…an American immigrant (and now dual national). But I don’t recall reading very much about how public-option universal health care systems like Australia’s actually work, from the perspective of someone…
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…
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…
NHS privatization – lessons for the U.S.
…public and private insurance system into a single public program, we are going in the opposite direction. Our public Medicare program is being privatized through similar cognitive processes as are…
Lessons from Kaiser poll on single payer
…public about broad options for changing the health system that are currently being discussed and finds more Americans (36 percent) say policymakers should build on the existing law to improve…
Is “keeping the insurance you have” your choice?
…employees. http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080205/NEWS/802050310/0/NEWS01 And… Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission (California) Funding Pensions and Retiree Health Care for Public Employees On December 28, 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger established the Public Employee Post-Employment…
KFF poll on health reform
The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress Kaiser Family Foundation January 15, 2009 The public ranks action on health care highly as part of efforts to…
NHS privatization – lessons for the U.S.
…need to be converting our fragmented public and private insurance system into a single public program, we are going in the opposite direction. Our public Medicare program is being privatized…
Immigrants help pay for our health care
Immigrants Pay More In Private Insurance Premiums Than They Receive In Benefits
…Trump administration is considering a proposed rule that would greatly expand the guidelines for “public charge” – immigrants who use government services. If they are deemed a public charge, the…
Doran: A health care bubble about to burst
…like this: Our health care is an admixture of a market-model (health care stores for individual buyers with enough money) and a public good (health care services financially supported by…
Policy preferences of wealthy Americans
Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans
…of the general public. We suggest that these distinctive policy preferences may help account for why certain public policies in the United States appear to deviate from what the majority…
Lessons from Kaiser poll on single payer
…public about broad options for changing the health system that are currently being discussed and finds more Americans (36 percent) say policymakers should build on the existing law to improve…
