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Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2010By Paul Hochfeld | CommonDreams.org
What do we say to our more conservative friends, who genuinely think that the Single Payer solution to our health care crisis would be a disaster? Try what follows. In the end, you may simply agree to disagree. That's O.K., but what follows may give them pause to think. -
Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2010By Russell Mokhiber | Single Payer Action
Single payer activists David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are moving to New York City. In the fall of 2010, they will become full professors at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health at Hunter College. -
Posted on Monday, February 8, 2010From Health Care for All Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee today unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for passage of single payer healthcare, Senate Bill 400 and House Bill 1660, also known as the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act."
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Posted on Monday, February 8, 2010It is a relief to know that Premier Danny Williams (Newfoundland and Labrador) is doing well after his heart surgery here in the United States. This news is a refreshing and reassuring breather after having been inundated with the callous releases from right-wing extremists celebrating Premier Williams' medical misfortune, used to both denigrate the Canadian health care system, and tout the quality of the U.S. system (for some).
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Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010Today's message is not meant to be an "I told you so," even if I did tell you. The point of the message is that health policy science has advanced to a level that the consequences of policies in various reform proposals are fully predictable. "Well, let's try this and see how it goes" is no longer acceptable, especially for our entire $2.5 trillion health care industry.
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Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2010Same story every year. Health care spending continues to increase at rates well in excess of inflation, and health care continues to represent an increasing percentage of our gross domestic product.
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Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2010by Shockwave | DailyKos
The supporters of SB 810, the most vetted and mature Single Payer legislation in America, marched and rallied at the Capitol in Sacramento yesterday. -
Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010By Suzanne Gordon
Boston surgeon Atul Gawande has become one of the most acclaimed mainstream media critics of American health care. An elegant writer with first-hand hospital experience, he has pointed out, in many articles for The New Yorker and several books, a number of ways that patient care could be improved. My major concern about his reporting has been its consistent failure to acknowledge the critical role that nurses and other non-physicians play in our health care system. -
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By Stephen Sokol, M.D. | African House Calls Blog
Well it is now the holiday season and we all look forward with gratitude for what we have to a wonderful season with family and friends-the true gifts of this time. Our friends at "Big Pharma" evidently have been so excited that they could not wait and decided to give themselves an early gift by raising prices this year so far a whopping 8.9% despite the fact that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has fallen 1.3%.