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
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Brief Comments on ColoradoCare
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I just turned 26. Here’s 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
Houston-Trained Doctor Leads Push For Single-Payer Health Plan
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Vermont’s Newest Medical Students Weigh in on Single-Payer
Newswise, Oct. 21, 2015Source Newsroom: University of Vermont Newswise — In Bernie Sanders’s home state of Vermont, the newest class of medical students will
Medicare for all would solve many health problems
By Monisha Bhatia, Margaret Axelrod, Emily Holmes, Mitchell Hayes and Connor BeeboutThe Tennessean, Oct. 19, 2015By Monisha Bhatia, Margaret Axelrod, Emily Holmes, Mitchell Hayes and
U.S. Health Care Could Be More Like Denmark’s
By Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.The New York Times, Room for Debate, Oct. 20, 2015The United States isn’t Denmark, but it can, like Scandinavia, implement changes to
‘Medicare buy-in’ not a solution
By Christine Adams, Ph.D.Houston Chronicle, Letters, Oct. 13, 2015Regarding "Medicare for all Americans? Yes, if we want to save a ton of money" (Page D1,
Remove health care from the cost of business
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Letters, Oct. 12, 2015Patriot Coal’s latest bankruptcy success once again draws attention to the desperate measures some employers take
It’s time to embrace single-payer system
By Andrew D. Coates, M.D.Times Union (Albany, NY), Oct. 9, 2015Why won't "single payer" — the call for one public health insurance program to cover