by Sylvia Moore | Oct 7, 2014 | News
As the Ebola pandemic in west Africa dominates news headlines here in the United States, the question is whether this country can adequately deal with such a public health emergency. Already, there are troubling signs. In a for-profit healthcare system such as ours,...
by Sylvia Moore | Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
While we in the single payer movement fight to dismantle the fragmented, for-profit healthcare system, it helps to know how we got here in the first place. Jacobin Magazine’s The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care by A.W. Gaffney is a worthy longread about...
by Sylvia Moore | Jun 18, 2014 | News
Sometime in May, after nearly three weeks of sitting on pins and needles, I finally got my Blue Shield insurance card in the mail. I had paid my premium before the April 15 deadline, but considering that a) the insurance companies were dealing with millions of new...
by Sylvia Moore | Apr 23, 2014 | News
CAPITAL in the Twenty-First Century By Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press The overall conclusion of this study is that a market economy based on private property, if left to itself, contains powerful forces of convergence, associated in particular with the...
by Sylvia Moore | Mar 20, 2014 | News
Health policy expert and single payer supporter Uwe Reinhardt said in a recent interview with the Washington Post that the United States won’t ever have single payer “because our government is too corrupt.” Reinhardt points the finger at special...