It's time to start a conversation about national health care. We should talk health to death, plan it out and then find a way to
Two women, two cancers, two health-care systems
By Tom O'Brien
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, December 29, 2005
After a long time away, you see with new eyes.
I moved back to the United States with my
To avoid the cruelest cut of all
By Glenn Hameroff
Community Voices
Daytona Beach News-Journal
January 04, 2006
Public Employee Health Benefits to Evaporate
Note to Health Care Reform Activists: Public Employee Health Benefits to Evaporate
by Andy Coates
Monthly Review Zine
12/25/05
Health costs will cause more strikes
By David Lazarus
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, December 23, 2005
The devastating transit strike that left New Yorkers trudging through the cold this week probably made more than
Medicine: Who Decides?
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
December 26, 2005
Health care seems to be heading back to the top of the political agenda, and not a moment
Hospital bills — but with interest
Now patients who can't pay, or who have high deductibles, can get credit cards specifically for medical care. But the rates can reach 23%.
By Daniel
Health care reform urged
Speakers at town hall meeting call for universal coverage through government program
By Patrick Cain
Special to the Times Union
Thursday, December 15, 2005
ALBANY, New York -- Medicaid
Kitzhaber's Rx for state
In eyeing a new run for governor, he thinks on a revolutionary scale
By David Steves
The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon
Saturday, December 17, 2005
The last time John Kitzhaber
Kitzhaber’s Rx for state
In eyeing a new run for governor, he thinks on a revolutionary scale
By David Steves
The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon
Saturday, December 17, 2005
The last time John Kitzhaber
Universal medicare: TV is listening; what about Washington?
A reader writes, āWhat are your thoughts about the statement by Matt Santos, the Democratic presidential nominee on TVās āThe West Wing,ā that extending Medicare
New Study Shows U.S. Hospital Charges Continue to Rise, Even After Changes in Medicare Payment Policy
California Nurses Association
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December 13, 2005
Contact: Charles Idelson, 510-273-2246, 415-559-8991 (pg/cell), or the IHSP at 510-267-0634.
New research on pricing practices of over