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,
Trusted Rx for Ill Nation
By Dan Carpenter
Indianapolis Star
February 12, 2006
To prescribe health savings accounts for a medical system that's the most overpriced, overcomplicated, underperforming and unfair in the developed
VA Care Is Rated Superior to That in Private Hospitals
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 20, 2006; A15
The Department of Veterans Affairs medical system once epitomized poor-quality care. But after a series of
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
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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
Group seeks health care remedies
By Hilary Corrigan
Coast Press Reporter
February 8, 2006
It's an ambitious goal, Lewes resident Lloyd Mills admits.
Installing a long-term, universal health care coverage system in Delaware --
Progs hit Dems over healthcare
By John Zicconi
Vermont Press Bureau
February 8, 2006
MONTPELIER ā Vermont's Progressive caucus on Tuesday harshly criticized the Democrat-controlled Legislature for not conducting studies that could show
Reform languishes
Editorial
Times Argus (Barre-Montpelier, VT)
February 2, 2006
One of the leading advocates of health care reform has given members of the Legislature, Democrats and Republicans, a failing
Catching the health-reform bug
By Lance Dickie
The Seattle Times
February 10, 2006
The nation's health-care system has not gotten bad enough yet for real change to occur. Just wait.
An increasingly anxious