Jessica S. Banthin, Ph.D., Peter Cunningham, Ph.D., Didem M. Bernard, Ph.D.
Health Affairs
January 8, 2008
In the Literature
Jessica S. Banthin, Ph.D., Peter Cunningham, Ph.D., Didem M.
Canadian health care better and cheaper than U.S., says research
Joanne Laucius
CanWest News Service
Ottawa Citizen
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
OTTAWA - Canada's health care system offers "excellent value for the money" says a British researcher who
Add Insurance Industry to the Iowa Loss Column
Rose Ann DeMoro
The Huffington Post
January 4, 2008
As the scorecard in Iowa is tallied, add insurance companies to the loser camp along with the disgraceful, rhetorical
U.S. Has Most Preventable Deaths Among 19 Nations
Nearly 100,000 excess deaths annually in United States
Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis
Ellen Nolte, Ph.D., and C. Martin McKee, M.D., D.Sc.
Health Affairs
January
US has worst record of death from treatable disease
By Nicholas Timmins
Financial Times
January 8 2008
More US patients die from diseases that could be treated by timely intervention than in any other leading industrialised country,
Advocates push new hospital care funding
By DANIEL BARLOW
Vermont Press Bureau
Article published Jan 4, 2008
MONTPELIER -- While legislative leaders talk about a slow expansion of Catamount Health and Gov. James
To Our Health, in the New Year
New York Times
LETTERS
December 21, 2007
To the Editor:
Re ''I Am Not a Health Reform,'' by David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler (Op-Ed, Dec. 15):
While the authors
Missing the Boat on Health Care?
Missing the Boat on Health Care?
By John P. Geyman
Tikkun
Jan/Feb 2008
John Geyman's Tikkun article on whether we are about to miss the boat on health care
CIGNA Capitulates to Patient Revolt
Following Massive Protest, Insurer Authorizes
Transplant for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan
CNA/NNOC-Sponsored Protest Sparks Flood of Calls from Across U.S.
In a stunning turn around, insurance giant CIGNA has
Evaluation of Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform Final Recommendations
by Michele Swenson Board Member, Health Care for All Colorado Co-Authors of Colorado Health Services Single Payer Proposal January 2, 2008 Overview: Colorado Blue
Free drug samples go to wealthy, insured
By Kim Dixon
Reuters
January 2, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Insured and wealthy Americans were more likely than the poor to get billions of dollars in free drug
Editorial: Honesty in health care
By Bangor Daily News Staff
Monday, December 31, 2007
Polls show that health care is a major issue -- rivaled only by the Iraq war -- in