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Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010By Terri Hallenbeck, | Burlington Free Press
An economist who helped Taiwan and other nations create their health care systems told Vermont lawmakers Thursday that a single-payer plan can lower costs, but is not necessarily a foolproof remedy. -
Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010Associated Press | The Huffington Post
The Bill preserves language won by Baucus permitting many of the 2,900 residents of Libby, Mont., to qualify for Medicare benefits. Some of them have asbestos-related diseases from a now-shuttered mine. -
Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010By Dr. Sheila Leavitt | The Progressive
President Obama’s health reform proposal is not good for women, so it’s ironic he’s pushing it through during Women’s History Month.
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Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010Programs benefiting low income individuals and families, such as Medicaid and CHIP, are politically vulnerable to the whims of conservatives wielding budget cleavers. Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona has just provided us with a prime example of that. Yet popular programs benefiting everyone, such as Medicare, are relatively impenetrable to the weapons of the conservatives.
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Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010Empathetic souls will find the full version of this article to be very tough reading. When the 560 wage earners unanimously rejected the demands of Rio Tinto to give up much of their job security, the company terminated all of them in a job lockout. The impact on their small community of Boron is devastating.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2010William Pewen expresses the view of the majority of well informed moderates and conservatives: The likely eventual outcome of further deterioration in health care financing will be a single payer system, like it or not.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010By Clyde Winter
The insurance policy exemptions and co-pays and “reviews” resulted in substantial cost not being covered by insurance, and in the family quickly depleting all savings and credit. (The treatment was such that the father could not continue working, and since they, like virtually all working families in similar circumstances, could not afford to “choose” to make COBRA payments, the family no longer had health insurance.) They were informed by the hospital administrators that in order to continue the treatment plan, they would have to “choose” to sign a payment plan. Well, a payment plan does not even have the slim legal protections that remain for personal bankruptcy. A payment plan is whatever you agree to. And the administrators wanted everything this family owned in order to continue with the treatment plan. -
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.