By Bernie SandersCommonDreams.org, Sept. 13, 2011By Bernie Sanders | CommonDreams.org
The crisis of poverty in America is one of the great moral and economic issues
Number of Uninsured Up Another Million
By John GeverMedPage Today, Sept. 13, 2011A record 49.9 million Americans were without health insurance during 2010, up almost 2% from the 49.0 million uninsured
Study: Costs Keep Med Students From Much-Needed Mental Health Care
By Fran CroninWBUR CommonHealth blog, Sept. 7, 2011Medical students are a challenged lot — sleep-deprived, stressed and driven. With the constant cramming of facts into
Med Students' Own Mental Health Care
By Elizabeth MurphyInside Higher Ed, Sept. 7, 2011A study published Tuesday paints a grim picture of America’s increasingly stressed medical students, in what researchers say
Single-payer works
Letter to the EditorHelena (Mont.) Independent Record, September 5, 2011The IR’s editorial of Aug. 28 suggests that the “state needs insurance competition, … giving Montanans
Sally Pipes threatens us with Medicare for All
Democrats' Plan B For Medicare: Medicare For AllBy Sally PipesForbes, September 6, 2011Democrats know the individual mandate might go up in smoke. So they’ve started
Most Med Schools Offer Subpar Mental Health Coverage
By Deborah BrauserMedscape News Today, Sept. 6, 2011Most medical schools in the United States do not offer health insurance plans that sufficiently cover mental health
Reform health care with evidence, not ideology
By Rick Kvam, M.D.Letters, Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin, Sept. 1, 2011Dr. Mark Liebow's op-ed supporting single-payer health care reform flies in the face of current cries
The Great Health Care Takeaway
By Shamus CookeZSpace, August 30, 2011 By Shamus Cooke | ZSpace
The health care crisis in the United States is getting worse with no visible end.
An Insurance Maze for U.S. Doctors
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.The New York Times, Well blog, Aug. 25, 2011A former colleague from Canada who practiced medicine with me here in the
The Ryan Medicaid Plan: A Threat to Middle Class Security
The Medicaid changes in the Ryan budget plan would have extraordinary implications not only for the poor individuals who are normally thought of as the
Healthcare, babies and the national debt: The real cost
By Jonathan D. Walker, M.D.Frost Illustrated (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Aug. 24, 2011The term “infant mortality rate” is a measure of the number of babies that