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America’s New Single-Payer Majority
By Rep. John Conyers The Huffington Post, Feb. 5, 2015 The Republican-led House of Representatives just unsuccessfully attempted to undo the Affordable Care Act for
Universal Healthcare Advocates Renew Push Toward Medicare-For-All
U.S. Rep. John Conyers says: 'I believe that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is the only way we can truly reshape our broken system'By Deirdre
Physician calls for single-payer health care system in NH
By Garry RaynoThe Union Leader (Manchester, N.H.), Feb. 3, 2015CONCORD, N.H. ā āWho do you want to pay?ā was the question a Dover physician asked
The financial sinkhole of health insurance complexity
By Jim Kahn, M.D., M.P.H.KevinMD blog, Feb. 2, 2015We all know that the U.S. system of paying for health care is tremendously complex and inefficient:
What It’s Like When You’re An American Using Britain’s NHS
By Jim EdwardsBusiness Insider, Jan. 29, 2015I've spent half my life in the US and half of it in the UK, so I'm used to
Dr. Rob Stone on Indiana’s substitute Medicaid expansion
By Alycin BekteshWFHB 91.3 Radio (Bloomington, Ind.), Jan. 28, 2015By Alycin Bektesh | WFHB 91.3 Radio (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Don’t Trade Away Our Health
By Joseph E. StiglitzThe New York Times, Jan. 30, 2015A secretive group met behind closed doors in New York this week. What they decided may
A night at the free clinic shows limits of health-care reform
By Marina BolotnikovaThe Toledo Blade, February 1, 2015TOLEDO, Ohio -- Every Thursday night, CedarCreek Church in South Toledo becomes a bustling health clinic that serves
Martin Luther King Jr. — Health Care as a Moral Crisis
By John Geyman, M.D.The Huffington Post, Jan. 30, 2015On this occasion honoring the anniversary of the birthday of Martin Luther King 86-years-ago, coinciding with the
MLK’s Vision and the Right to Healthcare
By James Besante, MS4Common Dreams, Jan. 25, 2015This past week the world celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Marches of remembrance also served
Child health care and the class divide
By W.T. Whitney Jr., M.D.CounterPunch, Jan. 29, 2015By W.T. Whitney Jr., M.D. | CounterPunch
The U.S. split between a wealthy elite and the majority poor is