, 2007 The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee today announced key advisors who have been providing input on Rudy Giuliani’s commitment to providing affordable free-market-based solutions to health…