…founding board member of Maine AllCare, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group committed to making health care in Maine universal, accessible and affordable for all. He can be reached at pcpcaper21@gmail.com. http://bangordailynews.com/2012/06/14/health/poorer-nations-push-for-universal-health-coverage-as-u-ssquabbles/…
Single Payer Ahead — Cost Control and the Evolving Vermont Model
…have 14 community hospitals, all with fairly exclusive service territories. Competition for patients is not a major factor in how they do business. Our physicians did not come to the…
More on small businesses and self-insured plans
Implementing Health Reform: Amidst Turbulence, Federal Work Goes On
…that are self-insured escape state regulation, including state mandates, and can be less expensive than commercial insurance for low-risk groups. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), however, increases these incentives dramatically….
Single-payer system would control health care costs
…corporate chains that keep them from starting private businesses. If all Americans had guaranteed coverage for necessary medical care, then the medical delivery systems in our communities would be more…
Single Payer and the Supreme Court
…government “support the conclusion that the commerce power permits Congress to enact any regulation it finds necessary to the viability of a larger scheme regulating interstate commerce.” It would be…
Exchanges are mandated, but single payer the only real solution for Vermont
…based on completely different principles than the exchange. With single payer we will no longer be talking about bronze, silver and platinum plans, but guaranteed health care for all Vermonters…
Calif. single-payer campaign to begin new push
…810, the California Universal Care Act. The bill died when it remained two votes short of passage. Democrats fell short of previous levels of support, which successfully passed similar bills…
New Coalition to Advocate for Universal Health Care in Oregon
'Oregon's current health care system is neither humane nor cost-effective'
Salem-News.com (Ore.), Feb. 4, 2012 PORTLAND, Ore. — Delegates from 28 unions, nonprofits and grassroots organizations gathered in Portland on Friday, January 27, to form a new coalition that will…
Why is Wyden supporting Ryan's Medicare voucher proposal?
A Bipartisan Way Forward on Medicare
…Press release: http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=02334291-9c60-4020-9a8d-e2b9d0f37422 White paper (13 pages): http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/WydenRyan.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Although Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) have released their white paper on a…
How Paul Ryan enslaves Friedrich Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’
The Republican VP nominee claims Hayek as hero. Did he miss the libertarian economist’s advocacy of universal health care?
…hope that staffers from both presidential campaigns will ponder those words. It would actually militate in favor of more universal health care than the Affordable Care Act now provides. http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/12/paul-ryan-enslaves-friedrich-hayek-road-serfdom?cat=commentisfree&type=article…
Small business owners under the Affordable Care Act
How Small Business Owners Get Health Insurance
…own them. http://healthreform.kff.org/en/notes-on-health-insurance-and-reform/2012/september/how-small-business-owners-get-health-insurance.aspx Census tables on firm sizes, receipts and payrolls: http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html Comment: By Don McCanne, MD In both policy and political debates, small business owners have been separated out…
Conversations with … Quentin Young, MD
…to further reactions. YOUNG: Exactly. LUNDBERG: Thank you for being with us. I’m Dr. George Lundberg, at large for MedPage Today. Dr. George Lundberg is editor-at-large at MedPage Today. http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/GeneralProfessionalIssues/35173…