…out, but the Dutch appear most satisfied with their system and Americans the least satisfied, according to a new survey of 10 industrialized countries. The Dutch system was most popular…
Paying More, Getting Less
How much is the sick U.S. health care system costing you?
…payer for each province to set fees, and doctors and hospitals need only bill that one payer. Of course, the United States already has a universal, single-payer health care program:…
Our Health Care System at the Crossroads: Single Payer or Market Reform?
…other accounts. The tax breaks for HSAs selectively reward the wealthiest Americans. A single mother who makes $16,000 annually would save $19.60 in income taxes by putting $2000 into an…
Medicare For All via H.R. 676
…literally killing Americans in huge numbers. The number of Americans without health insurance is currently 47 million and growing rapidly. The number of underinsured Americans is much larger than the…
World's Best Medical Care?
…many Americans hold surprisingly negative views of their health care system. Polls in Europe and North America seven to nine years ago found that only 40 percent of Americans were…
UAW's Gettelfinger Again Calls for Single Payer Health Care
…tests, and other preventive care. The situation is nearly as bad among underinsured Americans. Treatments get delayed A recent survey by the Reader’s Digest found that among underinsured middle-class Americans…
For Americans, Getting Sick Has Its Price
…and Americans and Canadians were the most likely to report problems seeing a doctor the same day they sought one. Americans were also much more likely to report forgoing needed…
The Moral-Hazard Myth (New Yorker)
…to as many kinds of people as they could find, collecting stories of untreated depression and struggling single mothers and chronically injured laborers—and the most common complaint they heard was…
Headaches For All
…the only workable solution is to replace the private-sector insurance companies with a government-run “single-payer” system, as in Canada. This, however, would guarantee the same lobbying that defeated Mr Clinton–which…
Is it time to nationalize hospitals?
It may be time to nationalise US hospitals
…national strategy for hospitals. While Senator Bernie Sanders based his vision of “Medicare for All” on the Canadian system, where private hospitals contract with a government “single payer”, the UK…
BMJ: Failing health of the United States
The role of challenging life conditions and the policies behind them
…been unfolding for decades. In 1960, Americans had the highest life expectancy, 2.4 years higher than the average for countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But…
Health Care Can Be Cured: Here's How (TIME Magazine)
…legislative process because of fierce opposition by the health-care industry. To discredit the single-payer idea, insurers, HMOs, for-profit hospitals and other private interests play on Americans’ long-standing fears of Big…
