…mad as hell it got to this point. Ross is one of many advocates of a nationally based single-payer health insurance system and is a member of the state council…
Physicians say U.S. needs single-payer national health insurance program
By Roger Brown Bristol Herald Courier, May 10, 2012 BRISTOL, Va. — The United States must move toward adopting a single-payer national health insurance program or continue to risk seeing…
Lewin Group analysis of Sen. Wyden's plan
Cost and Coverage Estimates for the “Healthy Americans Act” Prepared By: John Sheils, Randall Haught, Evelyn Murphy The Lewin Group December 12, 2006 (The Healthy Americans Act is a bill…
The Health Care Monster Returns: Even Republicans acknowledge its ravages, but what's the best way to slay the beast?
…a “single payer” plan)? Proponents of compromises say Medicare for all is a political non-starter. Americans, they argue, are suspicious of government, like choices and often like the private insurance…
Health Care Problem? Check the American Psyche
…outlook seems scary, it doesn’t have to be. There is a solution, proven effective for hundreds of millions of people: single-payer health insurance. Yes, single-payer — that much-maligned idea that…
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Tackles Health Care
…there are another 50 million Americans who are under-insured; that the cost of healthcare has gone out of the reach of a large number of Americans, and so there’s only…
Band-aid Therapy
Problems with Medicare payments to physicians, rising health-care costs, and the increasing number of Americans without insurance show the need for reforms. By Jeff Atkinson Published July/August 2006 The United…
Support swells for universal health care: Ky. panel endorses plan for U.S. system
…Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, that would expand Medicare to cover all Americans. The bill would create a “single-payer” health-care system, publicly financed and privately delivered. All Americans…
Health Care for All in Michigan
…diseases such as polio. African-Americans lead the nation in heart disease, obesity, stroke, diabetes, cancers and kidney disease. African-Americans have a 60 percent greater risk of death or disability from…
Health advocates push for ‘single-payer’ universal health care
…to ensure that all Americans, guaranteed by law, will have access to the highest quality and most-cost-effective health care services regardless of employment, income, or health status. The single-payer health…
Record Level of Americans Not Insured on Health
Record Level of Americans Not Insured on Health By MILT FREUDENHEIM Published: August 27, 2004 Rising costs for health coverage and a continuing fall-off in the number of workers in…
Cure a Sick Healthcare System
…stimulate the malignant growth of healthcare costs. In contrast, a single payer national health insurance (NHI) program could simultaneously cover all of the uninsured, upgrade coverage for most other Americans…
