Health care and the benefits of citizenship

The lengths to which the Republican Party is trying to sabotage the Affordable Care Act is nothing short of bizarre. Some might say, evil. But this resistance to providing every American with affordable health care isn’t really about health care. It’s really a...

Don McCanne, MD: Why we need an improved Medicare

How does the benefit value of Medicare compare to the benefit value of typical large employer plans?  A 2012 update Prepared by Frank McArdle, Ian Stark, Zachary Levinson, and Tricia Neuman Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2012 Key findings from this report include: *...

Single Payer Responses to the Supreme Court Hearings

Thanks to Dr. Don McCanne of Physicians for a National Health Program who compiled the bulk of this sampling of articles reacting to last week’s Supreme Court hearings examining the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. At the bottom, I have added a few...

Why They Don’t Listen – How We Can Change That

Dear Supporters, The California Senate was only two votes short of passing SB 810 last week. But six Democrats refused to support the bill when it was put to a vote in the California Senate. You may have been one of the thousands of Californians who called these...