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"Five Easy Pieces" to Achieve the Goals of Dirigo Health Care
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... A new study (HEALTH AFFAIRS, December 2005) found that “widespread national adoption of ... policy; a worker can get a lot more—health insurance, a growing pot ...
Chilean president follows up on new elder care
Seattle Times - United States
... was to monitor the implementation of her first measure as
president: free health care for all patients over 60 through the national health-insurance system. ...
Expensively Mediocre Health Care
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
... Say what you will about national health care on an individual level, but on a ... reducing costs appreciably?" And if we can de-link health insurance coverage from ...
National Health Insurance
Daily Graphic - Accra,Ghana
On a daily basis Ghanaians are being encouraged to join the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) because it offers an enormous hope of quality and ...
Single-payer plan the only solution
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... that a majority of Americans support government-guaranteed universal health insurance. ... because the entities controlling our for-profit health care system have ...
Winning the 2006 election: Health Care
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
... a single payer health insurance plan would make the economy more efficient, since people could switch jobs more easily. ...
The crumbling obstacle to universal health care
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Take the politics out of health care
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
HEALTH-CARE ANSWER: SINGLE-PAYER
City Newspaper - Rochester,NY,USA
... There is an answer, and that answer is universal health care. No, not "socialized medicine," but health care for all ---
LEGACY COSTS
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... After World War II, most industrialized nations adopted universal health care, but the United States resisted such
"socialistic" measures and stuck with its ...
Health-care system needs critical care
Seattle Times - United States
... Something's wrong. Every few years there arises a movement to reform health care, but those plans are easily squelched. ...
Healthcare reformers to push for universal coverage for kids
Sacramento Business Journal - Sacramento,CA,USA
... in requiring every Californian to have basic health insurance than in putting the mandate on
business, and expressed mixed feelings about a single-payer plan. ...
Health group may take on access
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... Among the ideas discussed Thursday were universal health care, or some sort of system that guarantees everyone -- regardless of income and insurance -- access ...
Other views: The marketplace stumbles over health care funding
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
A complex legacy
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
Health care remarks explained
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
Caldwell woman pushes health insurance reform
Marietta Times - Marietta,OH,USA
Right Plan, Wrong State
The Weekly Standard - USA
High taxes cause numbers in Massachusetts to fall
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg,MA,USA
Why change Dirigo when it's working?
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
Remember to first do no harm
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
It's Time To Dump The Dems, Support The Green Insurgency
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Facing delays in health care
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
In Session: By John Hopkins
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA
Talking politics at church
Belmont Citizen-Herald - Lexington,MA,USA
More voices in health care debate
Old Colony Memorial - Plymouth,MA,USA
Pope: Health care reform
Sudbury Town Crier - Framingham,MA,USA
Senate OKs Tisei's affordable health care for older workers bill
Wakefield Observer - Beverly,MA,USA
Nuciforo talks on health care
North Adams Transcript - North Adams,MA,USA
Illinois Lawmakers OK Program to Insure 'All Kids'
The Heartland Institute - Chicago,IL,USA
... office estimates 253,000 children who now have no health insurance could participate ... for
All Kids is to move the state toward a single-payer health care system ...
Platania and DeLoach present paper in Washington, DC
Elon University - Elon,NC,USA
... this study finds that moving to a single-payer health insurance system could increase GDP by as much as 3%.
North Adams
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
... council to support some form of single-payer health care ...
Food Workers Union Steps up Healthcare Reform Push
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... to make sure workers have a say in the medical-care reform debate, UFCW unveiled a website where
union members can easily access a Health Care Working Group ...
Doctors sue state over care for poor kids
Miami Herald - FL,USA
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Forum focuses on health care
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
Ford Bell Renews Challenge to Senate Candidates on Health Care ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Ford Bell today again challenged candidates in the US Senate race to "take the pledge" to
introduce universal single-payer health insurance if elected. ...
Seniors aren't the only ones confused by new drug plan
Tower Timberjay News - Tower,MN,USA
... at the behest of the insurance and
pharmaceutical ... the Harvard School of Public Health said they ... the prevailing conservative myth, a single-payer system, like ...
