Single-payer advocate criticizes Obama, Dems
I’d not heard anyone talking about single-payer health care at the state level until I walked door-to-door with Sherry Stanley for a profile story that I wrote about her during her campaign for the 25th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1997.
All these years later, with much of her free time spent in the health-care reform effort locally and on Capitol Hill, Stanley is back where she started, pushing a single-payer state-level program as the next step given that she isn’t feeling what you’d call positive about where the health-care reform debate is going at the national level right now. Continue reading “Single-payer advocate criticizes Obama, Dems” »
Larry Struck | Fix health care by learning from other countries
Picture yourself with a serious health problem and no medical care. This is not difficult to imagine for anyone without health insurance or with substandard coverage.
Fortunately, my partner Debra, and I were in excellent health when we departed the U.S. aboard our sailboat for a multi-year sabbatical. We left corporate and government jobs which had provided complete first-class health care and insurance for decades. Now we were self-insured and decided to see what a medical system in another country could offer. Continue reading “Larry Struck | Fix health care by learning from other countries” »
Sam Rasoul | U.S. business, big and small, hurting because of our current health-insurance system
The practice of work-related health insurance began as a way for employers to get around the wage controls of the Second World War. The idea worked then, providing companies a way to attract the best workers in a time of labor shortage. Continue reading “Sam Rasoul | U.S. business, big and small, hurting because of our current health-insurance system” »
Liz Riggin | Health care should not be a luxury
The current health-care system is not meeting the needs of most Americans. Individuals and families are faced with overwhelming financial burdens when treating both “typical” medical needs and unexpected medical traumas. Due to the high cost of health care, many Americans are not seeking treatment. Delayed treatment usually leads to further health complications and requires more costly medical assistance. Continue reading “Liz Riggin | Health care should not be a luxury” »
A downturn, or a chance to regroup?
I don’t want to accept that we’re in an “economic downturn” just because everybody says that we are.
OK, sure, I get it. The banks aren’t loaning money because they got burned by the subprime-lending fiasco. And now the auto industry is supposedly on the kabosh. And factories are laying off left and right, just down the street from my office, literally, almost, in my backyard. Continue reading “A downturn, or a chance to regroup?” »
Bottom line – we’re falling behind because of our stance on single-payer
The Top Story by Chris Graham
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Poll: Would you support the adoption of some kind of universal health care system in the U.S.?
As recently as a year or two ago, mention of the words universal health care in the context of the ongoing national discussion of what to do to address the growing ranks of the millions of Americans who are uninsured or underinsured and thus lack stable, basic access to health care risked reducing the person uttering them to pantywaist-pinko-commie-liberal status.
But that was before the business and industry community started letting us all in on how they were struggling mightily to compete in the global marketplace given that the U.S. is the only major industrialized nation on the planet that does not offer universal health care to its citizens, in effect leaving the burden of providing health insurance on individuals and businesses who offer insurance as a benefit to employees.
Funny thing – how doing the right thing for doing-the-right-thing’s sake can get you ostracized, but when not doing the right thing starts to affect the bottom line, well, all bets are off. Continue reading “Bottom line – we’re falling behind because of our stance on single-payer” »
Chris Graham | We’re smarter than that
Posted by afp on March 18, 2009 · 9 Comments
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