Single-Payer News
A Difficult Pill to Swallow
The path to single payer health care through challenging concentrated wealth By Margaret Flowers, M.D. The efforts in recent years to pass health care reform at the state and national levels have provided important lessons for the single payer movement. Corporate control of the political process and media message has proven to be a primary…
Read More54 Arrested as ADAPT Demands Real Medicaid Reform
By Jerry Costley, Utah ADAPT – See video of the action here. The power of ADAPT was on full display today at the as over 300 individuals with disabilities and their associates descended on the White House. We told stories about why Medicaid matters, how devastating any cuts will be to us, how Medicaid can…
Read MoreInvestors with a Conscience Should Divest from Health Insurance Companies
By Rob Stone for Tikkun.org – I was the doctor on duty one night in August when the ambulance rushed a man into our Midwestern hospital ER. As I walked into the room, the scene was right out of TV. A nurse was trying to start an IV. Someone was running an EKG. A student…
Read MoreThe Devilish Detail of Obama’s Speech
By John Nichols for NPR – President Obama has erected what is likely to be the left flank in the debates of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—the so-called “super-committee” that will define so much of this fall’s fiscal and economic discourse. That flank is sturdier than some of the president’s critics on…
Read MoreVt. governor picks panel for single-payer health plan
From Boston.com – MONTPELIER – A health care policy specialist will lead Vermont’s Green Mountain Care board, the panel that will be responsible for implementing the state’s single-payer health care system, Governor Peter Shumlin said yesterday. Advocates for the plan say the single-payer system will help control health care costs and guarantee coverage for Vermonters…
Read MoreNumber of Uninsured Up Another Million
By John Gever for MedPage Today – A record 49.9 million Americans were without health insurance during 2010, up almost 2% from the 49.0 million uninsured in 2009, the Census Bureau reported. The percentage of the population without insurance rose 0.2 percentage points, from 16.1% to 16.3%, though this was not significant at the P
Read MoreMuslim Council of America Opens Free Health Clinic in Braddock, PA
The official opening and dedication of the Braddock Free Health Clinic will take place on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM at the Braddock Municipal Building, 415 Sixth Street, Braddock, PA 15104. Dr. Mohammad Akhtar, president of the Muslim Council of America, which is sponsoring the clinic, will host the event. Dr. Akhtar said,…
Read MoreHealthcare, babies and the national debt: The real cost
By Jonathan D. Walker, M.D. for Frost Illustrated – The term “infant mortality rate” is a measure of the number of babies that die under one year of age per 1,000 live births. It is a useful indicator of how effective a healthcare system is—the lower the number, the fewer babies die. Although there are…
Read MoreJan Cline Holds Yard Sales To Pay Medical Bills; City Shuts Them Down
By the Huffington Post – According to KATU-TV in Salem, Ore., Jan Cline, a woman with terminal bone marrow cancer, has been holding yard sales to raise money to pay off her bills. But Cline recently received an unfortunate notice from the city of Salem: She is breaking the law, and the city is shutting…
Read MoreActivists call for trauma care from the University of Chicago Medical Center
By Gabriel Spitzer for WBEZ.org – The group Fearless Leading by Youth slept on concrete last night in front of the University of Chicago Medical Center. They want more emergency care for the most seriously injured patients – a business the hospital got out of 23 years ago. The demonstration comes one year after the…
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