…and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services.” Participatory public discussion — the “government by discussion” expounded by democratic theorists like John…
In Dire Health
By Arnold Relman The American Prospect, Jan. 13, 2012 Most people assume that insurance is an essential part of the health-care system. Some think it should be provided through public…
Universal publicly funded health care: Establishing accountability without competition
…health insurance does not provide accountability to quality health care anyhow.) Establishing accountability in publicly funded health care The legislative branch must define the broad structure of publicly funded health…
Dr. Jacqueline Davis on the fight to save Britainās NHS
The Fight to Save Britainās NHS: Luncheon address by Jacqueline Davis, M.D.
…politicians for ideological reasons, and the private sector for financial reasons, have had the NHS – traditionally publicly funded, publicly delivered and publicly accountable – in their sights for some…
Vermont attorney generalās office must reconsider Leddy decision
…a public way to the original complaint because the complaint itself was widely publicized. Your messages repeat concerns raised in the prior complaint and add to them by citing other…
Healthcare Lifeboats
…city shut its doors; LA’s surviving public hospitals and clinics face a $750 million shortfall. In Detroit (which, along with Philadelphia has already lost its only public hospital) private ones…
Unions Back Plan that Could Kill Off Real Health Care Reform
…public program instead. This would in turn drive the public program’s premiums up and the private premiums down. Eventually the public program would be driven out of the market. WINDOW…
The Health Care Monster Returns: Even Republicans acknowledge its ravages, but what's the best way to slay the beast?
…private plans and a public plan. Along the same lines, but with a simpler design and more robust public component, Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker proposes that everyone not in…
Privatisation will wreck NHS, say campaigners
…losers, with some units and even entire hospitals having to close … The NHS must be kept in public hands … We call on organisations, healthcare workers, patients and public…
Bigger and Better
…the big-ticket areas of U.S. social policy isn’t public versus private services. It’s public versus private insurance. Medicare buys essentially all its services from the private sector, and no one…
L.A.'s critical condition
…care options shrink, the struggle in Los Angeles hospitals could be the future for health care throughout California. In Los Angeles, the traditional emergency-room patient — the heart attack victim,…
Achieving Universal Health Care: Lessons from Other Countries, and Our Own
…plans designed to reduce the number of uninsured in California. The final report of the Health Care Options Project (available at www.healthcareoptions.ca.gov) confirms that (i) a single-payer, publicly-financed plan can…
