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  • The battle for Vermont's health
    Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012
    By Wendell Potter | iWatch News
    MONTPELIER, Vt. — You can’t see them. They’re hidden from view and probably always will be. But the health insurance industry’s big guns are in place and pointed directly at the citizens of Vermont.

  • Time to raise our voices: health justice still not won
    Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2012
    The following remarks by Dr. Claudia Fegan, past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, were delivered to the annual strategy conference of Healthcare-Now! on Jan. 28 in Houston.

  • Calif. single-payer campaign to begin new push
    Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2012
    The Union (Grass Valley, Calif.)
    The Campaign for a Healthy California on Wednesday denounced the failure of the California Senate to pass SB 810, the California Universal Care Act. The bill died when it remained two votes short of passage.

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  • California's health insurance lessons for the U.S.
    Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
    This highly informative UCLA policy report on the status of health insurance in California confirms that coverage and access have grown more dire, made even worse by the recession. Although the report explains how some of the benefits of the Affordable Care Act will provide limited improvements, it is also clear that we will fall far short of meeting all of our health care needs.
  • Uwe Reinhardt describes single payer, and we respond
    Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012
    In his article, single payer is dismissed based on lack of political feasibility, a view widely held in the United States. In contrast, Dr, Reinhardt discusses an all-payer system in which prices are standardized and budgeted by associations - a great improvement over our current system (which Dr. Reinhardt discussed in a previous blog). However, he states, "Admittedly, a transition from the current to an all-payer system for all providers of health care in all states would be challenging, both analytically and politically." Politically challenging. Isn't that like questioning political feasibility?
  • A word about the Susan G. Komen Foundation
    Posted on Friday, February 3, 2012
    Nothing further needs to be said about how unwise it was for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to cut off funds for breast cancer services at Planned Parenthood facilities. Having made an error so grievous that some suggest could result in the demise of this public service organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer, we should ask if we can afford to lose their contributions to this effort.

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