A Model of Health By Robert Kuttner The American Prospect, November 7, 2011 The New York hotel workers’ plan provides comprehensive coverage at its own health centers, including full dental…
Hijacked—Stolen Health Care Reform: Why Health Care Costs Will Not Be Contained
…for a National Health Program and author of “Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry Is Dying, and How We Must Replace It.” Buy John Geyman’s Books at: http://www.commoncouragepress.com…
Will Health Care Reform 2010 Improve Access And Quality of Cancer Care?
…many lower-income people afford coverage; will eliminate cost-sharing for many preventive services; will provide new funding to increase the capacity of community health centers; will put in place some limited…
Unionized nursing homes have lower COVID-19 mortality rates
Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes
…the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, labor unions advocated for access to PPE and new infection control policies. Study design and data sources We conducted cross-sectional regression analyses to estimate…
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…
The French way of cancer treatment
…my father? How would we call a taxi or communicate with a pharmacy? But my dad got what he wanted, as usual. After just one cycle of chemo in New…
William Greider’s message for us
William Greider, August 6, 1936 - December 25, 2019
…away. The music in democracy starts with people who take themselves seriously. They first discover they have changed themselves, then decide they can change others. https://www.thenation.com… Comment: By Don McCanne,…
Advocates reject privatized coverage
…through insurance companies (see AHIP’s Web site at www.ahipbelieves.com). Then, on Nov. 25, the Star Tribune published an op-ed by the Minnesota Council of Health Plans, which represents Blue Cross…
Let’s get it right: Medicare for All is a huge bargain
Single Payer Is Actually a Huge Bargain
…“new money” needed to fund Sanders’s reform is already being collected as taxes. Yes, there will need to be some new taxes—albeit much less than Blahous estimates. But those new…
Our Healthcare System Is Making My Patients Sicker
Why we need the New York Health Act.
…many more staff dedicated to calling insurance companies about red tape than they have doctors. This is why I am urging our legislators in Albany to pass the New York…
Cancer chemotherapy: Killing them not so softly
…under a well designed single payer national health program. NICE: http://www.nice.org.uk An extra: Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly (Imagine the oncologist “singing my life with his words”) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eOsMc2Fgg…
AFL-CIO reaffirms commitment to single payer, demands fixes to ACA
…a letter this week to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. Camp is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Hatch is top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2013/09/11/afl-cio-steps-up-pressure-for-health-law-changes…