Psychiatric Annals, April 19, 2013The economic recession and subsequent austerity measures in Greece were associated with a significant deterioration in public health services and mental
Deteriorating Public Health Policies? What Greece, U.S. May Have in Common
Becker's Hospital Review
By Bob HermanBecker's Hospital Review, April 18, 2013For the past several years, the United States has not been the only country to face a recession.
Greed, fear and other barriers to health care as a human right
By Philip Caper, M.D. Bangor Daily News, April 18, 2013 Of all the wealthy countries, only the United States has so far failed
Beyond Obamacare
How a single-payer system can save health care in the United StatesBy Dave Dvorak, M.D., M.P.H.Minnesota Medicine, April 2013As Minnesotaās physicians, health care leaders and
Medicare and medicine as a profession
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 12, 2013Today I'd like to share some thinking about Medicare and medicine as a profession.Medicare
Austerity and the Unraveling of European Universal Health Care
By Adam Gaffney, M.D.Dissent, Spring 2013A great human disaster is now unfolding in the many Eurozone countries that have agreed to slash spending, wages, and
The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies
Bloomberg Businessweek
By Jeffrey PfefferBloomberg Businessweek, April 10, 2013By Jeffrey Pfeffer | Bloomberg Businessweek
But the thing that few people talk about, and that no serious policy proposal
The great health care sinkhole
Concord Monitor (N.H.)
By Robert S. Kiefner, M.D.Concord Monitor (N.H.), April 3, 2013The bizarre and tragic loss of a Florida man a few weeks ago, slipping to his
'Bitter Pill' misses the target on solutions to the U.S. medical crisis
Brill glosses over the real solution to the cost of medical bills: a single-payer system which forces hospitals to be more efficientBy Jack BernardTime magazine,
An adventure to make life worth living
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
By Andrew Coates, M.D.WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 5, 2013Helen Keller famously wrote that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." She continued: "To
Advice for Stephen Colbert when interviewing President Clinton
Clayton-Richmond Heights Patch
By Arthur Yakov KrichevskyClayton-Richmond Heights Patch, April 5, 2013I hope Stephen Colbert asks President Bill Clinton about health care on Saturday.Colbert is a brilliantly satiric
Over 7,000 march to demand return of stolen UMWA health benefits
Firedoglake
16 arrested sitting in for minersBy Kay TillowFiredoglake, April 4, 2013CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- They boarded buses and cars before dawn, some the night before, coming