Local Opinion: Gary Harrison | Open Letter to Congressman ...
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
... We spend more money on health care than any industrial nation and have a 2nd rate health care system. We need a single-payer, national health plan now ...
Working Families Join National Movement for Health Care Reform ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
...
and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) announced a national effort to engage its 1.4 million members in the first national dialogue on health care reform in a ...
DC needs the Health Care Reform Act of 2005
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
By Peter E. Lavine. Mayor Anthony Williams deserves praise for introducing the Health Care Reform Act of 2005. Few politicians would ...
Courage Center CEO offers prognosis for health care in Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... Q Should universal health care be a goal in Minnesota? A Absolutely, both as an economic matter and as a matter of good health policy and social values. ...
Debate focuses on fixing 'flawed' US health-care system
Daily Utah Chronicle (subscription) - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... The Democrats took a moderate stance, shying away from the more liberal position of universal governmental health care. Although ...
Health benefits for gay families hinge on lawsuits
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... If anything, we'd like to see the debate moved away from tying marriage and health care benefits together. We support universal health care.". ...
Where is the outrage for universal medical care that equaled that for Ms. Schiavo?
Now let's put same effort into health care reform
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
Health care above politics
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
On Wednesday, Sen. Sheila Kiscaden, I-Rochester, and Rep. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, introduced a comprehensive health-care reform bill before the Legislature. ...
Making Colorado Healthcare Better, Affordable and Accessible
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... more money on healthcare than any other
country, the quality of our system is inferior. Patients and providers can benefit from new ideas, reform and emerging ...
Health care racism kills 83,000 yearly
People's Weekly World - USA
... Lack of health insurance and lack of equal access to a single standard of ... Troutman supports the call for a single-payer, universal health care system that will ...
A historic debate
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... article in The New Yorker magazine points out that insurance companies reject ... A simplistic
faith in single-payer and simplistic opposition will no longer do. ...
A grim outlook on health
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
... Also possible is the
creation of a single-payer health system in Massachusetts, in which the state would become the insurance provider to every resident. ...
The uninsured
Blue Springs Examiner - Blue Springs / Independence,MO,USA
... also brought up a concern often voiced when discussing universal health insurance. ... in the group reached a consensus that a state single-payer universal plan ...
Solution is elusive
Times Press - Streator,IL,USA
SPRINGFIELD -- In the decade since President Clinton's universal health care plan failed, the number of uninsured
Americans has grown by about 5 million. ...
Committees take testimony from public on health care reform
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
...
Committee. Those two panels are leading the effort to find a way to reform the way health care is delivered and funded in the state. ...
New report finds savings in universal health care bill
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
SACRAMENTO A Democratic lawmaker says a new report by a Virginia consulting firm shows that her universal health care bill would mean big
savings for ...
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Chamber to hosts health care forum
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... State Sen. Phil Scott will address health savings accounts, and Steve Hingtgen
will present the case for universal health care. ...
Vermont Governor Jim Douglas' 2005 Budget Address
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... offered a responsible health insurance plan that moves
us steadily toward universal health insurance coverage, and prioritizes preventative care and policies ...
Filling the gap
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
... As we have said before, the nation must continue to work toward a universal health care system, instead of its
current tattered hodgepodge of public and ...
Social Security reform is the wrong policy
Bowling Green Daily News - Bowling Green,KY,USA
... In fact, the US
average 77-year life span falls a year or two below that of other major nations, all of which provide universal health care coverage and ...
NE Editorial Roundup
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... of a single-payer system or other proposals designed to offer universal care. ... proposals are comprehensive, addressing most segments of the health care sector. ...
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West County this week
Contra Costa Times (subscription) - Contra Costa County,CA,USA
... Universal health care workshop -- 6-8 pm Jan. 25. El Sobrante Library, 4191
Appian Way. Sponsored by American Institute of Engineers. Free. 510-758-6240. ...
VA's CEO announces resignation
Amarillo Globe News - Amarillo,TX,USA
The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Amarillo ... was recently
named central region group director f
An Alternative Inaugural Presidential Address
Common Dreams - USA
... providing quality health care for all. The time has come not to repair, but to replace our
hopelessly flawed current system with nonprofit universal single ...
