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These articles highlight many of the health care related stories in the news–ranging from single-payer op-eds by PNHP members to reports by newspapers on corporate health care.
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Posted on Friday, May 17, 2013By Chuck Thompson | PhillyBurbs.com
Nearly two years ago, I turned 65 and signed up for Medicare. I was actually dreading this move as one often fears change, particularly when it relates to health care plans. For nearly 16 years, my wife and I operated our own consulting company and paid in excess of $14,000 a year in health care premiums. -
Posted on Friday, May 17, 2013By Dr. Philip Caper | Bangor Daily News
You know another storm is brewing when Washington politicians start looking for somebody else to blame for problems they themselves created. -
Posted on Wednesday, May 15, 2013By J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D. | Psychology Today
My colleagues and I recently tabulated how long psychiatric patients who were deemed in need of inpatient admission -- overwhelmingly because of suicidal thoughts or plans -- stayed in the emergency department prior to being hospitalized, as well as the amount of time that the emergency department psychiatrists spent obtaining authorization from the patient’s insurer. -
Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P. | WAMC Northeast Public Radio
In two recent essays Dr. Arthur Kleinman, the eminent Harvard anthropologist and psychiatrist, writes in the world's leading medical journals about caregiving as a moral experience. -
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013By Marc H. Lavietes, M.D. | The New York Times
Ross Douthat’s statement that liberals “remain wedded to the dream of a health care bureaucracy that pays” is disingenuous. Obamacare will provide greater access to health care but will neither diminish health care costs nor provide universal care. Progressive physicians favor a single-payer health plan serving as an insurance fund, leaving physicians free to organize their own practices and patients free to choose their physicians. -
Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2013PNHP note: The following text consists of two parts: (1) a news release from the Society of General Internal Medicine, and (2) the remarks of Dr. Oliver Fein, past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, upon receiving the award.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2013By Gerald Friedman | All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care--HR 676
America’s health care system is collapsing, and we can blame the economics profession. -
Posted on Monday, May 6, 2013By Donna Smith | CommonDreams
In recent days, many of us have read and tried to follow the reports that Congressional offices are engaged in discussions about how to make sure their health insurance coverage available under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) remains affordable for Congresspersons and their staff members. If you’d like to read more about the hullabaloo, this piece from the Washington Post probably explains it as clearly as any. -
Posted on Friday, May 3, 2013By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P. | WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Last week I had the privilege to visit West Virginia. I’ve been there before. My first impressions, made years ago, returned. If our everyday consciousness results from our everyday experience, it must be intense to live in West Virginia. There the phrase “king coal” leapt to mind at every turn. -
Posted on Friday, May 3, 2013By Leonard A. Zwelling, M.D. | The Wall Street Journal
There could be no better argument for some sort of universal health-care system than Dr. Kessler’s op-ed ("The coming Obamacare shock," April 30). The current system of health-care delivery, even if or after ObamaCare is fully implemented, denies access to millions, remains highly variable in quality and still costs too much because it is driven by the vast profits of mostly nonproviders within the health-care industrial complex. -
Posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2013Mississippi Public Broadcasting Radio
PNHP note: The following is an unofficial transcript of an interview that took place in the studios of Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson, Miss., on April 19. -
Posted on Friday, April 26, 2013By Sarah Kliff | Washington Post
There’s pretty widespread agreement, on both sides of the aisle, that the health-care law will expand insurance coverage. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that 30 million more Americans will have health insurance by the end of a decade. -
Posted on Friday, April 26, 2013By Andrew D. Coates, M.D. | WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Many years back during my residency training, on my first overnight as the senior admitting resident, I got a call from an emergency physician at a tiny rural hospital. Her patient had pulmonary emboli -- blood clots to arteries of the lungs. She proposed to transfer the patient to our hospital, where closer monitoring would be available. -
Posted on Friday, April 26, 2013By Lori Kersey | The Charleston Gazette
DAWES, W.Va. -- The Affordable Care Act is an experiment that will fail, the head of an organization that advocates for a single-payer health system argued Thursday. -
Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013By the Editorial Board. | The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette
If you think health care should be available to all Americans as a human right, you may be interested in a free public forum tonight at the University of Charleston. -
Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013By David May, M.D. | American College of Cardiology Touch Blog
I am a Republican. For those who know me that is not a surprise. I live in a red state. I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. I can field strip, clean and reassemble a Remington 12-gauge pump blindfolded. And on top of it, I think we should talk about having a single payer national health care plan. The reason is quite simple. In my view, we already have one; we just don’t take advantage of it. -
Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013By James Binder, M.D. | The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette
Every human being has a right to competent health care. Claiming health care to be a basic human right is a principle derived from 2,000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition (as well as core values of all major world religions). -
Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013By Jere Downs | USA Today
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A New York-based nonprofit says it has bought up more than $1 million in medical debts owed by more than 1,000 people in the Louisville area, as part of a protest of the credit industry. -
Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013By HealthDay News | U.S. News and World Report
U.S. psychiatrists spend a total of 1 million hours on the phone each year getting insurance companies to approve hospitalization for patients with severe mental illnesses, a new study reports. -
Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013By Mary MacVean | Los Angeles Times
Psychiatrists spent an estimated 1 million hours on the phone getting insurance authorizations to admit people to hospitals – time the lead author of a study on the matter says could be better spent helping patients.