PNHP Bibliography

PNHP’s Proposals for Health Care Reform

Himmelstein DU, Woolhandler S, and the Writing Committee of the Working Group on Program Design. “A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians’ Proposal 1989”. New England Journal of Medicine. January 12, 1989. 320:102-8.

Schiff G, Bindman A, et. al. “A Better-Quality Alternative: Single-Payer National Health System Reform”. Journal of the American Medical Association. September 14, 1994. 272:803-808.

Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T, Himmelstein D, Woolhandler S. “Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending: The Physicians for a National Health Program Proposal”. Journal of the American Medical Association. May 15, 1991. 265: 2549-2554.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “The Deteriorating Administrative Efficiency of the U.S. Health Care System”. New England Journal of Medicine. May 2, 1991. 324:1253-8.

Harrington C, Cassel C, et. al. “A National Long-Term Care Program for the United States: A Caring Vision”. Journal of the American Medical Association. December 4, 1991. 266:3023-29.

Young QD. “Health Care Reform: A New Public Health Movement.” American Journal of Public Health. July 1993. 945-6.

Single Payer National Health Insurance

Himmelstein, David U., MD, and Woolhandler, Steffie, MD, MPH. “National Health Insurance or Incremental Reform: Aim High, or at Our Feet?” American Journal of Public Health. January 2003. Volume 93. No. 1.

Ellen R. Shaffer. “Universal Coverage and Public Health: New State Studies,” American Journal of Public Health. January 2003. Volume 93. No. 1. p109-111.

Thomas Bodenheimer. “The Movement for Universal Health Insurance: Finding Common Ground.” American Journal of Public Health. January 2003. Volume 93. No. 1. p112-115.

McCanne, Don R. “Q: Would single payer health insurance be good for America?” March 27, 2000.

Lingappa V, Farey K, Roark J. “The California Health Security Act: Implications for Physicians.” San Francisco Medicine. June-July 1994.

McDermott J. “Evaluating Health System Reform: The Case for a Single-Payer Approach”. Journal of the American Medical Association. March 9, 1994. 271:24-26.

Bodenheimer T. “Single Payer - Fifty Players? Alternative Payers for Universal Health Insurance”. Health/PAC Bulletin. 1992. pp. 17-20.

Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K. “Funding Universal Health Insurance: Taxes, Premiums and the Lessons of Social Insurance.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Fall 1992.

Schiff G, Himmelstein DU. “Questions and Answers about Single Payer National Health Insurance”. Roundtable discussion, PNHP meeting, Windsor, Ontario. May 19, 1996.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “A National Health Program: Northern Light at the End of the Tunnel”. Journal of the American Medical Association. October 20, 1989. 262:2136-37.

Bak J, Weiner R. “Issues Affecting Psychologists as Health Care Service Providers in the National Health Insurance Debate.” Independent Practitioner in three parts. Winter 1992, Spring 1993, Summer 1993.

Grumbach K. “National Health Insurance in America - Can We Practice With It? Can We Continue to Practice Without It?” The Western Journal of Medicine. August 1989. 151:210-16.

Taylor H, Reinhardt U. “Does the System Fit?” Health Management Quarterly. Third Quarter 1991, 13:2-10.

Dickman R, Ford A, et. al. “An End to Patchwork Reform of Health Care”. New England Journal of Medicine. October 22, 1987. 317:1086-8.

Terris M, Cornely P, et. al. “The Case for a National Health Service”. American Journal of Public Health. December 1977. 67:1183-5.

The United States Health Service. “Questions and Answers on the Health Service Act”. Congressional Record 98th Congress, First Session. Tuesday June 7, 1983. Vol. 129, No. 79.

Danielson D, Mazer A. “The Massachusetts Referendum for a National Health Program”. Journal of Public Health Policy. Summer 1986. 7:162-73.

Navarro V. “The Arguments Against a National Health Program: Science or Ideology?” International Journal of Health Services. 18:179-89 (1988).

