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Dr. Oliver Fein Wins Award for Excellence in Public Health
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A simpler system
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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 ā which covers things like disease prevention, cancer screenings, contraceptives and vaccines ā
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,
The Co-ops Collapse: How GOP & HMOs Undercut Obamacare’s Nonprofit Option, Leaving 500K Uninsured
By Amy GoodmanDemocracy Now, Nov. 3, 2015By Amy Goodman | Democracy Now
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler: And 10 of the 23 co-ops have closed, and several more
Healthcare Costs Loom for Roseburg Shooting Victims
Everyone who needs healthcare should be able to receive it, regardless of their financial conditionBy Sam Metz, M.D.The Lund Report (Portland, Ore.), Oct. 28, 2015The
Brief Comments on ColoradoCare
By Ida Hellander, M.D., David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.Organizers for the ColoradoCare ballot initiative have contacted some activists in Physicians for
I just turned 26. Hereās what I learned while buying health insurance.
By Augie Lindmark KevinMD blog, Oct. 5, 2015 I cracked a Budweiser and flipped on Spotify radio for what I was told would be a
Live and let live: Are we closer to a national health program?
By Aaron BurchLouisville Medicine, October 2015The protection of patients and physicians has been a continuous fight in America for decades. One of the biggest moments