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
U.S health care is ill
Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.), Letters
Selling private health insurance will not strengthen democracy
Portside news service
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
Health care for all
Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Letters
By Garrett Adams, M.D.Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Letters, March 21, 2013Humana’s sponsorship of Actors Theatre’s Festival of New Plays is unsettling to me. Why? Health insurance
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt
Truthout
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin ZeeseTruthout, March 20, 2013 This week the Strike Debt Rolling Jubilee, a project that arose from Occupy Wall
The Cost Curve Is Bending, but Not for All of Us
By Don McCanne, M.D. “If the piece has a hero, it’s an unlikely one: Medicare, the government program that by law can pay hospitals
Brill’s big breakthrough
A Time manifesto on healthcare costs smashes fences that have constricted this conversation for far too longBy Trudy LiebermanColumbia Journalism Review, The Second Opinion blog,
Care crisis: Medicare for all
The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette
By the Editorial BoardThe Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette, March 17, 2013CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Health care should be a human right for all people. Medical insurance should
Rhode Island's is 41st state AFL-CIO to endorse H.R. 676
By Single Payer NewsOn Feb. 25 the Executive Board of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed H.R. 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, the
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler: Time to end medical debt, medical bankruptcy
The following is an unofficial, slightly edited set of excerpts from a March 4 telephone interview with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor at the City University
Selling Expensive Health Care Lemons
Bangor Daily News
By Philip Caper, M.D.Bangor Daily News, March 14, 2013In 1970, a University of California economist named George Akerlof wrote a paper titled
Experts debate all-payer setups vs. Medicare for all
Politico
By Brett NormanPolitico, March 14, 2013Health care prices are too damn high.That’s the punch line to the provocative Time magazine piece “Bitter Pill” by Steven
PNHP members react to Time's ‘Bitter Pill’
PNHP note: In addition to longer commentaries by Dr. James Kahn and Dr.PNHP note: In addition to longer commentaries by Dr. James Kahn
