…does single payer fit in this? For the past few years, single payer was largely considered irrelevant and not included in most discussions. Earlier, the “public option” – a public…
Media’s “false equivalency” and single payer
…the “public option” – a public insurance program to be offered as an option in the insurance exchanges – was considered to represent the position of the left. Some of…
Media's "false equivalency" and single payer
False-Equivalence Watch: The Platonic-Ideal Form
…the views of the left, and opposition to the option representing the views of the right. In truth, most in the progressive community had latched onto the public option, and…
Sen. Schumer kills reform
Schumer Offers Middle Ground on Health Care
…in Congress hope to shift the debate from the question of whether to create a public health insurance plan to the question of how it would work. “The public plan,”…
Sen. Schumer kills reform
…manage a public plan should be different from those who regulate the insurance market. In addition, Mr. Schumer said, the public plan should be required to establish a reserve fund,…
Healthcare Summit Ends in Deadlock; Single-Payer Advocates Excluded
…public option. HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: Mr. President, I hearken back to that meeting a year ago. At that time, Senator Grassley said to—questioned you about the public option,…
The Public Option Con
Selling Out Single-Payer
…breathing. HCAN and liberal Democrats have to engage in this “magical thinking” in order to convince a skeptical public that a public option embedded in a for-profit system can work….
Labor Bargains for Too Little on Health Care, Gets Even Less
…the other hand, said the public option was not a deal-breaker.) But the wrangling wore on and the House version of a public option was whittled down to 6 million…
Projected costs of single payer in the United States
Projected costs of single-payer healthcare financing in the United States: A systematic review of economic analyses
…included studies. We surveyed an expert panel and searched PubMed, Google, Google Scholar, and preexisting lists for formal economic studies of the projected costs of single-payer plans for the US…
Should a single payer system include complementary and alternative therapies?
Studying Complementary and Alternative Therapies
…motto: “The world is made up of two kinds of people – dem that takes and dem that gets took.” http://books.google.com/books?id=Pk8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA125&dq=Harry+Hoxsey&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Harry%20Hoxsey&f=false Comment: By Don McCanne, MD Complementary and alternative medicine…
Hospitals abusing electronic patient data
Hospitals criticized over offers to earn or save money by sharing electronic patient data
…it into a Google search box. The first item that comes up in the Google search is likely a selection that lists the same title, with a WSJ link. Click…
Contacting the Media
…information for your local media. Most of the time, a Google search will find you the best way to contact the outlet in question. For newspapers, Google the name of…
