Harmonizing Injury Compensation, Provider Accountability, and Patient Safety
Commonwealth Fund, February 2006
Executive Summary
In New Zealand, patients seek compensation for medical injuries not through malpractice suits as
Statement for the Record of Dr. Don R. McCanne to Committee on Ways and Means (March 24, 2004)
Statement for the Record of Dr. Don R. McCanne,
Physicians for a National Health Program, Chicago, Illinois
House Committee on Ways and Means
Hearing on Board of Trustees
Vanquishing the American Dream
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
AlterNet.org
Posted January 24, 2006.
As General Motors shuts down well-paid middle-class jobs, the old slogan 'What's good for G.M. is good for
Canada's Health IT Investments Outpace the United States
Originally published February 16, 2006
Canada Health Infoway by March will have invested $562 million in health IT projects, Richard Alvarez, CEO of the federally funded
Woman Fences Stolen Goods to Pay for Health Insurance
Woman Fences Stolen Goods to Pay for Health Insurance
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 23, 2006
By Steve Liewer
STAFF WRITER
February 23, 2006
A Vista woman was sentenced to prison
Health-care overhaul urged at rally
By Richard Halstead
Marin Independent Journal
February 19, 2006
Guy Esberg of San Anselmo said he recently traveled to Germany for an operation and is contemplating going to
Insurers' Study Tries to Whitewash Truth that Skimpy Coverage Causes Medical Bankruptcy
EMBARGOED UNTIL 12:01 AM EDT
February 28, 2006
Contacts: David Himmelstein, M.D.
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.
(617) 665-1032
Elizabeth Warren, J.D.
(617) 495-3101
Insurers' Study Tries to Whitewash Fact that Skimpy Coverage Contributes
The Future of Medicare: Finishing What We Started
Bruce Vladeck, Ernst & Young LLP
July 2005
As Medicare approaches its 40th anniversary, it's important to recognize that the program's founders would have been profoundly ambivalent
Bad Prescription: Why privatizing Medicare may be hazardous to your health
By Kip Sullivan
Washington Monthly
March, 1999
Doctor finds a Practice in Paradise
By Judith Zwolak
Argus Leader (South Dakota)
January 21, 2006
When family practice physician Vicki Walker took a year's sabbatical from her Vermillion practice to work in Australia,
Economist bashes Bush HSA proposal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- President Bush's health savings account (HSA)plan will mean income-based healthcare rationing, an economist said Tuesday.
"Should healthcare be cheaper for high-income
Medicare: Rich HMOs, Sick Patients
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 9, 2006
1:04 PM
CONTACT: Institute for Public Accuracy
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
Medicare: Rich HMOs, Sick Patients
WASHINGTON - February