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- What the Health Care Reform Plans Get Wrong
- An American Enterprise Institute economist gives his recommendations for how health care reform should be pursued -- and explains why he's skeptical of President Obama's claims that if you like your current health insurance plan, you'll be able to keep it. Miller...
- Articles 2009-08-17
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- California passes single-payer system.
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until Sept. 30 to decide whether to veto legislation passed Thursday that would eliminate all public and private health insurance in the state and replace it with a single-payer system. Although the governor California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until Sept....
- Research articles 2006-09-04
- Five Dems in Iowa Agree: 'No' to Single Payer System; Kucinich Takes Them All On
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: National HQ, Andy Juniewicz, +1-216-409-8992, ajuniewicz@aol.com, Washington, D.C., Sharon Manitta, +1-202-506- 6683, Sharon.manitta@kucinich.us, +1-877-41-DENNIS, or +1-877-413- 3664, all of Kucinich for President 2008 DAVENPORT, Iowa, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a debate sponsored by one of the nation's leading private insurance sales organizations, AARP, five Democratic presidential...
- Research articles 2007-09-21
- Calif. single-payer plan gets Consumers Union OK.
- The California Health Security Act, an initiative on the Nov 1994 state ballot that would implement a single-payer health care system in California if passed, has been strongly endorsed by the Consumers Union. Other public interest groups that support theThe California Health Security Act, an initiative on the Nov 1994...
- Research articles 1994-07-04
- The left wing of the Democratic party still holds up Canada's "single payer"—that is, entirely government-financed—health-care system as a model
- The left wing of the Democratic party still holds up Canada's "single payer"--that is, entirely government-financed--health-care system as a model. The latest innovation of that system: Overextended doctors are deciding which patients will get treated by drawing names out of a hat. They are rationing health care, in other words,...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Insurers Expand Primary Care: an Argument for Obama's Plan
- Imagine appointments with your primary care doctor that last 30 minutes—or longer. What if you could e-mail her when you need a prescription refill? If you have a two-minute question, she encourages you to call; she or a nurse practitioner will come to the phone. If they're busy, they'll return...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Health Care Is All About The Cost
- The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have set themselves a goal of reforming the U.S. medical system. There are various bills under development in both the House and Senate. The key arguments revolve around how many people will be covered and at what cost. The other...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Public Option Waffling Enrages Left Wing
- Now that the Obama Administration has signaled its willingness to back off from a “public option†and accept nonprofit cooperatives in its place, the left wing of the Democratic party is going ballistic. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean has said reform is dead without the public option, and Ariana Huffington...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Letters.(Letter to the editor)
- Single-payer system offers health care fix * I appreciated Crain's publishing Sister Judith Ann Karam's May 21 Personal View in support of the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP, and a subsequent June 4 letter from Single-payer system offers...
- Research articles 2007-06-25
- Looking for plan B - health care reform alternatives - National Review Second Opinions: Health-Care Supplement - Cover Story
- AS WASHINGTON anxiously awaits the latest weekly change in the Clinton health-care proposal, the sea of counterproposals grows steadily larger. Left, right, and center--nearly everyone with a word-processor has a plan to restructure the American health-care system. On the left (a bit further to...
- Research articles 1993-12-13
- Kennedy, Baucus Have Differences on Reform Plan
- The battle lines on health care reform are being drawn, not between Republicans who have no real power and Democrats, but between Democrats like Sen. Max Baucus who favor a public plan with a small “p,†or would even kick that can down the road, and those like Sen. Kennedy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-30
- Op-Ed: Our Misplaced Faith in High-Tech Medicine
- By MERRILL GOOZNER The following essay appeared on the website of the Hastings Center, which is running a colloquium on the values behind health care reform. "One could make a good case that improvements in education and job creation could be a better use of limited funds than better medical care." -...
- News items 2009-10-12
- There Is No Perfect Health System
- Extensive research into quality of care in different countries yields no conclusive findings that one system is better or worse than others. Quality does not necessarily vary with financing mechanisms; even countries with single-payer systems have variations in quality. Quality is not directly related to the amount spent on health...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Single-payer: good for business: evidence shows that countries with national healthcare are more competitive.
- Business leaders complain endlessly that the current system of private healthcare insurance based on employment provides fewer and fewer people with less and less quality care at higher and higher cost. Yet Corporate America turns its back on a publicly financed system, which, by all indicators,...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
- Lobbyists want to limit federal intervention in health care
- Interest groups and their lobbyists are hard at work in Washington. Most want to prevent Congress from adopting a single-payer system. Lobbyists have been blamed for slowing the health care reform movement by stalling every proposal in the halls of Congress. But they also have helped keep government...
- Research articles 1992-09-15
- Physicians' Working Group on Single-Payer National Health Insurance
- Health care reform is again near the top of the political agenda. Health care costs have turned sharply upward. The number of Americans without insurance or with inadequate coverage rose even in the boom years of the 1990s. Medicare and Medicaid are threatened by ill-conceived reform schemes. And middle class...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Twenty Myths About Single-Payer Health Insurance: International Evidence on the Effects of National Health Insurance in Countries Around the World
- The authors' survey of national health insurance in countries around the world provides convincing evidence that government control of health care usually makes citizens worse off. When health care is made free at the point of consumption, rationing by waiting is inevitable. Government control of the health care system makes...
- White papers 2002-07-11
- Paying for paperwork.(FYI)(Brief Article)
- Twenty-one percent of healthcare spending in California goes to process insurance claims and another 13 percent goes for administrative costs, according to University of California, San Francisco professor James Kahn. In contrast, the state would save up to $21 billion each year if it adopted a...
- Research articles 2005-11-18
- S&P Maintains Negative Outlook on Health Insurance
- Standard & Poor’s is maintaining its negative outlook on the health insurance industry, according to an article by two S&P analysts in Business Week. The two main reasons are the continuing deterioration of the economy, which is increasing unemployment and the associated loss of insurance, and the uncertainties engendered by...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- ACP issues call for mandated universal coverage: American College of Physicians hopes to bring health care reform to the forefront of the 2008 elections
- The American College of Physicians has for the first time called for legally mandated universal coverage for all U.S. residents and has urged lawmakers to consider a single-payer system as one option for achieving that goal. In a lengthy analysis and health care reform proposal, the ACP also recommends...
- Research articles 2007-12-15
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