... Dirigo Health still a work in progress
Portland Press Herald - Portland,ME,USA
...
believe that some form of universal health care was ... In the final deal the various health system stakeholders ... particularly Dirigo Choice, its insurance component ...
Health care: What price reform?
Vermont Guardian - Winooski,VT,USA
... newly created Health Care Finance and Administration Committee, said his panel would look at
plans ranging from health savings accounts to a single-payer system ...
Alternative insurance bill readied by Cooper
Tullahoma News - Tullahoma,TN,USA
... announcement regarding TennCare restructuring is a "brave move, and we
acknowledge his efforts to reform the program and preserve healthcare benefits for ...
Health Biz: Medicaid lines become clearer
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... to be a model for any national approach to Medicaid reform, but rather ... some Medicaid populations and use the savings to create a basic healthcare package for ...
Synagogue's new service: healthcare
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... organize the effort, said a survey interviewing members about their general social concerns
showed that many members had an interest in healthcare reform. ...
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(Largest non partisan) GROUP Urges Universal Health Coverage
by Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer
National Coalition on Health Care says::
"The number of Americans without insurance is projected to top 51 million by 2006,
up from 41 million in 2001, the group said. The average annual premium for employer-sponsored coverage for a
family will be $14,565 in 2006, more than double what it was in 2001, the coalition said"
"Former Iowa Gov. Robert Ray, a Republican, said the crisis is constantly worsening. "You cannot
have increases in premiums of 14 percent when inflation is 2 1/2 percent," Ray said.
"You cannot have costs rising four times faster than wages."
The coalition says it has
picked up more than 40 new members in the past 18 months, including Bell South, the energy company Cinergy, General Electric and General Motors.
"When did you last hear some of the largest
corporations in America call on government to come in and fix this problem?" Simmons said.
The coalition on Tuesday brought together a number of prominent Americans,
including AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, AARP president Bill Novelli and the
leaders of large corporations, pension systems and religious groups.
FULL STORY HERE:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Health%2 0Care%20Reform
Studies Look at Health Care in the U.S.
By Jeff Madrick, N.Y.Times
"Americans spend some 14 percent of gross domestic product on health care, while other advanced nations spend an average of
8 percent" ........"What may surprise readers, and certainly surprised this writer, is that Americans, by paying so much more, do not have many more services. In fact, according to recent research, they typically have fewer."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/business/08scene.html?ex=1091372015&ei=1&en=1 2886b97642136c5
A health care ideal
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
THE
LEGISLATURE gave preliminary approval last week to a sweeping constitutional amendment intended to guarantee health insurance to every Massachusetts resident
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/07/19/a_health _care_ideal/
Radical new approach to health care
Dunkan, Oklahoma
..Out-of-control health
care costs forced the city of Duncan to take some drastic action to rein them in earlier this year........Physicians earn only 17 cents for every dollar of health insurance premium, Green said.
Hospitals take 28 cents of that dollar, he said, while health insurers claim 27 cents and pharmacies take 22 cents.
http://www.newsok.com/article/1280161/?template=business/main
UNIVERSAL health care could solve the cash crunch, hospitals say
Centre Daily Times - Centre County, PA
... This situation is unfair and unjust.". Hospitals said the cash crunch would
best be solved through universal health care coverage for Americans. ... Hospitals routinely charge uninsured Americans up to four times as much for health care than patients whose insurance plans
foot the bill, financial experts told lawmakers Thursday................That overbilling, largely caused by hospitals seeking to cover growing indigent care costs, puts already financially strapped
people at the mercy of aggressive debt collectors who threaten to deduct their wages, put liens on their homes and otherwise ruin their credit ratings............"We're talking about people who
don't have insurance because either they never had it, can't afford it, they've lost it," said Rep. Jim Greenwood, R-Pa., who chaired the hearing in front of a House oversight panel.
<http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/sports/horse_racing/kentucky_derby/9010812 .htm>
HOSPITAL board backs SB 921: Bill calls for a single-payer health in California ...
Sonoma Index-Tribune - Sonoma,CA,USA
... rancorous debate Wednesday, the Sonoma Valley Hospital board approved a measure supporting Senate Bill 921, calling for single-payer health insurance. ...
