By Lisa RapaportReuters, Feb. 9, 2017(Reuters Health) - Black patients are half as likely as white patients to get care at academic medical centers in
Single-payer health system: the best solution
By Jessica Schorr Saxe, M.D.Consumer Reports, Letters, March 2017Re: "How to Get High-Quality, Low-Cost Healthcare," January 2017:By Jessica Schorr Saxe, M.D. | Consumer Reports, Letters,
A Vote for Tom Price is a Vote to Destroy Medicare
By Nancy J. AltmanThe Huffington Post, Feb. 7, 2017No one voted to destroy Medicare. Yet, the first battle in the war over Medicare has arrived.Why
State needs single payer
By Michael Kaplan, M.D.The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.), Feb. 7, 2017With an unpredictable president now in the White House, with no track record and conflicting
No Backward Steps in Health Care – Forward to Single Payer
By Kay TillowDaily Kos, Feb. 4, 2017Life expectancy in the United States just went down. We were already several years behind other advanced countries. People
Looking for a really good Obamacare replacement? Here it is
By David LazarusLos Angeles Times, Feb. 3, 2017Supporters of healthcare reform may feel disheartened as President Trump and Republican lawmakers prepare to repeal the Affordable
‘The Single-Payer Healthcare Fight Goes National … Again’
By Lynn Marie Morski, M.D.IVN (Independent Voter Project), Feb. 2, 2017One of the more notable tenets of Bernie Sandersā platform during his campaign for president
Healthcare solution: Make Medicare available to all ages
By Carol Paris, M.D., and Jack BernardThe Citizen (Fayetteville, Ga.), Jan. 31, 2017We read the letter by David Browning and agree with many of the
Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
The impact of Republicans' war on Obamacare is likely to be worse than anyone expectsBy David Himmelstein and Steffie WoolhandlerThe Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2017By
Healthcare Proponents Rally at Women’s March
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Access to buying insurance is not health coverage
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Replace Obamacare with single-payer national health insurance
By Claudia Fegan, M.D.STAT, January 20, 2017During the bruising 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to repeal Obamacare āon day one of the Trump administration.ā