…in http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-voter-worries. 2007, Associated Press. 13. Trapp, D., Internist society sees single-payer as option. 2007 December 24/31, Amednews.com. 14. Baker, D., Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut…
Disdainful Economists, Hubristic Jurists, and Fanatical Republicans: A Recipe for Single-Payer Health Care?
…little new has come along to change the political landscape, until this week. Now, the MIT economist Jonathan Gruber is at the center of a controversy over arrogant and disdainful…
Worse Than the Mob: The Insurance Industry Is Organized Crime
…and my dealings with the insurance industry began, and it has been downhill at speed ever since. There is exactly one insurance company in New Hampshire peddling plans through the…
So it’s the prices, but what do we do?
…prices were once again the highest of those in the countries surveyed for nearly all of the common services and procedures reviewed. http://www.ifhp.com/news97.html And… Determining the Level of Payments in…
Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) in U. S. Health Care—Long Overdue
…quality of life, or both. Given that the U. S. has the most expensive health care in the world, with comparatively low value and outcomes compared to many other advanced…
The Bredesen-Gruber dispute represents much more than a math problem
…of the magnitude of the new subsidies created by Congress, the economics become compelling for many employers to simply drop coverage and help their employees obtain replacement coverage through an…
Stuart Butler on the 30 million uninsured
…Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming? Heritage Foundation: “A National Health System for America” 1/2/89 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1989/a-national-health-system-for-america USA TODAY: “Don’t blame Heritage for ObamaCare mandate” by Stuart Butler http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-02-03/health-individual-mandate-reform-heritage/52951140/1…
New York Assembly passes the New York Health Act
…in our health care system that cannot be addressed by incremental change in that system,” Gottfried said. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/05/8568890/assembly-passes-universal-health-care-bill?top-featured-2 **** Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Although there remains considerable political resistance…
The Democrats’ Authoritarian Health “Reform” Bill and the Ascendency of Corporatism in the Democratic Party
…federal government. In effect, this represents an historic defeat for the type of liberalism represented by the New Deal and the Great Society and the ascendancy of a new type…
International Survey: U.S. Leads In Medical Errors
…(Washington Post, January 12, 2005). FREE FROM HEALTH AFFAIRS Be the first to see what’s new in health policy. Sign up for new content e-mail alerts from Health Affairs. NEW!…
This August, let’s turn up the heat on Congress
…leader Meadows mentioned “Medicare for all.” http://www.motherjones.com… Narragansett, RI (August 8) Town hall meeting with Rep. James Langevin http://www.independentri.com… Minneapolis, MN (August 9) Health care forum with Rep. Keith Ellison…
Calling All Single Payer Supporters
…single payer tweets until “single payer” gets onto Twitter.com’s “trending topics” board. Sign up for Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com and start by following “singlepayer”. 2. www.1payer.net has launched a “fax them…