http://www.pnhp.org/news/ en Copyright 2009 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:03:40 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Testimony of Sidney M. Wolfe MD
What if you picked up the morning paper tomorrow and saw the following headline: "50 People Died Yesterday Because they Lacked Health Insurance"? The next day, the same headline--and the next as well. This is the average number of people in the United States who, according to a 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, die each day--more than 18,000 a year--because they lack health insurance. How should we respond to this unacceptable and embarrassing finding?]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/dr_sidney_wolfes_t.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/dr_sidney_wolfes_t.php Articles of Interest Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:03:40 -0600 By Marcy Winograd | L.A. Progressive
One of the many frustrations for advocates of single-payer health care is the relentless drive to marginalize us, not only by conservatives but also by members of our own party.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/singlepayers_crashi.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/singlepayers_crashi.php Articles of Interest Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:11:29 -0600 Everywhere you turn those rejecting single payer, including President Obama, say that we want to build on what works and fix what's broken. They say that what works is our employer-sponsored system of coverage. But does it? http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/nhis_numbers_and_bu.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/nhis_numbers_and_bu.php Quote of the Day Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:06:01 -0600 By Doug Trapp | AMNews
Nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies in early 2007 were due in part to medical debt -- an increase of more than 20% since 2001 -- according to a national study of more than 2,000 cases.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/medical_debt_increas.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/medical_debt_increas.php Articles of Interest Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:01:49 -0600 BY COLLEEN LAMAY | Idaho Statesman
In the movies and in country music, spunky people dying of cancer take exotic vacations, jump out of airplanes, spend quality time with people they love - all the things they never had time to do before their diagnoses. The reality is very different for growing numbers of middle-class families who lack health insurance or have skimpy coverage.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/middle_class_battles.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/middle_class_battles.php Articles of Interest Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:56:18 -0600 The Associated Press
The head of the Montana Democratic Party, also a candidate for Congress, is coming out in favor of universal health coverage.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/democratic_party_cha.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/democratic_party_cha.php Articles of Interest Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:16:32 -0600 Rally and Lobby Day: Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | Washington, DC
Celebrate Medicare's 44th Birthday by showing Congress and President Obama that unions, doctors, nurses, seniors, faith groups, and Americans of every stripe support national, single-payer healthcare.
Click here to download the flyer for this event]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/medicare_made_in_am.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/medicare_made_in_am.php Action Alerts Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:19:00 -0600 "So I think Congress is realizing that it's gonna be trouble if they try to roll us," and "I'm sorry that things have gotten to the point where we're having to beat up on members of Congress." Was this guy nurtured on "The Sopranos," or is he the real thing? Regardless, are the owners of America's businesses really as heartless as this jerk implies? Do they really believe that their workers would be "getting the shaft" by having health insurance with adequate benefits? http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/does_us_chamber_soft.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/does_us_chamber_soft.php Quote of the Day Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:13:57 -0600 With action heating up in Washington for enactment of comprehensive healthcare reform, the nation's largest RN union and professional association joined with progressive Democratic Party activists today in calling for the most "robust" reform of all to repair the nation's healthcare crisis, by enacting a single-payer system in the form of expanded and updated Medicare for all. http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/on_eve_of_healthcare.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/on_eve_of_healthcare.php Action Alerts Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:46:17 -0600 To rephrase the very important point that Paul Starr brings to this debate, it is not the design of the public option that is crucial to successful reform under the model being advanced in Congress, but rather it is that the design of the insurance exchanges must be absolutely compliant with the rules of social insurance. If the exchanges are poorly designed, the public option would become a Medicaid-like dumping ground for low-income people with high-cost problems, and would suffer from a lack of willing providers because of chronic underfunding. And poorly designed exchanges could never meet the test of social insurance. http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/starr_reich_and_kut.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/starr_reich_and_kut.php Quote of the Day Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:39:16 -0600 Public Citizen | News release
The Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons urged President Obama today to create a single-payer pilot program on the island, saying it is the best way to provide universal coverage to all of Puerto Rico's 4 million residents.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/puerto_rican_doctors.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/puerto_rican_doctors.php Articles of Interest Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:13:05 -0600 By Kay Lazar | Boston Globe
Overseers of Massachusetts’ trailblazing healthcare program made their first cuts yesterday, trimming $115 million, or 12 percent, from Commonwealth Care, which subsidizes premiums for needy residents and is the centerpiece of the 2006 law.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/state_cuts_its_healt.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/state_cuts_its_healt.php Articles of Interest Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:27 -0600 By now you must be annoyed by those on the right who repeatedly claim that we do not have a problem with uninsured individuals. They say that the actual problem is that we are not counting them properly. Most of the uninsured would be insured, if only they showed a little more personal responsibility. http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/uninsured_by_choice.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/uninsured_by_choice.php Quote of the Day Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:41:57 -0600 Greg M. Silver, M.D. | Letter to the Editor | St. Petersburg Times
We already spend enough to insure everyone right now and it's 2 1/2 times what the average industrialized country spends. To pump additional monies into a system that over the last 50 years has proven itself wasteful, expensive, complicated and which produces poorer health outcomes than other countries is as absurd as it is reckless.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/let_medicare_cover_a.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/let_medicare_cover_a.php Articles of Interest Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:39:18 -0600 By Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders | United Methodist News Service
The United States has the best "sick-care" system in the world, but our "health-care" delivery system is lacking. We have the best doctors, the best hospitals, best academic health centers, best nurses, the best drugs, and we are leaders in research. Our problem is that the system is not available to all of our citizens.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/health_care_vs_sick.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/health_care_vs_sick.php Articles of Interest Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:25:58 -0600