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
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
Barbara Ehrenreich: President Bush, Meet Lorraine
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Published on The Progressive (http://progressive.org)
April 2006 Issue
Lorraine has no health insurance. We didn't know that. In fact, we'd been content to believe
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
Private Care Is No Cure
To view Medicare Watch's February 2006 newsletter, click here. (PDF file)
Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem
By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Karen Davis, Ph.D., Michelle M. Doty, Ph.D., Jennifer L. Kriss, and Alyssa L. Holmgren
Commonwealth Fund, April 26, 2006
Overview
Watch a multimedia
Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare
Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare
by John Geyman, 322 pp, with illus, paper, $16.95, ISBN 1-56751-376-X, Monroe, Me, Common Courage Press, 2006.
JAMA.