Healthy Choice
Philadelphia Weekly
(May 17-23)
by Jesse Smith
Last month Massachusetts garnered national attention for legislation heralded as an answer to the state's-and possibly the nation's-problem of health
Health Care Spending and Use of Information Technology in OECD Countries
Commonwealth Fund - Publications - May 2006
U.S. health spending per capita significantly and consistently outpaces that of other industrialized nations. One proposal for lowering health
Answer to health care issue
By Dr. Susanne King
Berkshire Eagle
Wednesday, May 10
SMALL BUSINESSES are a mainstay of the Berkshires Ā restaurants, stores, garages, contracting and landscaping businesses, and many more,
Editorial Independence and the Canadian Medical Association Journal
John Hoey, M.D.
NEJM
May 11, 2006
On February 20, after almost 10 years as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), I
How To Fix The System
By DONALD BERWICK
Time www.time.com web exclusive
Monday, Apr. 24, 2006
Donald Berwick is a Massachusetts pediatrician and president of the
A doctor speaks out
Dr. Stack wants "Medicare for everyone"
by David Hoppe
Until his retirement in 2004, Dr. Christopher Stack was known as one of the city's leading orthopedic surgeons.
Unions Should Break With Managed Care
by Kip Sullivan
May 2006
During the 1980s and '90s, cost-control tactics pioneered by HMOs spread throughout the entire health insurance industry. Those tactics, known collectively
Massachusetts' 'Universal Coverage' Bill is No Such Thing
By Kip Sullivan
In These Times, May 8, 2006
Odds are good that Romney will rue the day he took credit for this bill.
Making a Case for a Single-Payer System
A CONVERSATION WITH QUENTIN YOUNG, M.D.
Leaving health care in the hands of a market groping for direction is feeding a public outcry that this physician
Massachusetts' health plan is not single-payer
By Matthew W. Petty
Op-Ed, The Forum (Fargo, ND)
May 4, 2006
The single-payer national health insurance system described by Josh Swanson in his April 23 opinion in
Cover the uninsured
New Jersey, EDITORIAL
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Tomorrow begins the fourth Cover the Uninsured Week, a nonpartisan, national effort to urge U.S. leaders to make health
Unions Back Single-Payer Health Plan
SINGLE-PAYER GOVT. HEALTH CARE BILL GAINS UNION BACKERS AS 'COVER THE UNINSURED' WEEK RUNS
By Press Associates, Inc. Staff Writer Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) – A bill