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Broken Levees, Broken Lives: A Post-Katrina Focus on Health
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Comparing the McCain and Obama health proposals
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 2008-08-25 16:23.Campaign case report: What Obama and McCain pledge to do about the health system
McCain would end the employee tax exclusion for soundness security against loss spending, instead offering refundable tax credits to help people buy health insurance.
I can’t say it enough, the fate of health care will be determined by the down ballot races.
How Conyers put the health care plank in the Dem platform
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 2008-08-25 13:27.Democrats’ platform shift on health care
Yet, at the national Platform Drafting Committee meeting in Cleveland at the start of August, the official reception was a bit frosty. When I arrived there early one morning and renewed a longstanding request for a minute or two to make a verbal presentation on behalf of the statement for guaranteed health care, the party’s national platform director informed me candidly: “It’s not going to happen.”
But grassroots organizing continued. Read more
Biden on health care
Submitted by DCblogger on Sun, 2008-08-24 14:02.JOE BIDEN’S “REALITY” BASED HEALTHCARE
To make the plan less prone to attack from those who fear “socialized” medicine, Biden said, “I don’t want a whole new bureaucracy.”
This is why it is necessary to ALWAYS refer to it as Medicare for All. Because it would require no new bureaucracy to administer, we would just use the present Medicare system. It is Medicare, what we have now, the only difference is that it includes everyone.
Medicare for All and the Dem primary for AZ first CD
Submitted by DCblogger on Sun, 2008-08-24 13:57.The CV Bugle has a good article on the Democratic primary for the first CD in Arizona. The good news is that all but one of the candidates supports Medicare for All.
Medicare for All: letter to the Packet Online
Submitted by DCblogger on Fri, 2008-08-22 14:43.Private health care system is failing
Being recently unemployed, with a heart condition, I feel that the lack of guaranteed health care, is keeping me from pursuing a business of my own, switching jobs or careers and/or seeking consulting work, simply because I must have health coverage and with my pre-conditions, I am not eligible to obtain it on my own.
Our healthcare neglect system is a powerful incentive for age discrimination.
Have you written a letter to the editor in support of Medicare for All? Remember, it’s not socialized medicine, it’s Medicare for All!
Why emergency rooms are closing, why the remaining ones are crowded
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 2008-08-19 12:49.Fifteen days of blogging for health care reform: Unfunded mandates
“You know about EMTALA, right?” Read more
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Health Insurance parasites are a burden to American business
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 2008-08-19 12:21.Why Uncle Sam is Dr No of healthcare
US health costs are at least twice as high as in countries like France, Britain and Germany with better systems. (Many Americans have an unshakeable belief that these systems are inferior, but no data on longevity or success in handling major diseases supports that prejudice.).
The massive cost disadvantage is a major drag on economic competitiveness. Read more
Pro-parasite referendum on the ballot in Arizona
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 2008-08-18 22:53.Initiative on health care will be on ballot after all
PHOENIX — Arizonans will get to decide in November whether they want to block the state from imposing a universal health-care program, after all. …
… State House Minority Leader Phil Lopes, D-Tucson, has proposed a universal health-care plan that would pool everything being spent by all parties on health care — including government, business and individuals — to set up a plan under which everyone gets the same basic coverage. Lopes has pegged the cost at close to $35 billion. Read more
Health care rally action alert, Saratoga Springs, NY
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 2008-08-18 14:59.August 21, Saratoga Springs: Health care rally for Capital District
Date : 21 August 2008 From : 11:00am To : 12:00pm
Category : Health / Care Location : 12866Event Description :
A new coalition of groups called Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) is holding a rally outside the Saratoga Springs Hospital. Read more
Single payer for Illinois, HB 311
Submitted by DCblogger on Sat, 2008-08-16 17:06.Geneva hearing tackles universal health care
GENEVA — Tears and cheers rose from the Kane County Government Center Thursday night as citizens and Illinois state representatives gathered to discuss the controversial topic of universal health care.
State Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, led a citizen hearing to clarify issues surrounding Illinois House Bill 311 and problems with the current health-care system in Illinois.
“We are not for sale,” Flowers said of raising health insurance premiums. “This is about our lives.” Read more
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Medicare for All; letters to the editor
Submitted by DCblogger on Sat, 2008-08-16 17:02.Americans need publicly financed, privately delivered health care
‘Healthcare Not Warfare’ at Denver DNC!
