This is a very important paper because addresses one of the most controversial issues in the current health care reform debate: Should a Medicare-like plan
For more than 20 years, PNHPās Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.
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Jacob Hacker provides details for public option
Institute for America's Future and Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security
Policy Brief
April 2009
Healthy Competition: How to Structure Public Health Insurance Plan Choice to
Lewin report on the public option
No details have been released by either Congress or the administration about the specifics of a potential public insurance option that could be offered in
Lewin report on the public option
The Cost and Coverage Impacts of a Public Plan: Alternative Design Options
Prepared by John Sheils Randy Haught
The Lewin Group
April 6, 2009
President Obama has proposed to
McClellan asks, "What would be the point?"
Mark McClellan has it right. The only hope for gaining the support of Republicans is to make the government option "look like another private sector
McClellan asks, “What would be the point?”
Democrats seek compromise on health care plan
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
The Washington Post
April 2, 2009
Democrats are seeking a compromise on a bigger government role in insurance coverage
McClellan asks, "What would be the point?"
Democrats seek compromise on health care plan
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
The Washington Post
April 2, 2009
Democrats are seeking a compromise on a bigger government role in insurance coverage
How many doctors support single payer?
This study supports the findings of other surveys that confirm that almost all physicians want reform of our current health care system, but they remain
FRONTLINE's "Sick Around America"
T.R. Reid had hosted FRONTLINE's "Sick Around the World," an important documentary describing successful health programs in several other nations that provide care for everyone
FRONTLINE’s “Sick Around America”
Sick Around America
FRONTLINE
March 31, 2009
Investigating the stories of Americans whose lives have become a quest to find and keep health insurance...
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Dear FRONTLINE,
T.R. Reid
FRONTLINE's "Sick Around America"
Sick Around America
FRONTLINE
March 31, 2009
Investigating the stories of Americans whose lives have become a quest to find and keep health insurance...
Join the Discussion
Dear FRONTLINE,
T.R. Reid
How many doctors support single payer?
U.S. Physicians' Views on Financing Options to Expand Health Insurance Coverage: A National Survey
By Danny McCormick, Steffie Woolhandler, Anjali Bose-Kolanu, Antonio Germann, David H. Bor