By Randall Palmer
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's political leaders reached an 11th-hour funding deal on Wednesday aimed at preventing further erosion of the country's ailing universal
SINGLE-PAYER: REPS. CONYERS, MCDERMOTT INTRODUCE BILL
National Journal,
February 5, 2003
Dr. MARCIA ANGELL ON INTRODUCING THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL
February 4, 2003
Washington D.C.
We are here today to introduce a national health insurance program. Such a program is no longer optional; it’s necessary.
Weighing Privatization
Critics say private drug plans leave seniors paying more for less
By Deborah Barfield Berry
WASHINGTON BUREAU
February 3, 2003
Washington - Over the years, Diane Paulson has watched
Health Insurance: All Aboard
New York Times Letters to the Editor
January 31, 2003
To the Editor:
To satisfy President Bush's call for universal health insurance, Ted Halstead wants to make it
Dr. Frist to the Rescue
How not to fix Medicare
Marcia Angell M.D.
Bush trades Rx benefits for tax cuts
By Thomas Oliphant, 1/28/2003
WASHINGTON:PRESIDENT BUSH took office two years ago with a preposterous message against the gauzy backdrop of a phantom budget surplus that we
House leaders seeking universal healthcare
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
By Robbie Dingeman Advertiser Health Writer
State House leaders yesterday proposed an overhaul of the healthcare insurance system in Hawai'i, creating a state
Frist has serious conflict on health care issue
January 23, 2003
Chicago Sun-Times
Op-Ed
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist must recuse himself from health care legislation deliberations.
He comes to his new post with a record of
The Malpractice Crisis
Published on Monday, January 6, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
by Ralph Nader
Have you been watching the tv news or the tv news magazine shows lately about the
Frist’s loyalty is to health care industry, not patients
January 4, 2003
By Jamie Court and Frank Smith
Capitol Hill's well-heeled lobbyists and political cognoscenti have proclaimed that with a doctor in charge
The Bad Doctor: Bill Frist’s long record of corporate vices
by Doug Ireland
LA Weekly
While TV gushed last week over the Republicans’ new Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, intervening in a traffic accident, portraying the former