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The Commodification of Health Care and the Search for a Universal Health Program in the United States
By Howard Waitzkin, M.D.Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Human Capital Blog, Oct. 11, 2012For better or worse, we treat health care in the United States as
Study: Medicare Has Overpaid Private Insurers $283B Since 1985
By Bob HermanBecker's Hospital Review, Oct. 11, 2012Three physicians and health policy directors with Physicians for a National Health Program conducted a study on how
Report: Private Insurers Cost Medicare Billions In Excess Payments
By Rachel ZimmermanCommonHealth blog, WBUR (Boston NPR), Oct. 11, 2012The doctors over at Physicians for a National Health Program, advocates of a single-payer system, sure
Conversations with … Quentin Young, MD
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Health reform and professional ethics
By Stephen B. Kemble, M.D.PNHP note: The following is the inaugural address that Dr. Kemble, president of the Hawaii Medical Association and single-payer advocate, delivered
Deaths from Uninsurance
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A recently released Census Bureau
Spiritual side of health care
By Ahmed Kutty, M.D.Kearney (Neb.) Hub, Letters, Aug. 24, 2012On Aug. 15 at the dedication of the new west wing and the Cope Heart Center
ACOs are another distraction from universal single-payer health care
By Peggy Anna Carey, M.D.Vtdigger.org, Sept. 26, 2012Fletcher Allen Health Care and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have formed their new accountable care organization (ACO) called OneCare
Single-payer system would save American lives, money
By Richard A. Damon, M.D.Bozeman Chronicle, Letters, Sept. 25, 2012By Richard A. Damon, M.D. | Bozeman Chronicle, Letters
The nation should be ashamed that we allowed
Music and health care
By Anne Scheetz, M.D.Chicago Tribune, Letters, Sept. 24, 2012By Anne Scheetz, M.D. | Chicago Tribune, Letters
If we get rid of health insurance companies with their