by Sylvia Moore | Sep 23, 2011 | News
In an excellent essay posted on the site October2011.org, Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program writes that the real reason we still don’t have Medicare for all in this country is because of the immense power of concentrated wealth....
by Andrew McGuire | Sep 14, 2011 | News
Number of uninsured climbs to highest figure since passage of Medicare, Medicaid 50 million uninsured shows urgency of enacting single-payer Medicare for all: national doctors group Official estimates by the Census Bureau showing an increase of about 1 million in the...
by Sylvia Moore | Sep 9, 2011 | News
When California Senate Health Committee Chair Ed Hernandez’s foot dragging earlier this year nearly killed the single payer bill, SB 810, outright, I wondered whether health insurance industry lobbyists had gotten to him. Hernandez, a Democrat, eventually voted...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 23, 2011 | News
The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve Industrialized Nations By David A. Squires The Commonwealth Fund, July 2011 This analysis concentrated on 2010 OECD health data for Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand,...
by Sylvia Moore | Aug 19, 2011 | News
The Saint-Louis Post Dispatch recently published an editorial that finally addresses the real solution to the nation’s debt woes: If America truly is serious about dealing with its deficit problems, there’s a fairly simple solution. But you’re...