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Coming attractions: Physician blogging at Echidne
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Trojan Horse Alert
Submitted by DCblogger on Wed, 2008-08-13 20:47.Proposed Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Research Institute
Declaring that “it’s high time that we built a foundation of evidence for the trillions of dollars spent on health in America each year,” US Democratic Senators Max Baucus and Kent Conrad have introduced legislation to create a Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Research Institute, which would “review evidence and produce new information on how diseases, disorders, and other health conditions can be treated to achieve the best clinical outcome for patients.” Read more
Medicare for All would save Colorado $1.5 billion per year
Submitted by DCblogger on Wed, 2008-08-13 11:56.The extensive study of Colorado’s health care system for the legislature’s 208 Commission found that a single-payer system would save Coloradans $1.5 billion per year while covering everyone. America’s unique market-based system (with 47 million uninsured) leaves us paying almost twice as much per capita for our health care as other industrialized nations.
Further, it is patently ridiculous to suggest that with a single-payer system, where coverage is guaranteed, people would still avoid needed health care because of fear of costs. Read more
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How Medicare for All would save us money
Submitted by DCblogger on Wed, 2008-08-13 11:51.The Observer: American health-care system is ripe for reform
Interestingly, America’s primary health insurer is the federal government. By some estimates, one out of every three Americans (as many as 100 million people) already obtain their health insurance from the federal government. Many of these (e.g., military service personnel and veterans) have a form of universal-single-payer insurance, but most of the rest of us shop in the “free market” for health care. Read more
Healthcare, Udall and the Colorado Senate race
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 2008-08-12 19:13.The Grand Junction Free Press publishers an Open Letter to Rep. Udall Read more
More healthcare defeatism from Krugman
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 2008-08-11 12:45.In his latest column Paul Krugman makes clear, once again, that he does not know the difference between health insurance and health care.
Once again, all together now, WE NEED HEALTHCARE, NOT HEALTH INSURANCE!
There’s every reason to believe that a program that extends universal coverage to the nonelderly would soon become equally popular. Consider the case of Massachusetts, which passed a state-level plan for universal coverage two years ago. Read more
Physicians for a National Health Program in the news
Submitted by DCblogger on Sun, 2008-08-10 13:20.Consider the case for a national health program
The words “socialized medicine” are like stink bombs. Drop them into a discussion of health care reform, and everyone runs for the door.
So let’s try another phrase. How about “Medicare for all”?
Leon Zoghlin and Peter Mott have been members of Physicians for a National Health Program for decades. And when they talk about reform, they mean Medicare for all. It’s been working well for senior citizens since the 1960s. Why not share the good? Read more
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Senator Ken Salazar begins shift on healthcare
Submitted by DCblogger on Sun, 2008-08-10 12:56.Salazar talks rural health care in Valley
ALAMOSA — “I’ll be the first to admit I have a lot more to learn,” said U.S. Senator Ken Salazar about health care in Creede yesterday. He discussed health care with a vocal community at the Creede Ambulance Barn, one of 32 stops he will make statewide to thrash out the issue.
This is a good sign. This is how politicians talk when they are preparing to shift positions. Read more
City of Austin backs 'single-payer' health plan
Submitted by DCblogger on Fri, 2008-08-08 12:17.AUSTIN, Texas - Affirming that “every person deserves access to affordable, quality health care” and noting that area residents are not getting it, the Austin City Council called today for the enactment of a nonprofit, single-payer national health insurance program.
At its regular Thursday meeting, the Council voted to endorse the U.S. National Health Insurance Act, H.R. 676, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and 91 other members of Congress. The vote was six in favor and one abstention.
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Single payer is not socialized medicine, it's "Medicare for all"
Submitted by DCblogger on Fri, 2008-08-08 11:52.Merrill Matthews, executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance writes a letter to the Kansas City Star:
In single-payer systems such as Britain’s, taxpayers pay higher taxes for universal health coverage and the government pays most of their medical bills. Read more
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City of Austin to consider resolution of support for HR 676
Submitted by DCblogger on Thu, 2008-08-07 09:33.That bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, sponsored by John Conyers (D-Michigan), would create a nation-wide single-payer health care system. Read more
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