…that it would reduce the role of private health insurance companies in health care, total support increases to 71 percent and 65 percent, respectively. http://www.kff.org… Topline: Precise questions and trends…
The Affordable Health Care For America Act (HR 3962): Enough Reform To Succeed?
…through government subsidies; helping small business to provide coverage to their employees; expanding Medicaid and community health centers; establishing a new Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research to study and recommend…
Support expanding health care for all
…leader among his colleagues and for his constituents. Richmond cannot wait any longer — his constituents’ lives depend on it. The author is a medical student in New Orleans. https://www.theadvocate.com……
URGENT: Steffie Woolhandler’s message on California
…won’t come from the powerful and rich. It won’t come from the medical-industrial complex. As Steffie says, “we’re only going to get single payer if the populace keeps the pressure…
Saving a Global Environment Conducive to Human Life is Job #1
…the most careful and sophisticated studies of public opinion on major issues are carried out by the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication. Though climate is the main focus…
The view of those in the trenches supporting health care for all
…legislation will be effective in slowing the rate of health care cost increases? (Not one hand went up) http://www.healthoc.com/ The Health Care Council of Orange County (California) has a mission…
We do not need "insurance reform" – we need health care!
At The New Republic blog Jonathan Cohn goes out of his way to attack Marcia Angell’s clear and courageous article at the Huffington Post. Mr. Cohn begins with a disclaimer:…
NYT fingers docs, gives for-profit medicine a pass in Katrina debacle
…unfitting commemoration of Katrina and a missed opportunity for investigating a case scenario of how for-profit healthcare works. Laura S. Boylan, MD New York City Link to original article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30doctors.html…
Fiscal Conservatism And Health Care Reform: A Bipartisan No-Brainer?
…Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It, 2008. With permission of the publisher, Common Courage Press. Buy John Geyman’s Books at: http://www.commoncouragepress.com…
The hijacking of health reform
…are struggling to remain solvent. The private for-profit insurance industry diverts roughly $400 billion/year from medical services. In addition, the Senate Commerce Committee recently released a staff report about how…
Misguided fixation on premiums
…If premiums are the benchmark by which reform is judged, “we are setting ourselves up to fail,” Gruber said. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29421.html From the very start, the two most important goals for…
Starr, Reich and Kuttner on the public option
…than Paul Starr’s apt critique suggests. Under the House leadership bill, people who have coverage through their employers are ineligible. So the proposed, head-to-head competition between the public plan and…