…world’s largest biotechnology companies. E-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that the lobbyists drafted one statement for Democrats and another for Republicans. The lobbyists, employed by Genentech…
Brooklynites cheer single-payer health care at congressional town hall
Democrats in Congress are working to protect the ACA, but some New Yorkers aren’t giving up on universal health care By Caroline Lewis Crain’s New York Business, Feb. 23, 2017…
Opinions of New Hampshire Physicians Contrast with Presidential Candidate Plans for Healthcare Reform
…Sobelson, 228-0071, gsobelson@comcast.net Dr. Beth Smith, 229-5200, Elizabeth.r.smith@hitchcock.org Palmer Jones, Executive Vice President, NHMS, 224-1909, Palmer.Jones@nhms.org A recent survey of New Hampshire physicians regarding the United States healthcare system suggests…
Time For A New Debate On Health Care
…and I appreciate their newness — I appreciate their desire to keep a commitment to constituents — but when you come to the Congress, you have to govern, you have…
Universal health care would solve crisis of uninsured
…the one proposed by the New York Health Act, would reduce New York’s health care spending by 25 percent, more than $70 billion, by 2016. The savings would come from…
Speaker to allow vote on universal health care bill
…passed the Assembly in 1992 but has died in either the Health Committee or the Ways and Means Committee every year since then. The Senate version of the bill, with…
Could this be the year for single-payer health care?
…do better.” The New York Health Act would replace all private insurance coverage with comprehensive, universal coverage for every New Yorker, he explained. “It would save the billions of dollars…
Bills calls for 'Medicare for all'
Assemblyman Gottfried urges single-payer health care system for state
…in the hands of insurance companies,” Gottfried said. “New York can do better.” The New York Health Act would replace all private insurance coverage with comprehensive, universal coverage for every…
My Kind of Medicine: Real Lives of Practicing Internists: Andy Coates, MD
…Spain. In between he does commentaries on his local public radio station, tends a blog, and leads a statewide grassroots coalition, Single Payer New York. He views the effort for…
A Doctor's Push for Single-Payer Health Care for All Finds Traction in Vermont
…it, possibly through a new payroll tax. Whether he will still be in charge by 2017 is among the complicating factors. “If we had the exact same Legislature and the…
More nurses, less death
…in Pennsylvania that would either set minimum ratios or require hospitals to establish committees that would develop a “safe staffing plan” for nurses. New Jersey last year began requiring hospitals…
Vt. student rally a huge success, activism up nationwide
…until 2017, as is currently required by law. The president’s concession comes as the current federal health law is deteriorating and states are complaining that the financial burden of complying…