…part for the continuing decrease in physician charity care. http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/826/ Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. Grocery stores do not provide free food for those unable to pay. Landlords do not…
Reason's Matt Welch on French health care
Why I Prefer French Health Care
…and more on waiting times in the USA? It’s a question I plan to ask my doctor this Christmas. In French. (Matt Welch is Reason’s editor in chief.) http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/07/why-prefer-french-health-care Comment:…
Activists See CAFTA as Gift to Big Pharma
…required to develop new, life-saving medications. To them, generic producers are essentially free-loading copy-cats who can charge lower prices because they do not bear the huge research and development costs….
PNHP Members Urge Gov. Romney on Single-Payer
…and comprehensive coverage at an affordable price. The people of the Commonwealth deserve no less. Sincerely, [This letter was signed by nearly 300 Massachusetts doctors.] Fact Sheet on the Uninsured…
Canada’s vacillating solidarity
…out. Then they came to take the rights of the ill. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040820/COSALU20/TPHealth/ Comment: Whether in the United States or Canada, is it solidarity that is vacillating? Or is it merely…
About single-payer insurance
by Michele Swenson Colorado Springs Independent – Colorado Springs,CO,USA September 27, 2007 Perhaps the greatest conceit of health-care reform debates is the notion that free-market competition among private insurance companies…
The dark side of healthcare reform
…for the worse this month with the Patrick administration’s proposal to limit the state’s Free Care Pool. The Free Care Pool exists to catch those who fall through the cracks…
Canada's vacillating solidarity
…out. Then they came to take the rights of the ill. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040820/COSALU20/TPHealth/ Comment: Whether in the United States or Canada, is it solidarity that is vacillating? Or is it merely…
Americans deluded by free-market rhetoric?
…that they are less socialist and more “independent” than their European cousins. http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1051390299862 Comment: This is yet more evidence that the free market in health care simply does not exist….
The Battle Over Health Care
…2008, when it comes to health care, which is emerging as a defining domestic issue, voters will find stark differences in philosophy and commitment between Democrats and Republicans. The three…
Gawande’s pseudo-pragmatism
…to get there that start from where we are. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_gawande Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Atul Gawande is a highly respected physician who has a well deserved reputation as a…
Is the federal employees health program anti-competitive?
OPM seeks more competition for employee health plans
…and/or quality, and those are the only things that matter.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/opm-seeks-more-competition-for-employee-health-plans/2012/08/06/ea6c242e-dffc-11e1-a421-8bf0f0e5aa11_story.html OPM paper: http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/08/06/National-Politics/Graphics/FEHBOPMcompplan.pdf BlueCross BlueShield Association perspective: http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/08/06/National-Politics/Graphics/FEHBBlueppo.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Many in the policy community have…
