Healthcare-NOW

Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk

Michele Swenson, of HuffingtonPost.com, writes: The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers. It’s called gaming the system for profit – whether it’s Wall Street investments in dubious credit instruments for massive short-term…

Single-Payer Minute #2

This week, Donna heads off to San Francisco for the large single-payer march over the Golden Gate Bridge. Find out more about the Single-Payer Minute on www.americanpatientsunited.org.

PBS Airs ‘Critical Condition’

A moving and timely documentary called Critical Condition was recently premiered on PBS. It documents four different accounts of people who are sick and uninsured in America. The film will serve as a powerful tool to engage our coalitions and communities in the work for single-payer healthcare reform. Watch the full film on PBS’s website.…

Single-Payer Minute #1

American Patients United.org and Guaranteed Health Care.org are launching this weekly news series on the growing movement to reform our health care system. This first video episode, “A Bridge to Nowhere” captures the scandalous current state health care in America- it’s a wasteful enterprise that benefits a tiny few while millions of others go without.…

Paying More, Getting Less

Dollars and Sense recently published an article titled “Paying More, Getting Less” about America’s healthcare crisis. According to the article: By any measure, the United States spends an enormous amount of money on health care. Here are a few of those measures. In 2006, U.S. health care spending exceeded 16% of the nation’s GDP. To…

Just who are the uninsured in Minnesota?

MinnPost.com published an interesting article on healthcare policy titled “Just who are the uninsured in Minnesota?”

Medicare Privatization

This Editorial was published May 21, 2008 in the New York Times. The Bush administration has proposed welcome new regulations to curb the deceptive, hard-sell tactics often used to foist private Medicare policies on unwary consumers. Unfortunately, it has been unwilling to eliminate the root cause of the problem: the high subsidies that prop up…