A little-known loophole in President Obama's landmark legislation enables health insurers to extend existing policies for nearly all of 2014.By Chad TerhuneLos Angeles Times, April
Farewell to the NHS, 1948-2013
A dear and trusted friend finally murdered by Tory ideologuesThis week's 'reforms' of a treasured institution - by people who came to power promising not
Registered Nurses to the Rescue
By Andrew Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, March 29, 2013In a small news article this week in the New York Times, Nina Bernstein reported that
The future of the NHS ā irreversible privatisation?
Observations, Health and Social Care ActBMJ, March 20, 2013This is the edited transcript of a video interview carried out on 3 March 2013 by Jill
Digital archive of Health/PAC Bulletin now available
By the Health/PAC Archives WorkgroupPress release, March 25, 2013Before there was an Internet, with blogs, listservs and web pages to turn to, there was the
Poor Americans in South Less Likely to Get Medical Care: Study
Researchers found states in that region imposed strictest eligibility requirements for MedicaidBy Steven Reinberg, HealthDay NewsU.S. World and News Report, March 27, 2013Poor people in
Strike Debt Kicks Off Second Debt Buy-Up With March for Universal Health Care
By John KnefelTruthout, March 26, 2013By John Knefel | Truthout
A coalition of groups associated with Occupy Wall Street took to the streets of midtown Manhattan
Single-payer health care is the only viable solution
By William Davidson, M.D.The Patriot-News (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), March 24, 2013A recent Sunday Opinion section of the Patriot-News presented two differing views of the Affordable Care
Single-payer health care is still right way to go
By Dave ZweifelThe Capital Times (Madison, Wis.), March 23, 2013For the 11th straight year, Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers has introduced what he calls the
That's what you get when you kick the can down the road
By Andrew Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, March 22, 2013"Kicking the can down the road" is an idiom that means to defer something crucial in
U.S health care is ill
By W. Dillaway, M.D.Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.), Letters, March 22, 2013I do not envy Kathleen Sebelius, our secretary of Health and Human Services. Her job compels
Selling private health insurance will not strengthen democracy
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D.Portside news service, March 22, 2013Nelson Lichtenstein ("Obamacare's other benefit," L.A. Times, March 19) is correct to hint at the potential