…be fully offset with increases in revenue or spending cuts elsewhere. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Newsletters/Washington-Health-Policy-in-Review/2009/Mar/Washington-Health-Policy-Week-in-Review-March-23-2009/For-Blue-Dogs-Health-Budget-Raises-Questions-Of-When-Not-Just-How.aspx Comment: By Don McCanne, MD The Blue Dog coalition in the House of Representatives has often assisted Republicans…
Why Has the Press Failed Us In Reporting on Health Care Reform?
An Open Letter to Bill Keller, Executive Editor, New York Times, and Clark Hoyt, Public Editor, New York Times
…Peer-reviewed studies of public-private competition are not hard to find, nor are experts with varying opinions. Compare the CSM discussion with almost any medical news story in the New York…
Activists Rally: Demand Albany Pass NY Single-Payer Bill
…Act has passed twice in the Assembly, which expects to pass it again for the third year in a row. Assembly Health Committee Chair and bill sponsor Democrat Dick Gottfried…
Purchasing insurance across state lines doesn’t work and causes more problems than it can possibly solve
…well. When that happens, the state insurance officials step in to sort things out. New Hampshire doesn’t have the budget to oversee out-of-state health insurance companies, which means that New…
Universal Health Care Bill Passes N.Y. Assembly
…note: Additional coverage of the N.Y. Assembly’s action is available at the links below. Legislative Gazette (Albany, N.Y.) http://legislativegazette.com/archives/3373 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/249523/advocates-push-for-state-level-single-payer-health-care-system/ North Country Now (Potsdam, N.Y.) http://northcountrynow.com/news/single-payer-health-care-bill-sponsored-russell-clears-assembly-would-provide-insurance-all-new…
Bassett calls race a critical factor in public health
By Dan Goldberg Politico New York, Sept. 1, 2015 Last week, New York City’s health commissioner gathered her staff in their Long Island City headquarters. It was part of a…
State health insurance 'reform' is making matters worse
…New Hampshire? According to the Insurance Commission, since the bill became law in January, just one insurance company has come to this state, period. The three or four others who…
New Hampshire Presidential Primary Televised Health Care Forum
…N. Commercial Street, Manchester New Hampshire. With health care issues the top and most important domestic issue and concern of New Hampshire voters, MCAM (Manchester Community Access Media; Chan. 23)…
State Assembly points the way forward on health care
…add a wink, for they believe the insurance companies are simply too rich and too powerful. The not-so-subtle message: give up and prepare for compromise with the private insurance industry….
Faith groups: health care is a moral right
…from the event at http://picasaweb.google.com/jonflan/SinglePayerTownHallWithJohnConyers# Single Payer New York: http://www.singlepayernewyork.org/ A supplementary note from Mark Dunlea: After the event, the speaker receiving was the most praise was Dr. Andy Coates…
Pioneer nun expanded health care in New Mexico
…reform in America. Compassion and common sense have been overcome by the political power of the vested interests. Sister Blandina represents the triumph of compassion. Some say that universal health…
Vermont news, Medicare threatened, new PNHP slide show
…of Medicare as a social insurance program and is pushing new, draconian Medicaid cuts as deficit-cutting “necessities.” Dr. Don McCanne swiftly commented on Ryan’s proposals here. Dr. Margaret Flowers, PNHP’s…