…representing health maintenance organizations, has been working with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to help draft a plan that includes a mandate. Another player in Kennedy’s backroom meetings is the Pharmaceutical…
Single payer would improve health care for everyone
…system? Yes, we do. Medicare is suffering financially because of the intrusion of private health-maintenance organizations, which were initially put into place as a cost-effective system, but were actually less…
Now Is The Time For Universal Health Care
…have no health insurance and millions more are underinsured–is the only industrialized nation not to have universal health care. Even some developing countries have universal health care. Private health insurance…
Philadelphia City Council Votes to Support Single-Payer Healthcare
Various Groups Present, Applaud Council for Vote that Makes Philadelphia 28th City to Favor HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act
For Immediate Release January 29, 2009 For more information: Kathleen Casey, PASNAP: 610-246-1369 Jeff Muckenstrum, Healthcare-NOW!: 267-515-2400 Today, groups representing doctors, nurses, healthcare advocates and labor unions are applauding the…
Local man spearheads statewide health-care movement
…services. The law would allow nonprofit health maintenance organizations that deliver care in their own facilities to participate in the USNHI program and would give patients the freedom to choose…
Yikes!!! I'm a Slave to Socialized Medicine
…World Health Organization rate the French system as the best in the world, and far better than average health care in the United States. Life expectancy and most other relevant…
The Untold Health Care Story: How They Crippled Medicare
…grand promises from the insurance companies of more care for less money, and Medicare recipients flocked to the health maintenance organizations, my husband and I among them. But it wasn’t…
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Slowdown Stalls in 1st Half of 2004
…of higher cost sharing in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs) or through so-called consumer-directed health plans, which typically include a high deductible and an account to…
Uninsured by choice?
Hispanics Push Texas to No. 1 in Uninsured Residents
…for many. Does their outspoken insensitivity to the unmet health care needs in this nation really resonate with the public? If not, then why doesn’t our compassion translate into action?…