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
Greed, fear and other roadblocks to health care reform
By Philip Caper, M.D. Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Feb. 19, 2015 We often hear boasts about American exceptionalism. But there is at least one area
Let’s wise up on the costs of health care
By Rod WatsonThe Buffalo News, Feb. 18, 2015The spat between doctors and a health insurer over which anti-addiction drug patients can get raises again the
Brill’s ‘Bitter Pill’: Accurate Diagnosis, Inadequate Treatment
By John Geyman, M.D.The Huffington Post, Feb. 17, 2015By John Geyman, M.D. | The Huffington Post
Steven Brill, author of the well-known 2013 "Special Report, Why
Jackson, Tenn., Labor Council supports H.R. 676
Single Payer News, Feb. 15, 2015On January 5, 2015, the Jackson Central Labor Council meeting in regular session "voted unanimously to endorse and support H.R.
The Health Law, in the Real World
By Nancy T. Block, M.D.The New York Times, Letters, Feb. 16, 2015As Elisabeth Rosenthal eloquently documents in “Insured, but Not Covered” (news analysis, Sunday Review,
Accountable care faces major obstacles in private plans
By Stephen Kemble, M.D.Modern Healthcare, Letters, Feb. 16, 2015By Stephen Kemble, M.D. | Modern Healthcare
Moving the ACO model to the privately insured means holding doctors
Why Canadian Hospitals Outperform U.S. Hospitals
By Steffie Woolhandler and David HimmelsteinThe Huffington Post Canada, Feb. 12, 2015In many countries, bereaved families get condolence cards and flowers. In the U.S., they