By Rand Wilson and John Horgan
http://labornotes.org/index.shtml
from Labor Notes, #328, July 2006
Frustrated by the lack of action on health care reform at the national level, activists
A Telephone Worker Responds to Andy Stern on Single Payer Health Care
In a June 16th speech at the Brookings Institute in Washington, Andrew Stern, SEIU President, attacked a Canadian style single payer health care system as
PNHP NY Metro Chapter Responds to Citizens Health Care Working Group Recommendations
THE CITIZENS HEALTH CARE WORKING GROUP LISTENED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WITH ONE EAR
By Len Rodberg, Ph.D.
Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
We
Single-Payer Comeback?
Marilyn Werber Serafini
(mserafini@nationaljournal.com)
National Journal
June 17, 2006
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., is plotting the comeback of a liberal idea that's been locked in a closet for
San Francisco Labor Council Unanimously Passes Resolution in Support of SB840
Resolution in Support of SB840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act (KuehlĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Health Care Plan to Cover All California's) & HR 676, the United States
The Best Medical Care In The U.S.
How Veterans Affairs transformed itself -- and what it means for the rest of us
By Catherine Arnst
Business Week
JULY 17, 2006
Raymond B. Roemer,
UAW Convention Endorses Single Payer Health Care & the Conyers Bill
UAW Convention Resolves to Fight for Single Payer Health Care and Calls for Passage of the Conyers Bill
Two thousand delegates to the 34th International Convention
Economic equality is best medicine
Health of societies mostly relies on political and economic policies, not the individual treatment of disease
By STEPHEN BEZRUCHKA
GUEST COLUMNIST - Seattle PI
Sunday, June 25, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/275142_focus25.html
The
Health Savings Accounts: Why They Won't Cure What Ails U.S. Health Care
by S.R.Collins, Commonwealth Fund
Executive Summary
Invited Testimony before the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on "Health Savings Accounts," June 28,
Bring on National Health Insurance
By Vincent P. Maconi
Delaware On-line, The News Journal, 6/25/06
Editorial for Single-Payer
When Gov. Minner nominated me to be Delaware's secretary of Health and Social Services in
Smooth Sailing in Medicare Drug Benefit May Not Last, Wall Street Seers Say
Commonwealth Health Policy Report
June 22, 2006 -- An annual event that typically gives Washingtonians blinkered by spin and ideology a bracing dose of business perspective
APA President Urges Support For Single-Payer Insurance System
Steven Sharfstein, M.D., ends his year as president of APA in the same way that he began it: by urging APA members to become or