By Robert Reich Wall Street Pit, Sept. 13, 2012Employer outlays for workers’ health insurance slowed from a 9 percent jump last year to less than
More Americans got health insurance in 2011, Census says
By Maggie FoxNBC News, Sept. 12, 2012More Americans got health insurance coverage in 2011 as young adults jumped onto their parent’s health insurance plans, the
Medical debt still problem in Mass.
Scant change since passage of ’06 health lawBy Chelsea ConaboyThe Boston Globe, Sept. 10, 2012Architects of the pioneering 2006 Massachusetts health law, which required most
Maine should resist the rise of for-profit hospital chains
By Philip Caper, M.D.The Portland Press Herald, Sept. 6, 2012The recent news about the possibility that nonprofit Mercy Hospital will be acquired by a for-profit
ACA vs. single payer: Bury the hatchet? An exchange
The Nation, Aug. 28, 2012 PNHP note: The following exchange among PNHP co-founders Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein, attorney Oliver Hall, and former
Medicine and Empire: Book Review
By Steffie Woolhandler and David HimmelsteinMonthly Review, September 2012Howard Waitzkin, “Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire” (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2011), 256
Health Care Flaws
The New York Times, Letters, Aug. 27, 2012 To the Editor:Leonard Rodberg and Elaine Fox, M.D. | The New York Times, Letters
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Senator Kennedy’s Compromise
By Philip Caper, M.D. The New York Review of Books, July 12, 2012 In Marcia Angell’s critique of Ronald Dworkin’s article about the
Aetna Builds Empire: One Denial at A Time
By Donna Smith MichaelMoore.com, August 22, 2012 It’s a business. It’s big business, and it’s all about the money. When plans for Aetna to purchase Coventry
The politics of health care
By Sara Stalman, M.D.Bangor Daily News, Aug. 22, 2012To write about health care and politics is to write about the sacred and the profane.Our word
For patients or for profits?
By Helen Redmond Socialist Worker, Aug. 22, 2012 Helen Redmond reports on a series of scandals hitting for-profit health care giant HCA--and looks at how
Health plan competition improves quality, right? Right??? – ctd.
By Aaron Carroll, M.D.The Incidental Economist, August 21, 2012 Yesterday, Austin highlighted a paper that said competition might not increase quality. Here’s another paper that goes even