Uninsured and Underinsured

Schiff, Gordon. “An Unsuspecting American With No Medicare Coverage—Me!” Health Affairs. November/December 2002.

Ferrer, Robert L. “A Piece of My Mind: Within the System of No-System.” Journal of the American Medical Association, November 28, 2001. Vol. 286, No. 20. (Adobe Acrobat required to view)

Consumer Reports article on the uninsured, “Second-class medicine“

Clancy C, Massion C. “American Women’s Health Care: A Patchwork Quilt with Gaps.” Journal of the American Medical Association. October 14, 1992. 1918-20.

Bodenheimer T. “Underinsurance in America”. New England Journal of Medicine. July 23, 1992. 327:274-8.

Schiff R, Ansell D, et. al. “Transfers to a Public Hospital: A Prospective Study of 467 Patients”. New England Journal of Medicine. February 27, 1986. 314:552-7.

Lurie N, Ward N, et. al. “Termination of Medi-Cal Benefits: A follow-up study one year later”. New England Journal of Medicine. May 8, 1986. 314:1266-8.

“The Crisis in Health Insurance - A Two-Part Series”. Consumer Reports. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. August and September 1990.

Short, Farley P, et. al. “New Estimates of the Underinsured Younger Than 65 Years”. Journal of the American Medical Association. October 25, 1995. 274:1302-6.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “Reverse Targeting of Preventive Care due to Lack of Health Insurance”. Journal of the American Medical Association. May 20, 1988. 259:2872-4.

Quality Issues

Lee, Jason S., Ph.D. “Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Systems.” Academy Health.

Institute for Health Care Improvement. ” QUINTESSENTIAL QUALITY: IN MEMORIUM A Tribute to Avedis Donabedian.” EYE ON IMPROVEMENT Volume
VII, Number 22: November 15, 2000.

Hymowitz C, Pollock EJ. “Psychobattle: Cost-Cutting Firms Monitor Couch Time as Therapists Fret”. Wall Street Journal. Thursday July 13, 1995.

Frankel S. “Health Needs, Health-care Requirements, and the Myth of Infinite Demand”. The Lancet. June 29, 1991. 337:26-27.

Angell M, Kassirer J. “Quality and the Medical Marketplace - Following Elephants”. New England Journal of Medicine. September 19, 1996. Vol. 335.

Schiff G. “Nursing Cuts Threaten Quality”. Testimony before the Illinois Nurses Association Task Force on Work Redesign. March 13, 1995.

Wells K, Hays R, et. al. “Detection of Depressive Disorder for Patients Receiving Prepaid or Fee-for-Service Care: Results From the Medical Outcomes Study”. Journal of the American Medical Association. December 15, 1989. 262:3298-3302.

Corporate Health & Managed Care

Navarro V. “The Wrong Medicine.” The Nation. February 1, 1993. Schiff G. “For-Profit Managed Care: Unaddressed Issues”. PNHP Newsletter. July 1996. (Also appeared in the ACP Observer, November 1996, Vol. 10., p. 5).

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “Galloping Toward Oligopoly: Giant HMO A or Giant HMO B?” The Nation. September 19, 1994.

Morgan R, Virnig B, et. al. “The Medicare-HMO Revolving Door - The Healthy Go In and the Sick Go Out”. (Abstract). New England Journal of Medicine. July 17, 1997. Vol. 337, No. 3.

Light D. “Managed Care: False and Real Solutions”. The Lancet. October 29, 1994. Vol. 344.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “Extreme Risk - The New Corporate Proposition for Physicians”. New England Journal of Medicine. December 21, 1995. 333:1706-8.

Gallagher H. “Managed Care: The German Experiment”. Lecture at Jesuit University, Wheeling, PA 4/97. PNHP Newsletter. July 1997.

Hart JT. “Patients as Producers”. International Association of Health Policy, 9th Congress. June 1996.

Himmelstein DU, Woolhandler S. “The Corporate Compromise: A Marxist View of Health Maintenance Organizations and Prospective Payment”. Annals of Internal Medicine. September 15, 1988. 109:494-501.

