…health and health services,” the authors wrote. “On the other hand, sustained public spending or creative reorganization and expansion of public sector health services can protect populations’ health status.” http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/deteriorating-public-health-polices-what-greece-us-may-have-in-common.html…
Wealth & Health: Public Taxes, Private Dollars
…member and past president of the American Public Health Association told a San Francisco public forum on October 29, “We know what works, all we have to do is pay…
Harry and Louise on John Edwards' plan
…between Public and Private Insurers: Health Markets will offer a choice between private insurers and a public insurance plan modeled after Medicare, but separate and apart from it. Families and…
Waiting For The Health Reform We Really Need
…helps people understand why the current plan to expand coverage by mandating coverage so that everyone has to buy an insurance policy, without creating a vigorous public option to lower…
U.S. Census Bureau data on the medically uninsured simply can't be denied
The report, which says 46.3 million people lacked coverage as of the end of 2008, makes the case for reform stronger than ever by punching holes in arguments that minimize the plight of the uninsured.
…agitating against the public option in healthcare reform. In other words, they’re saying that up to 14 million Americans wouldn’t be uninsured if they just took advantage of, um, a…
Dr. Sidney Wolfe's Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce at Hearing on Health Insurance
June 24, 2009 Testimony of Sidney M. Wolfe MD Acting President, Public Citizen and Director, Health Research Group at Public Citizen Before the Subcommittee on Health House Committee on Energy…
Health Coalition attacks American TV ad in open letter to Barack Obama:
"Listen to Canadians, not Brian Day and his for-profit friends"
…stand together to strengthen public health care across the border and to protect the right to public health care from financially motivated doctors and insurance companies.” “It remains shocking to…
Kentuckians hold Citizens' Hearing on Health Care Crisis
…coping with the increasing costs of premiums and/or medication, and those burdened by medical debt-the testifiers told their stories, hoping to move both the public and public officials to take…
Goodbye, Europe. Hello, USA.
…publicly funded system if they want to offer services covered by the public system on a for- profit basis. As the bulk of the work is in the publicly funded…
Privatizing Social Security: 'Me' Over 'We'
…privatization — whether of education, housing or Social Security — makes us less of a public. It diminishes the republic — the res publica, or public things that define our…
Do Bush and Kerry Offer a Cure?
…poverty. These expansions would put the United States nearer to universal insurance coverage. The Kerry plan does not require that they take place through public insurance, however, even though public…
Richard Gottfried on private and public coverage decisions
…anyone would ask whether CTC is covered. Since someone is going to make choices about what gets covered, we’re all better off if it is done by publicly-sponsored, publicly-funded and…
