By David E. Drake, D.O.The Des Moines Register, March 10, 2015Potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has stated: "There is one major country on
A Visit with our Neighbor to the North
By Richard Dillihunt, M.D.Maine Medicine, July 2014For decades, I have admired the Canadian health care system, first while at a remote Northern Quebec fishing camp.
Expanding Medicare for all would be wise
By Johnathon Ross, M.D.The Blade (Toledo, Ohio), Letters, March 8, 2015The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing another case attacking Obamacare (“Bad case against Obamacare,” editorial,
Hawaii Health Authority could reduce health costs, if empowered to do so
By Stephen B. Kemble, M.D.Honolulu Star-Advertiser, March 8, 2015In 2009, the Hawaii Legislature passed a bill to create the Hawaii Health Authority, charged with designing
Health care law did not end discrimination against those with pre-existing conditions
By Kay Tillow Firedoglake, MyFDL, March 6, 2015 In 2010 the giant health insurance company WellPoint created an algorithm that searched its database, located breast cancer
Medical Students Step into Advocacy Roles
By Kim KrisbergAAMC Reporter, February 2015By Kim Krisberg | AAMC Reporter
In early December, hundreds of medical students at schools nationwide donned their white coats and
The Obamacare Challenge We Need? Improved, Expanded Medicare for All
How is it possible that in 2015 one of the richest countries in the world still does not guarantee every resident the right to health
In New York, Single-Payer Hopeful Isn’t Giving Up
Vermont may have abandoned the country’s only effort to enact single-payer health care, but one state legislator thinks the Affordable Care Act’s flaws will boost
What are the barriers to real health reform?
By Marcia Angell, M.D.PNHP note: The following text contains the prepared remarks of Dr. Angell at a panel titled “Persistent Barriers to Reform of the
Health care shouldn’t be determined by the insurers
By Deborah Schumann, M.D.The Washington Post, Letters, Feb. 20, 2015The Feb. 17 front-page article “Faces of the subsidies case” was right when it said that
Cuba’s health system: an eyewitness report
By Josh Freeman, M.D.By Josh Freeman, M.D.
I just returned from a week’s visit to Cuba with a group of journal medical editors and public health
Increasing Mainers’ Access to Healthcare
By Julie Pease, M.D.Maine Medicine, Jan.-Feb.-March 2015MMA’s Public Health Committee has designated access to healthcare as one of its priorities for 2015. During 2014, access