By Pat BradleyWAMC Northeast Public Radio, Dec. 23, 2014Last week Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin told Vermonters he would stop his efforts to implement single-payer health
What is Single Payer and Why Should Emergency Physicians Care?
By Dave Dvorak, M.D., M.P.H.Minnesota / ACEP Newsletter, Dec. 19, 2014As emergency physicians, we have chosen to work in a setting that treats all patients,
Health insurance companies are con artists
By James Binder, M.D.The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette, Dec. 20, 2014Private insurance companies have conned us once again. It wasn’t long ago that many folks were
Reform health care to serve patients, not corporate medicine
By Philip Caper, M.D. Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Dec. 18, 2014 When I was a kid, I liked to play a game called “connect the
Vermont bails on single-payer health care
By Sarah WheatonPolitico, December 17, 2014Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday dropped his plan to enact a single-payer health care system in his state —
N.Y. single-payer health care bill gets wide support
Council member Corey Johnson and Raging Grannies face off against insurance brokers at daylong hearingBy Irina IvanovaCrain's New York Business, Dec. 16, 2014The Affordable Care
Perspective: We lay down; now it’s time to stand up
By Hannah KepplerAMSA On Call blog, December 16, 2014Last Wednesday, thousands of students at more than 70 medical schools across the country staged “white-coat die-ins”
Why Canadian hospitals outperform US hospitals
If US hospitals ran as efficiently as Canada's the average family of four would save $2,000 annually on healthcareBy Steffie Woolhandler and David HimmelsteinTroy Media
Single-payer health insurance advocated for N.Y. State
By Henry DavisBuffalo News, Dec. 11, 2014One patient went overseas for an operation to avoid paying high out-of-pocket costs here.A single mother in a low-paying
#WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Health Care Workers Stage Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality
By Lilly Workneh The Huffington Post, December 10, 2014 Medical students from more than 70 schools on Wednesday protested racial profiling and police brutality through
Med student: Why you should protest the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown
By Christy DuanKevinMD.com, December 9, 2014In the pediatrics playroom, the medical team and I, a medical student, hunkered down in child-sized chairs to review patient
Out-of-pocket costs put care out of reach
By Anne Scheetz, M.D.Chicago Tribune, Letters, Dec. 6, 2014By Anne Scheetz, M.D. | Chicago Tribune
Some of the newly insured have joined the ranks of those