A First Person Look at Canadian Health Care

Dermatologist Elizabeth Rosenthal, a supporter of single payer health care, wanted to see for herself how Canada’s Medicare system worked. She was part of a New York delegation that took a trip to Toronto to interview providers and patients. Rosenthal wrote...

Healthcare Refugees

Why should anyone have to leave their homeland and live in exile just to have access to affordable medical treatment? But millions of Americans have done just that. If our healthcare system is so great, why is it that so many of our fellow citizens are voting with...

Don McCanne, MD: Why don’t Americans live longer?

Why Don’t Americans Live Longer? By David Leonhardt The New York Times January 25, 2011 The National Academy of Sciences has just released a fascinating report on life expectancy in rich countries around the world. The researchers who wrote the report — public-health...