By Bill GravesThe Oregonian, Nov. 7, 2011A group of Oregon physicians who call themselves the Mad as Hell Doctors failed to put a single-payer option
The Fight to Save Britain’s NHS
By Jacqueline Davis, M.D.[Note: The following remarks were delivered to the Annual Meeting of Physicians for a National Health Program in Washington, D.C., on Oct.
Psychiatrists Should Prescribe Good Jobs!
By H. Steven Moffic, MDPsychiatric Times, November 3, 2011,“Love and work are the cornerstones of our civilization.” This quote, rightly or wrongly attributed to Freud,
Increasing Medicare Age Could Lead To Higher Costs
By Julie RovnerNPR, Nov. 7, 2011Congress' so-called deficit reduction "supercommittee" is down to the final weeks of deliberations in its efforts to come up with
Health care legislation botched
By Bill RoyThe Topeka Capital-Journal, Nov. 6. 2011The New York Times on Oct. 30 published the first of a promised series of articles by Ezekiel
IBEW International Convention Endorses Single Payer
By Kay TillowAll Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676, 11/02/2011The 38th convention of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has endorsed single
Health care solution is simple: single-payer
By DAVE ZWEIFEL | Cap Times editor emeritusThe Capital Times (Madison, Wis.), Nov. 2, 2011The answer to the nation’s health care crisis is staring everyone
Roll cuts won’t aid Medicare
By Jonathan D. Walker, M.D.The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Oct. 30, 2011When it comes to our health care system, sometimes the obvious thing is
Health Care Blues – or, Why Exactly Don’t We Have Single-Payer National Health Insurance?
By J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D.Imagine the following exchange on the phone:“Is this 911?”“Yes.”“I have an armed intruder in my house. Please send the police
PNHP supports Occupy Wall Street because we want our patients to be healthy.
Statement from PNHP N.Y. Metro chapterWe support OWS because the private health insurance industry exemplifies the central complaint of the OWS movement: unchecked corporate greed
Gov. Shumlin and the Push for Single-Payer Health Care
By John Buntin Governing, Oct. 25, 2011 At a time when states are struggling to comply with the provisions of the Affordable Care Act
What Obama can learn from Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was at heart a moderate, but he abandoned moderation on slavery when this proved to be morally and politically unsuited to the imperatives
