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
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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
Maine Medical Association survey shows 64 percent support single payer
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ACA won’t control health care costs
By Henry J. Waters IIIColumbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, March 8, 2014Recently a group of physicians sponsored a visit by a University of Massachusetts professor of
When Health Costs Harm Your Credit
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When Matt Meyer, who owns a saddle-fitting company in
Facing death – and hope
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Worse Than the Mob: The Insurance Industry Is Organized Crime
By William Rivers Pitt Truthout, March 6, 2014 We got accountants playin' God and countin' out the pills Yeah, I know, that sucks - that
Not far enough?
Health care for everyone isn’t a question of realism – it’s a moral necessityBy Gabriel Edwards and David MealieaThe New Physician, January-February 2014By Gabriel Edwards
Sizing up Obamacare, unions urging unified push for single-payer system
Cite increasing burden at bargaining tableBy David SimsThe Chief-Leader (New York), March 3, 2014The Affordable Care Act’s changes to the nation’s health-care business mean good