With lowered costs and universal coverage, single-payer American health care would cure many illsBy David L. Adams, M.D.Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Dec. 26, 2015By David
A Single-Payer System: Best for Doctors and Patients Alike?
By Neil ChesanowMedscape, Dec. 21, 2015Recently, Medscape published two provocative articles on the viability of a single-payer healthcare system in which experts took opposing views
Why the profit-driven market model doesn’t work in health care
By Jessica Schorr Saxe, M.D.The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Dec. 17, 2015“Is medicine a business or is that an oxymoron?” asked the moderator of panel members
Single payer momentum builds with PNHP
By Dave Dvorak, M.D., M.P.H.MetroDoctors: The Journal of the Twin Cities Medical Society, November/December 2015The 23-year-old young man sitting before me in the emergency department
What is single payer and why should obstetrician-gynecologists care?
By Carrie Ann Terrell, M.D., FACOGMetroDoctors: The Journal of the Twin Cities Medical Society, November/December 2015Having a baby in Minnesota is a pretty good deal.
Suspicions about health care costs confirmed
Yale University study reveals opportunistic pricing patternsBy Chris TomlinsonHouston Chronicle, Dec. 16, 2015Hospitals and doctors behave similarly to other for-profit businesses when it comes to
Dr. Oliver Fein Wins Award for Excellence in Public Health
Weill Cornell Medical College News, Dec. 4, 2015Dr. Oliver Fein, associate dean (affiliations) and a professor of clinical medicine and of clinical healthcare policy and
A simpler system
By Richard A. Lippin, M.D.The Philadelphia Inquirer, Letters, Nov. 23, 2015Thanks to Don Sapatkin for writing about soaring and complex medical bills ("The anatomy of
Co-ops collapsing
By Dave AndersonBoulder (Colo.) Weekly, Nov. 19, 2015Recently, some 500,000 people around the country suddenly lost their health insurance as 10 of 23 nonprofit health
U.S. public health funding on the decline
By Lisa RapaportReuters, Nov. 18, 2015(Reuters Health) - U.S. public health funding – which covers things like disease prevention, cancer screenings, contraceptives and vaccines –
Medicaid linked with better blood pressure control
By Kathryn DoyleReuters, Nov. 17, 2015(Reuters Health) - Low-income people with Medicaid health insurance are more knowledgeable about their health status and have better control
CEO Richard Master Masterminds Full Medicare for All
By Ralph NaderThe Huffington Post, Nov. 6, 2015Just when the prospects for single-payer or full Medicare for everyone, with free choice of doctors and hospitals,