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]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/americas_affordable.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/americas_affordable.php Articles of Interest Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:35:24 -0600 Healthcare-NOW!
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the House passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, to much celebration by the Democratic party. Healthcare-NOW!'s view, however, is that the House bill is a gift to the insurance industry at the further expense of the people of this nation.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/healthcarenow_state.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/healthcarenow_state.php Articles of Interest Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:50:30 -0600 Agence France Presse (AFP) News
The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, according to a new study.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/lack_of_health_care_.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/lack_of_health_care_.php Articles of Interest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:56:06 -0600 John A. Day, Jr., M.D. | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
With the election of Barack Obama as our 44th President and the installation of a new United States Congress has come renewed attention to health care reform. Appropriately, there is a sense of urgency regarding the 47 million Americans without health insurance and the millions more underinsured, and to make matters worse, it is inevitable that both numbers will increase due to rising unemployment. In response to this crisis, most health care reform proposals attempt to guarantee at least some health coverage for all Americans. Yet nearly all proposals achieve this aim in large part through the current private insurance system. It is well worth asking: exactly what value does the insurance industry bring to health care in this country? And if it contributes little of consequence, is there another way?]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/simple_fair_and_af.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/simple_fair_and_af.php Articles of Interest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:04:17 -0600 Amy Goodman | Democracy Now
On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died in 2008 because they were uninsured. We speak to the report's co-author, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. ]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/study_over_2200_us.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/study_over_2200_us.php Articles of Interest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:41:11 -0600 By Jonathan Cohn | The New Republic
Critics have complained that a drug industry got a sweetheart deal when it struck a bargain with the White House and Senate Finance Committee over health care reform. There’s new reason to think those critics were right.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/new_evidence_of_phar.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/new_evidence_of_phar.php Articles of Interest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:46:03 -0600 By Jonathan Cohn | The New Republic
It was September 2008, at a town hall in Virginia, where Obama was offering a preview of how he intended to conduct his presidency. He would change the way Washington works, make it transparent, and, in so doing, deliver what the American public needed--starting with affordable health insurance. But, just a few months later, Obama's team was doing exactly what he said his administration wouldn't do: negotiating behind closed doors. The subject, sure enough, was health reform. The partner was the drug industry. By June, they had a deal.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/drug_deal.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/drug_deal.php Articles of Interest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:49:51 -0600 By Elyse Siegel | The Huffington Post
According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers emphasize that "that figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died (911 as of Oct. 31) since the war began in 2001."]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/2266_veterans_died_.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/2266_veterans_died_.php Articles of Interest Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:55:15 -0600 By Mass-Care
]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/three_frequently_ask.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/three_frequently_ask.php Articles of Interest Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:47:33 -0600 Of all the torrent of words that followed House passage of its version of healthcare reform legislation in early November, perhaps the most misleading were those comparing it to enactment of Social Security and Medicare. http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/statement_by_cnanno.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/statement_by_cnanno.php Articles of Interest Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:31:13 -0600 By Viji Sundaram | New America Media
Lack of health insurance claimed the lives of more than 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 last year, says a Harvard Medical School study out today. That number is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and twice as many (911 as of Oct. 31) as have died since the war began in 2003.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/over_2200_vets_died.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/over_2200_vets_died.php Articles of Interest Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:28:23 -0600 By Donna Smith
So, I wake this morning to see that Speaker Pelosi lied again about why she just could not allow a single-payer amendment to survive the legislative effort in the House on healthcare reform.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/how_much_lying_will_.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/how_much_lying_will_.php Articles of Interest Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:27:20 -0600 Dr. Carol A. Paris | Letter to the Editor | South Maryland Newspapers
In the spirit of full disclosure, I support a single-payer national health program. That said, my comments are focused on HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. I agree with Wendell Potter, the former head of public relations for CIGNA, that this legislation could more accurately be titled "The Private Health Insurance Profit Protection and Enhancement Act."]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/squandered_a_golden_.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/squandered_a_golden_.php Articles of Interest Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:32:31 -0600 By Patti Singer | Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat And Chronicle
The day before the much-anticipated vote on health care reform in the House of Representatives, Eric Massa, D-Corning, said that the Affordable Health Care for America Act gives too much to the insurance industry, doesn’t do enough to control costs, and he can’t support it.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/massa_says_he_cant_.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/massa_says_he_cant_.php Articles of Interest Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:05:50 -0600 Medical News Today
On the eve of what would have been the first national vote on single-payer legislation Rep. Anthony Weiner's single-payer/Medicare for all amendment was withdrawn Friday, November 6.]]> http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/cnannoc_statement_o.php http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/cnannoc_statement_o.php Articles of Interest Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:04:16 -0600