…founding ideals of a public service, publicly funded, free at the point of use – the basic principle of dignity. “When you fall ill, you should never have to worry…
Health care legislation being shaped in secrecy
…could be public reaction, but the public can’t react to a bill unless it gets a good look at it.” Polls do show that the public is reacting favorably to…
The lesson of a decade of health information technology mismanagement
…been developed in the public (government!) sector. Many other nations with universal health care systems have also introduced integrated IT systems primarily through the public sector. What has the magic…
The New York Times doesn't get it
…take the bold step of providing a truly effective universal public insurance program, such as an improved Medicare for everyone, or to take what some believe to be the politically…
The Case for A Non-Profit Single-Payer Healthcare System
…The object of patents is to encourage research and innovation in order to benefit the public. The public is certainly does NOT benefited from extortionist level prices and profits. A…
Spend money on universal care not costly exchange
…health care, specifically a public single-payer health system that would assure all of us who need care can access it. The complexity of implementing and understanding the reforms required under…
Decoding the language of health-care financing: a primer
…individual. Public health insurance. Public insurance also comes in two main flavors: Medicare and Medicaid. Both are ways to pay for coverage — they are not government-run health care, they…
Health Reform: Necessary, but will the Affordable Care Act be sufficient?
…(e.g. Great Britain, Sweden) is true socialized medicine where the doctors, nurses and other providers are public employees and the hospitals are publicly owned. A national health insurance with many…
Study reveals austerityās harmful impact on health in Greece
…its kind, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers have vividly chronicled the harmful public health impacts of the economic austerity measures imposed on Greece’s population in the wake of…
Howard Waitzkin on commodification and the search for a universal health program
The Commodification of Health Care and the Search for a Universal Health Program in the United States
…Section’s 2012 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award for his new book, “Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire,” from which this blog post draws. http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2012/10/the_commodification.html Comment: By Don…
The Commodification of Health Care and the Search for a Universal Health Program in the United States
…Medical Sociology Section’s 2012 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award for his new book, “Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire,” from which the following blog post draws. http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2012/10/the_commodification.html…
Medicine and Empire: Book Review
…dollars into managed-care firms). But in other countries, popular movements have mounted successful resistance to the efforts to wrest health care from public or quasi-public control. Waitzkin details the hard-fought…
