When Patients Own the System
Donna Smith The national legislative healthcare fix that may be passed by the 111th Congress and then signed by President Obama will do little to relieve the stresses felt by most patients in this...
View ArticleObamacare: Why I'm Voting 'Yes'
Dennis Kucinich The following are the prepared remarks offered by US Rep. Kucinich today regarding his plans for the upcoming health care vote:read more
View ArticleZero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it's incidental.In fact, many who were lauding a public option as the...
View ArticleIt’s Really Quite Simple: Do We Value Each Life in America?
Donna Smith The question is straightforward and simple. Do we value each life? Yes or no. No matter what Congress passes or doesn't pass, no matter what the President signs, no matter who buys...
View ArticleAbsurd Week Inside the Beltways for Patients
Donna Smith Surreal. I am writing this while in a hematology/oncology office in Maryland. The fact that I'm writing an essay while receiving treatment and have done two conference calls and all my...
View ArticleThe Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed
Chris Hedges Rep. Dennis Kucinich's decision to vote "yes" in Sunday's House action on the health care bill, although he had sworn to oppose the legislation unless there was a public option, is a...
View ArticleDems Reap All the Red-Baiting Pain with None of the Socialist Gain
Jon Walker Democrats did not offer a truly socialized health care system like they have in the United Kingdom. They did not just pass a universal single payer health care system like "Medicare for...
View ArticleA Cloward-Piven Strategy for Single Payer?
Chris Maisano With yesterday's passage in the House of the Obama administration's health care reform bill, it would seem at first glance that the movement for national, single-payer health insurance...
View ArticleDiary of a Wimpy Health Care Bill
Rose Ann DeMoro Passage of President Obama's healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of virulent rightwing opposition. Now that we have an insurance...
View ArticleImprove and Strengthen Medicare by Expanding It to All
Margaret Flowers The following text is the testimony that Dr. Margaret Flowers presented to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform at its June 30 hearing in Washington. Dr....
View ArticleWhat We Make Our Sisters Do for Healthcare
Donna Smith Sisters, we are allowing great pain and suffering. Sisters, we are doing more than allowing great pain and suffering, we are participating in it. All around us, our moms, our daughters,...
View ArticleObama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick
Chris Hedges A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks...
View ArticleWhat if Everyone Had Medicare?
The Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the United States earlier this month, and it's no surprise to learn that we're in bad shape. The number...
View ArticleState Health Law Waivers: Opportunity or Ominous?
Margaret Flowers President Obama announced at the National Governors Association on Monday that he supports an amendment to the health law that would allow states some flexibility to innovate with...
View ArticleFirst Anniversary: The Incredible Shrinking Obama Health Care Law
Kevin Zeese At its one year anniversary the Obama health care law is shrinking while the health care crisis grows. Americans who lack any health coverage still exceeds 50 million, over 45,000 deaths...
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