Hsiao WC. “Marketization - The Illusory Magic Pill” Health Economics. 3:351-357(1994).

Hart JT, Dieppe P. “Caring Effects”. The Lancet. June 8, 1996. 347:1606-8.

Reinhardt U. “Hippocrates and the ‘Securitization’ of Patients”. Journal of the American Medical Association. June 18, 1997. Vol. 277, No. 23.

Hart JT. “Two Paths for Medical Practice”. The Lancet. September 26, 1992. 340:772-75.
“For Our Patients, Not for Profits: A Call to Action”. The Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care. Journal of the American Medical Association. December 3 1997. 278:1733-8.

Ware J, Brook R, et. al. “Comparison of health Outcomes at a Health Maintenance Organization with Those of Fee-For-Service Care”. The Lancet. May 3, 1986. pp. 1017-22.

Relman A. “The New Medical-Industrial Complex”. New England Journal of Medicine. October 23, 1980. 303:963-70.

Ehrenreich B, Ehrenreich J. “The Medical Industrial Complex”. Health/PAC Bulletin. November 1969. pp. 1-9.
Mayer T, Mayer GG. “HMOs: Origins and Development”. New England Journal of Medicine. February 28, 1985.
312:590-4.

Bodenheimer T. “What’s Wrong with Profits in Health Care?” PNHP Newsletter. July 1997. pp. 35-36.

Health Care Economics

Market Driven Health Care and Social Control (Word document) by John Spritzler

McCanne, Don R. “Competition in the Medicare Program.” Written testimony for the Committee on Finance, United States Senate Hearing on Competition in the Medicare Program. February 29, 2000

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “Costs of Care and Administration at For-Profit and Other Hospitals in the United States”. (Abstract). New England Journal of Medicine. March 13, 1997. 336:769-774.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “Administrative Costs in the U.S. Hospitals.” New England Journal of Medicine. August 5, 1993.

Rasell E. “Cost Sharing in Health Insurance - A Reexamination”. New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 332, No. 17.

Light DW. “US Health Care Reforms: Clichés, Cost, and Mrs. C.” The Lancet. March 27, 1993. 791-2.

Angell M. “How Much Will Health Care Reform Cost?” New England Journal of Medicine. June 17, 1993. 328:1778-9.

Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T. “Reins or Fences: A Physician’s View of Cost Containment”. Health Affairs. Winter 1990. pp. 121-126.

Evans RG. “Tension, Compression, and Shear: Directions, Stresses, and Outcomes of Health Care Cost Control”. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Spring 1990. 15:101-128.
Bodenheimer T. “Should We Abolish the Private Health Insurance Industry?” The International Journal of Health Services. October 1989. 20:199-220.

Barer M, Evans R, et. al. “It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Cost Implications of Health Care Reform”. Health Affairs. Fall 1994.

Evans RG. “Going for Gold: The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform”. (Abstract and Summary). Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. April 1997. Vol. 22, No. 2.

Reinhardt U. “Economics”. Journal of the American Medical Association. June 19, 1996. Vol. 275, No. 23.

Himmelstein DU, Lewontin J, et. al. “Who Administers? Who Cares? Medical Administrative and Clinical Employment in the United States and Canada”. American Journal of Public Health. 86:172-8(1996).

Saltman R. “Single-Source Financing Systems: A Solution for the United States?” Journal of the American Medical Association. August 12, 1992. 268:774-9.

Roemer M, Roemer J. “The Social Consequences of Free Trade in Health Care: A Public Health Response to Orthodox Economics”. International Journal of Health Services. 12:111-129(1982).

Brandon W. “Health-Related Tax Subsidies: Government Handouts for the Affluent”. New England Journal of Medicine. October 7, 1982. 307:947-50.

Navarro V. “Where is the Popular Mandate?” New England Journal of Medicine. December 9, 1982. Vol. 307, No. 24.

