…in which single payer would strengthen the general economy. Indeed, the thriving economy of Taiwan adopted single payer in the 1990s. We saw single payer support from a conservative acquaintance,…
Why County Administrators Should Advocate for Single-Payer Health Care
…the single payer organization, Healthcare-NOW (http://www.healthcare-now.org). HCAN is attackedby single payer supporters such as Miles Mogulescu at, for example, www.huffingtonpost.com/milesmogulescu/why-not-single-payer-part_b_111718.html; HCAN’s director Richard Kirsch defends his shift away from single…
What a single-payer health insurance plan looks like
…University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Friedman recently prepared an economic impact study of how a single-payer system would affect the state of Maryland, a link to which you will find here. You…
The Public Option Con
Selling Out Single-Payer
…the insurance industry is going to fight just as hard against a public option as it will single-payer so let’s have a smackdown for single-payer. We argued the passage of…
Physicians’ Proposal
Beyond the Affordable Care Act: A Physiciansā Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform
…my institution wishes to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform. I am unable to endorse the Physicians’ Proposal for Single-Payer Health Care Reform at this time but…
“American Values” — A Smoke Screen in the Debate on Health Care Reform
…a trump card designed to preserve the current patchwork of private and public insurance and to stop discussion of a government-sponsored single-payer system in its tracks: the claim that single-payer…
Hillary Clinton resurrects public option, or not?
…single payer to “prove” that the government would be incapable of running a single payer system – an obvious non sequitur. Since the enactment of ACA there have been endless…
"American Values" — A Smoke Screen in the Debate on Health Care Reform
…a trump card designed to preserve the current patchwork of private and public insurance and to stop discussion of a government-sponsored single-payer system in its tracks: the claim that single-payer…
The Doctors' Revolt
…AMA members favored single-payer reform in 1992, the figure had soared to 42 percent by 2004. Single-payer proved more popular than more modest measures like public programs to cover the…
State and national single-payer news, plus how to strengthen Medicare
…of health reform for the Green Mountain State, including a single-payer model. Our Dr. Deb Richter says Hsiao’s appointment increases the probability that the single-payer model will get a fair…
Baucus closes door on single-payer in national health care debate
…with rather than some major change that would disrupt Americans in a way that most Americans don’t want to be disrupted,” Baucus said. Some conservative critics of single-payer say it…
Taiwan: Surprising Lessons From a Small Island
…policy community, and the role U.S. academics played in Taiwan’s adoption in 1995 of single-payer health care. The academics’ enthusiasm for the single-payer approach endures more than a dozen years…
