Office of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sept. 30, 2014One year after health insurance markets were opened to the public, Politico asked “some of the country's smartest
High medical bills pay middlemen
By Jonathan D. Walker, M.D.The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Sept. 28, 2014I was at a restaurant in Boston, sitting next to some high-powered business
Hospital Bureaucracy Costs Billions in Unhealthy Spending
By Laura KieselMainStreet, Sept. 22, 2014NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Hospitals in the U.S. spend exorbitant amounts on overhead compared to those of other countries, and
‘Climate change is a health crisis’
“Democracy Now,” Sept. 21, 2014Philip Swift“Democracy Now,” Sept. 21, 2014
The following is an unofficial transcript of an interview that Dr. Oliver Fein, chair of the
Why the single-payer resistance?
By Jack BernardThe Ledger-Inquirer (Columbus, Ga.), Sept. 19, 2014Ever since Medicare (universal health insurance for old people and the disabled) came out in 1965, congressional
The troubling way we pay hospitals in Maine and throughout the US
By Philip Caper, M.D. Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Sept. 18, 2014By Philip Caper, M.D. | Bangor (Maine) Daily News
A study published in the current issue
The Fight for Single-Payer Health Insurance, 2014
By Paul Song, M.D.Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare, Sept. 15, 2014The Labor Campaign for Single Payer held its largest ever strategy conference August 22-24
Health care overhead is costing us big bucks
By Jim LandersDallas Morning News, Sept. 16, 2014WASHINGTON — Americans spend more than $9,000 apiece on health care every year. Ouch, you say. But how
Rashi Fein, Economist Who Urged Medicare, Dies at 88
By Douglas MartinThe New York Times, Sept. 13, 2014Rashi Fein, an influential economist who strove to bring ethical and humanitarian perspectives to the nation’s health
$1.43 of every $100 in America goes toward hospital administration
By Sarah KliffVox, September 15, 2014America spends a lot of money on the paperwork that makes hospitals run— $218 billion per year, to be exact.
Restructure our economically unsustainable health care system
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Letters, Sept. 16, 2014If public policy decisions were driven by good business sense, the United States would long ago
Study: U.S. squanders $150B a year on hospital bureaucracy
By William Ulwelling, M.D.Albuquerque Journal, Sept. 15, 2014How affordable is the American health care system? And are matters getting better or worse? One factor is