Archive for March, 2009
« Previous EntriesSingle-payer health reform bill introduced in US Senate
Friday, March 27th, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
March 26, 2009
Quentin Young, M.D., (312) 782-6006
Mark Almberg, (312) 782-6006,
cell: (312) 622-0996, mark@pnhp.org
Would save $400 billion on bureaucracy, enough to cover all 46 million uninsured Americans
Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer health reform bill, the American Health Security Act of 2009, in the […]
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I
Friday, March 27th, 2009
March 23, 2009 12:48 PM
By Trudy Lieberman
Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as a model for other states and the federal government. Indeed that law has become the major blueprint for health system change on a national scale, and its advocates are […]
Healthcare Equality Project Launch
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Healthcare Equality Project Launch
3:00P.M – 4:30 P.M on Tuesday, March 24th
All Souls Unitarian Church
1500 Harvard St., NW., Washington, D.C. 20009
The Healthcare Equality Project (HEP) is a national partnership between nationwide and community-based organizations, faith networks, students, parents, and individuals working to achieve comprehensive healthcare reform that will eliminate healthcare disparities once and for all. We […]
The Granny Bashers: Different Facts, Same Policy
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Monday 16 March 2009
by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
The granny basher crew constitutes one of the largest and most determined lobbies in Washington. The top priority for this lobby is to cut Social Security and Medicare.
The lobby includes the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, with an endowment of […]
Health Care: The Promise and Perils of “Compromise”
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on March 16, 2009, Printed on March 17, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/www.alternet.org/131896/
The New York Times takes a look at Massachusetts’ ground-breaking push towards universal health care, and what it found offers some interesting insight for national health policy.
Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal […]
Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009March 16, 2009
NY Times
March 16, 2009
By KEVIN SACK
BOSTON — Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed.
To make it happen, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, made an expedient choice, deferring until another day any serious […]
Health Care Interpreters: Medical Necessity
Monday, March 16th, 2009Courant.com
by JEANNETTE B. DEJESUS
March 13, 2009
Over two agonizing January days, a mother brought her baby girl to two different Hartford emergency rooms begging doctors in Spanish to treat the 8-month old, who was critically sick with vomiting and diarrhea.
On the third day, baby Rosa Maria Rivera died in a police cruiser on the way back […]
Fight Over Public Plan Option Dominates Ways and Means Hearing
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009CQ HEALTHBEAT NEWS
March 11, 2009 – 5:17 p.m.
By Rebecca Adams
The House Ways and Means Committee bickered along party lines in a Wednesday hearing about the need to create a public plan option for the uninsured in legislation to update the nation’s health care system. The debate underscored the controversy that continues to surround the public […]
No Reason to Demonize U.S. Single-Payer Health
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Bloomberg.com
March 11, 2009
Commentary by John F. Wasik
It’s time to stop kicking sand in the face of single-payer health care. It may be the strongest solution around to insure every American at a lower cost.
After decades of industry campaigns against this model — dubbed by its critics as “socialized” medicine — it’s important to stop whining […]
21% of Americans scramble to pay medical, drug bills
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 By Liz Szabo and Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
Denise Prosser, 39, has battled cancer since she was a toddler.
Yet Prosser can’t afford her next cancer treatment — a radioactive therapy that she’s supposed to receive once a year — because she and her husband lost their jobs in December. Without insurance, she has postponed the radiation […]
