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Monday, June 23rd, 2008What Really Ails Medicare
By Jonathan Cohn, The American Prospect
Posted on May 29, 2008, Printed on June 22, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/85832/
When Lyndon Johnson signed the law creating Medicare in 1965, he promised that it would transform the lives of America’s senior citizens. “No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine,” Johnson proclaimed. “No […]
McCain’s Free-Market Health Plan Would Boost Role of High-Risk Pools
Monday, June 23rd, 2008The Wall Street Journal
June 2, 2008
McCain’s Free-Market Health Plan Would Boost Role of High-Risk Pools
By Laura Meckler and Anna Wilde Mathews
John McCain’s plan for a health-care system built around consumers shopping for their own insurance comes with a significant downside: for people with a history of illness, it can be impossible to find coverage on […]
Government-Funded Care Is the Best Health Solution
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Government-Funded Care Is the Best Health Solution
Multiple Insurers, Multiple Plans Create Expensive, Draining Hassle
THE DOCTOR‘S OFFICE
By BENJAMIN BREWER, M.D.
THE WALL STREET JOUNRAL
A recently approved Massachusetts plan designed to force all residents to get health insurance was a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t go far enough.
Under the Massachusetts approach, there will still be […]
Research Finds Wide Disparities in Health Care by Race and Regio
Monday, June 23rd, 2008NEW YORK TIMES
June 5, 2008
Research Finds Wide Disparities in
Health Care by Race and Region
By KEVIN SACK
Race and place of residence can have a staggering impact on the course and quality of the medical treatment a patient receives, according to new research showing that blacks with diabetes or vascular disease are nearly five times more […]
UHCAN Statement of Unity
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Major health care reform is again at the top of our nation’s agenda. However, the outcome is far from certain. Will supporters of the status quo again succeed in confusing the public, capturing our elected officials and stone-walling meaningful reform? Will health care in America continue to cost too much, cover too little and leave […]
Discussion about McCain and Obama’s health care proposals
Saturday, June 21st, 2008An interview with PNHP Senior Health Policy Fellow Dr. Don McCanne on McCain and Obama’s health care proposals.
Dr. McCanne served as PNHP President in 2003-2004 and writes a daily health policy “quote of the day” for single payer advocates. Subscribe by dropping a note to don@mccanne.org.
PNHP: How would you characterize Sen. McCain’s health care […]
U.S. life expectancy still trails 30 countries
Saturday, June 21st, 2008U.S. life expectancy still trails 30 countries
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
The increase is due mainly to falling mortality rates in almost all the leading causes of death, federal health officials said. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2006 was […]
10% of Population, 40% of Uninsured
Thursday, May 8th, 2008by Melinda Tuhus |
As with environmental initiatives, movement toward universal health care is coming from the states. That was demonstrated again on Saturday with a regional action summit called Latino Voices in Universal Health Care.
The Latino community is the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population and has the highest percentage of uninsured and underinsured people,. […]
Dodd: Nation desires unviersal health
Thursday, May 8th, 2008By Ryan J. Phelan, Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN - The American people are desperate for a universal health care plan, said U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., during his keynote address at the regional action summit of Latino Voices in Universal Healthcare on Saturday.
Dodd’s speech touched on a number of topics discussed at the daylong summit, co-sponsored […]
Democrats Hedge on Health Care
Friday, April 25th, 2008By Manu Raju
The Hill
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Congressional Democrats are backing away from healthcare reform promises made by their two presidential candidates, saying that even if their party controls the White House and Congress, sweeping change will be difficult.
It is still seven months before Election Day, but already senior Democrats are maneuvering to lower public expectations […]
