By A.W. Gaffney, M.D.Truthout, March 26, 2014There are many good reasons to impatiently anticipate the end of one's medical training, which not infrequently lasts upwards
With Hippocratic Oath, doctors pledge allegiance to patients, not profits
By Philip Caper, M.D.Bangor (Maine) Daily News, March 20, 2014The Maine Medical Association recently updated a 2008 poll of their members that asked the question,
What the U.S. really needs is a single-payer health system
By Samuel Metz, M.D.The Oregonian, March 17, 2014Imagine all your medical information imprinted on one wallet-sized card. Then you lose it. Is this an inconvenience,
Nine Questions About My New Medical Home
By Matthew Anderson, M.D.Health Affairs blog, March 17, 2014Sometime in the past five years — it’s hard for me to say exactly when — I
Universal coverage remains a big deal
By Philip Verhoef, MD, PhD and Stephen Kemble, MD KevinMD.com, March 16, 2014 Recently JAMA published a special theme issue on critical issues in U.S. health care.
Senate hearing: Learning from other nations’ health systems
This article includes videoHearing convened by Sen. Bernie SandersOn March 11, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont chaired a Senate subcommittee hearing on what the health care system in
Senate panel examines health systems in Canada, Taiwan, Denmark and France
This article includes videoBy Deborah Schumann, M.D.WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging of the Health, Education, Labor and
Doctor who schooled U.S. senator ‘thrilled’ by Canadian support
By Carmen ChaiGlobal News (Canada), March 13, 2014TORONTO – Dr. Danielle Martin knows Canadians are proud of the country’s universal health care. She is too.At
As ACA deadline looms, Maine doctors show support for single-payer health care
By Jackie Farwell Bangor (Maine) Daily News, March 12, 2014With March 31 fast approaching as the deadline to buy health insurance under the Affordable
Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare
By Michael Hiltzik The Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2014 A U.S. politician's I-don't-need-no-stinkin'-facts approach to health policy ran smack into some of those troublesome
Tickets written to ‘Truthful Tuesday’ protesters calling for Medicaid expansion
By Jamie SelfThe State (Columbia, S.C.), March 11, 2014COLUMBIA, S.C. — Protesters calling on lawmakers to expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act --
International experts tell senators that single-payer improves national health at less cost
By Mark Karlin Truthout/Buzzflash, March 11, 2014 Here are two basic facts to remember about the health care system in the United States. First, there is the