By Jack BernardThe Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), Aug. 20, 2013As stated in various newspaper articles, there is a national concern with hospital billings. Specifically, charges vary
Canadians should beware of Americans bearing ‘activity-based funding’
By Jonathon Ross, M.D.Canadian Healthcare Network, Aug. 1, 2013Many American physicians, myself included, support single-payer national health insurance, with global budgets for hospital care. A
Where’s the outrage over our failed health care system?
By Philip Caper, M.D. Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Aug. 15, 2013 For the next few months we’ll be bombarded by messages from the Obama administration urging
The “Cadillac” health plan is a myth
A doctor explains that limiting the scope of employer-based health care has long been a dream of the establishment By Adam Gaffney Salon, August 16,
Cost sharing in Massachusetts is growing fast
By John McDonoughBoston Globe, August 14, 2013By John McDonough | Boston Globe
Fine story in today's Globe by Liz Kowalczyk on the new state health data
Expansion of Medicare is best health care solution
By Lynn Moses YellottThe Journal (Martinsburg, W.Va.), Aug. 14, 2013By Lynn Moses Yellott | The Journal (Martinsburg, W.Va.)
My husband, family physician Dr. Chess Yellott, and
Obamacare's pregnant politics
By Dan CarpenterIndianapolis Star, Aug. 13, 2013Republicans and their media allies may be feeling heightened urgency as they saddle up Obama-Scare for 2014, according to
America needs cost-effective universal health care
By Julie Pease, M.D.Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine), Aug. 4, 2013In recent months, the people of Maine have witnessed activity by many different players in the
Insufficient outrage: is health care about helping people or enriching providers?
By Joshua Freeman, M.D.Medicine and Social Justice blog, Aug. 11, 2013By Joshua Freeman, M.D. | Medicine and Social Justice blog
The New York Times has been
The Long and Unfinished Struggle: Single Payer Health Care in Vermont
By Ethan ParkeSolutions, May-June 2013In 1998, Dr. Deb Richter began, almost single handedly, to revive the dream of universal health care in the United States
Get bosses out of insurance business
Let business tend to business, not health insuranceBy Dr. Judith DasovichSpringfield (MO) News-Leader, Aug. 3, 2013Employee-sponsored health insurance, or ESI, should be replaced with an
Your doctor copays are too high!
We’ve chosen a cost-sharing system of high-deductible health care. Here’s why it’s grossly unfair to Americans By Adam Gaffney Salon, August 5, 2013 Until recently,