by Sylvia Moore | Dec 8, 2010 | News
Here’s what Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has to say about single payer, in an interview published in The Times of India: Why have you been pitching for a single payer system for health insurance rather than a system where several private...
by Sylvia Moore | Dec 7, 2010 | News
Healthcare activist Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association asks in a recent essay: of what value is private health insurance? The answer is, none. Private insurance by itself doesn’t provide the medical care. It certainly doesn’t make our care...
by Andrew McGuire | Sep 17, 2010 | News
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 U.S. Census Bureau September 2010 Health Insurance Coverage in the United States Highlights * The percentage of people without health insurance increased to 16.7 percent in 2009 from 15.4...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 30, 2010 | News
Immigrants’ Experience with Publicly Funded Private Health Insurance The New England Journal of Medicine August 5, 2010 To the Editor: On October 31, 2009, Massachusetts involuntarily transferred about 30,000 legal immigrants (mostly “green card” holders) from...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 23, 2010 | News
Covering New Ground in Health System Shift By Robert Pear The New York Times August 2, 2010 Administration officials are eager to demonstrate and deliver what they see as the benefits of the new law (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). But they face a...