Clinton’s Policy

Navarro V. “Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform”. Journal of health Politics, Policy and Law. Vol. 20, No. 2. Summer 1995.

Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. “Universal Care? Not from Clinton”. The New York Times. Friday, March 11, 1994.

Himmelstein DU, Wolfe S, et. al. “Mangled Competition: Clinton’s Health Reform”. The American Prospect. Spring 1993.

“The Wrong Prescription”. The New Yorker Magazine. April 26, 1993. p. 4.

Schiff G. “Consumer Interest and Health Reform: The Logic of Withdrawal from Managed Competition”. The

Journal of Consumer Affairs. Winter 1994. Vol. 28, No. 2.

Waitzkin H. “The Strange Career of Managed Competition: From Military Failure to Medical Success?” American Journal of Public Health. March 1994. Vol. 84, No. 3.

International Health Care

Navarro V. “The West German Health Care System: A Critique”. PNHP Newsletter. July 1990. pp. 8-11.

Donelan K, et.al. “All Payer, Single Payer, Managed Care, No Payer: Patients’ Perspectives in Three Nations”. (Summary). Health Affairs. Summer 1996.

Saltman R. “Single-Source Financing Systems: A Solution for the United States?” Journal of the American Medical Association. August 12, 1992. 268:774-9.

Gorey K, Holowaty E, et. al. “An International Comparison of Cancer Survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, Metropolitan Areas”. (Abstract). American Journal of Public Health. July 1997. Vol. 87, No. 7.

Klein R. “Why Britain’s Conservatives Support a Socialist Health Care System”. Health Affairs. Spring 1985. pp. 41-57.

Blendon R, Leitman R. “Satisfaction with Health Systems in Ten Nations”. Health Affairs. Summer 1990. pp.185-192.

Anderson G. “In Search of Value: An International Comparison of Cost, Access, and Outcomes”. Health Affairs. November/December 1997. 16:163-71.

Canada

Marmor T. “Health Care Reform in the United States: Patterns of Fact and Fiction in the Use of Canadian Experience.” American Review of Canadian Studies. Spring 1993. 47-64.

Wedding D, Ritchie P, Kitchen A, Binner P. “Mental Health Services in a Single-Payer System: Lessons from Canada and Principles for an American Plan.” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. 1993. 387-93.

Bernard E. “The Politics of Canada’s Health Care System: Lessons for the U.S.” New Politics, Winter 1992. Enterline PE, Salter V, et. al. “The Distribution of Medical Services Before and After “Free” Medical Care - The Quebec Experience”. New England Journal of Medicine. November 29, 1973. 289:1174-78.

Siemiatycki J, Richardson L, et. al. “Equality in Medical Care under National Health Insurance in Montreal”. New England Journal of Medicine. July 3, 1980. 303:10-15.

Remakus BL. “On Propacanada”. Internal Medicine World Report. Vol. 8, No. 6 (1993).

Naylor CD. “A Different View of Queues in Ontario”. Health Affairs. Fall 1991. pp. 111-128.
“Canadian Health Insurance: Lessons for the United States”. General Accounting Office Report. June 1991. GAO/HRD-91-90.

Kane R. “Lessons in Long-Term Care: The Benefits of a Northern Exposure”. Health Economics. 1:105-114(1992).

Hayes G, Hayes S, et. al. “Physicians Who Have Practiced in Both the United States and Canada Compare the Systems”. American Journal of Public Health. November 1993. 83:1544-8.

Hornberger J, Garber A, et. al. “Mortality, Hospital Admissions, and Medical Costs of End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States and Manitoba, Canada”. (Abstract). -Medical Care. 35:686-700(1997).

Lee S. “Health Policy, A Social . Contract: A Comparison of the United States and Canada”. Journal of Public Health Policy. September 1982. pp. 293-301.

“The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comments”. The New Yorker Magazine. April 20, 1992. p. 29-30.

Canadian Report on the State of Health Care (2002) by Senator Kirby

“Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada” PDF Document, Romanow Report of the Future of Canadian medicare