By J. Mark Ryan, M.D.Letters, The Newport (R.I.) Daily News, Dec. 10, 2011An article in the Dec. 1 Daily News stated that Newport Hospital provided
Who is essential? Insurers or consumers?
Behind-the-scenes battle raging over just what health benefits will be required by the Obama administrationBy Wendell PotteriWatch News, Dec. 12, 2011The money that patientsā rights
Why Competition Among Health Plans Can't Help Us
By Stephen Kemble, M.D.OpEdNews, Nov. 17, 2011By Stephen Kemble, M.D. | OpEdNews
With or without with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the total national cost of
Students Occupy for Health Justice
By Danielle AlexanderAMSA On Call blog, Dec. 7, 2011I met a patient last week who stopped taking her antidepressant medications because she had been denied
Occupying the health care industry
By Jordan GreenYes! Weekly (Greensboro, N.C.), Dec. 7, 2011The Cone Health Family Medicine Center on North Church Street in Greensboro might seem an unlikely place
British physicians to government: āWithdraw the health billā
British Medical AssociationPress release, Dec. 7, 2011Chaotic and poorly coordinated structural change currently taking place throughout the National Health Service in England before the Health
List of essential services under U.S. health reforms is āskimpyā and dangerous, say doctors
By Jeanne LenzerBMJ, Dec. 5, 2011A national doctorsā organization says that most of the authors of a federally sponsored report on recommended health insurance coverage
Health Exchange Benefits Should Be More Generous, Docs Say
By MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDERThe Oncology Report, Dec. 2, 2011Physicians who support a single-payer health system are urging the federal government to reject the Institute of
Health reform devolves into āunaffordable under-insuranceā
By Roger BybeeIn These Times, Nov. 30, 2011Health care reform in the shape of the 2010 Affordable Care Act was supposed to relieve working Americans
Less care for fewer and fewer
By Helen Redmond Healthcare-Now blog, Nov. 29, 2011 Evidence of how bad the U.S. health care
Occupy welcomes physician sharing vision for single-payer health system
By Zack RubinThe Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Dec. 5, 2011By Zack Rubin | The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Dr. Steve Auerbach has
Health providers, advocates criticize Institute of Medicine on insurance recommendations
By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe StaffBoston Globe, White Coat Notes, Dec. 1, 2011More than 2,400 health care providers and advocates sent a letter to Secretary of