Niko Karvounis
Health Beat Blog (www.healthbeatblog.org)
December 05, 2007
On Monday the CDC released a landmark, and in many ways devastating, report on health care in the U.S.
Silencing nurses endangers patients' care
Louisville Courier-Journal Readers' forum Monday, December 3, 2007The results of the studies have been released and they prove what every hospital nurse knows from experience.
Insurance access must improve
By Mary Ann Garnar
OP-ED
Special to The Courier-Journal
Monday, December 3, 2007
Most thoughtful people in the United States recognize that the difficulties of obtaining health insurance --
Silencing nurses endangers patients’ care
Louisville Courier-Journal Readers' forum Monday, December 3, 2007The results of the studies have been released and they prove what every hospital nurse knows from experience.
Socialized Medicine Belittled on Campaign Trail
by Julie Rovner
NPR Morning Edition
December 6, 2007
Click here to listen to the story.
In the debate over health care on the campaign trail, the term "socialized
Curbing Medicare Advantage Overpayments Would Strengthen Medicare
Center on Budget and Public Policies
December 5, 2007
Center on Budget and Public Policies
The government pays Medicare Advantage plans roughly $1,000 more per beneficiary per year
The Presidential Candidates on Health Care
Farhana Hossain The New York TimesFarhana Hossain | The New York Times
The leading Democrats are competing among themselves over who has the better plan to
Democrats get infusion of campaign money from health care
By JASON ROBERSON
The Dallas Morning News
jroberson@dallasnews.com
10:29 AM CST on Tuesday, December 4, 2007
In Texas and across the country, doctors, insurers and health care executives --
Insurers doom reform effort
Berkshire Eagle
Letters
12/4/07
I read Dr. Susanne King's account of Blue Cross Blue Shield executive William C. Van Fassen's $16.4 million retirement package and $3 million salary
Doctors endorse single-payer
American College of Physicians said it backed the system because access to health care had deteriorated.
By Stacey Burling
Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Tue, Dec. 4,
Single-payer healthcare is the one way
By Michael Kaplan
Boston Globe
December 3, 2007
Along with most residents of Massachusetts, I assumed that the Massachusetts Health Reform Law was going to allow my
Health care: Make it affordable, available to all
The Des Moines Register's Editorial
December 3, 2007
All the major presidential candidates have one thing in common: They've gotten help from taxpayers to pay for their