by Sylvia Moore | Mar 30, 2011 | News
Gov. Jerry Brown’s first whack at California’s $26.6 billion budget deficit is going to hit low-income Californians hard, especially those who rely on the state to get health care. Last week, Brown signed a bill reducing the state’s deficit by $11.2...
by Sylvia Moore | Mar 14, 2011 | News
Imagine a healthcare system that looks like single payer on the surface, but where the government issues cash payments to citizens allowing them to purchase services directly from health providers. This idea is being floated by former Tennessee governor and health...
by Andrew McGuire | Mar 8, 2011 | News
Neat, Plausible, and Wrong: The Myth of Health Care Unsustainability Canadian Doctors for Medicare February 2011 The “Sustainability” Myth Critics of Medicare assert that the cost of our public health care system is growing at an alarming pace. They are joined by...
by Sylvia Moore | Feb 15, 2011 | News, Video
This video from the independent broadcaster, The Real News Network, aired on Jan. 18, and features Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association debating Shikha Dalmia, a senior analyst for the libertarian think tank, Reason Foundation. This segment took place...
by Andrew McGuire | Nov 24, 2010 | News
Is the Deficit Commission Serious? By Kevin Drum Mother Jones November 10, 2010 So this report matters (the “chairman’s mark” of the deficit commission report), even though it’s really nothing more than the opinion of Alan Simpson and Erskine...