…further that the pharmaceutical industry is not being asked to make “any kind of significant sacrifices” in the current round of reform negotiations. As for a public health care option,…
Consider single-payer
Letter to the editor Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel July 14, 2009 People who believe a public option will make health insurance companies and health maintenance organizations more accountable should look at Medicare’s…
Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried
…industrywide strategies for maintaining their profitable grip on U.S. health care. He told me: “The thing they fear most is a single-payer plan. They fear even the public insurance option…
Say no to status quo, go for single-payer
…owns all the major shareholder-owned BC/BS plans in the country) make a plea for caution as Congress considers reform measures, particularly the public option. “Don’t throw out the baby with…
Will a Public Plan Bring Better Care?
Letters New York Times Published: June 24, 2009 To the Editor: Re “A Public Health Plan” (editorial, June 21): A public plan option that competes with private insurers won’t fix…
Baucus Battered By Voters For Health Care Stand
…Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that would give Americans the option of buying into a publicly run plan that would compete with private insurers. That stance put his staffers up against a…
Gerald Kominski tells us how we can survive Trumpcare
…the details of Trumpcare come into focus, so will the state’s best strategies to close the expected funding gaps. All options need to be considered, and no option should be…
Will businesses drop their health benefit programs?
…single financing pool, equitably-funded through the tax system, while providing significantly greater value in health care purchasing for all of us through a publicly-owned, publicly-administered, beneficent monopsony – an improved…
Docs as Props
…from the public option. The public option will struggle and fail.” Dr. Andy Coates traveled from Albany, New York to meet with Obama today. He too was denied entry. “A…
In Deficit “Town Meetings,” People Reject America Speaks Stacked Deck
…several thousand people in meetings in 60 cities. They gave participants misleading background information about the federal deficit and economic options to achieve fiscal “balance” and future prosperity. But Peterson…
America Speaks Back: The Effort to Gut Social Security and Medicare Takes a Hit
…participants the option of reducing public sector health care costs by reforming the U.S. health care system. As they say at America Speaks, everything is on the table, except reforms…
Departure of health insurers from exchanges demonstrates need for single payer
…the insurance companies and the drug companies. The insurance companies blocked Medicare for all. They blocked the public option. And now Aetna is pulling out of Obamacare basically in retaliation…