<http://www.sonomanews.com/articles/2004/07/02/news/top_stories/news02.txt>
SUPPORT single-payer healthcare insurance
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach, DE
I support a
single-payer healthcare insurance for Delaware. This plan would not only include everyone, but also include small businesses ...
<http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20040630/749575.html>
DOCTOR recommends strong medicine for nation's health care ills
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA
...
want to get physicians' representatives excited, ask them about tort reform, not patient care. Elected officials give lip service to health care issues, but at ..
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/180204_herbert01.html>
MINERS rally to retain benefits
Kentucky.com - Lexington ,KY
... The miners stood across the street from the court for
nearly two hours and shouted for health care reform and justice as some 60 lawyers debated Horizon's ..
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/9052907.htm>
HEALTHSOUTH Announces Closing of HealthSouth Metro West Hospital
Yahoo News (press release) - Birmingham, AL...Healthsouth announced that it will permanently close HealthSouth Metro West Hospital
effective midnight September 2, 2004. The Company says its efforts to recruit and retain the physicians necessary to make the hospital profitable have been unsuccessful,,,,,
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040701/clth075_1.html>
Healthcare, litigation manufacturers toughest burdens
Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal - PA
"Losing the competitive edge
due to the cost of healthcare can slash companies' profits, which may lead to downsizing or even plant closures or relocations.
To help combat the nationwide problem, manufacturers need to band
together to advocate for healthcare reform says, Eric Esoda, director of finance and administration at the NEPIRC."
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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12123241&BRD=2231&PAG=461&dept_i d=449419&rfi=6 >
NOW Can We Talk About Health Care?
New York Times - USA
"In 1993,
there were 37 million uninsured Americans. .....But now some 43.6 million Americans are uninsured, . . .
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/magazine/18POLICY.html?ex=1082865600&en=9
cbae3af4a6a900e&ei=5062>
FORD MOTOR COMPANY Sick About Health Care
Washington Post - United States
DETROIT - Alarmed by his company's escalating health insurance costs and
a frightening scarcity of remedies, Ford Motor Co. chief executive William C. Ford Jr. declared in December that the nation needs an entirely new health care system. Then he tapped Ford's vice
chairman to craft a proposal to develop one.
< http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55729-2004May25.html >
AMERICANS Say Health Care Access Threatened by Liability Crisis
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
A new poll released today by the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) reveals that
Americans believe a growing crisis in health care liability is pushing health care costs up and forcing good doctors out of medical practice. By overwhelming margins (82 percent), Americans say their
ability to get the health care they need is threatened by excessive litigation.
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040407/dcw018_1.html>
HEALTH care system serves moneyed interests
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
... We need health care that is less profit-driven, eliminates waste and gets more ... to nudge our present system toward more efficient and universal
coverage have ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/167928_health07.html>
MEDICAL lawsuits jeopardize health care
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... system
is driving up the cost of health care and forcing many ... This reform would have still allowed plaintiffs to be compensated for all medical care and all ...
<http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/opinion/8406884.htm>
THE Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... Aside from tort reform, Carter and others believe arbitration is a good ... lawyers staged protests on Capitol
Hill against Intermountain Health Care, the state's ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Apr/04112004/utah/utah.asp>
Middle-Class Misery Index Hits Record Under George Bush ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington, DC, USA
... billion in middle-class tax cuts, and a series of policies aimed at reducing health care premiums, helping ... John Kerry's agenda to
promote universal access to ...
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=125-04122004>
US Group Encourages Canadians to Report 'Artificial Shortages' ...
PRNewswire (press release) - USA
... America, a project of the nonprofit Civil Society Institute, is not involved in any way in the health care industry or the recent lobbying on Medicare reform.
...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-12 -2004/0002149798&EDATE=>
BUSH Doesn't Answer Health Qs
TheCarConnection.com
... and government in partnership - to make a pact for reform.". According
to a Gallup Research poll published Tuesday, Americans in general say
that healthcare ...
<http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?n=156,175&sid=175&article=6791>
KENNEDY to propose universal health care
Boston Globe
... night that criticizes President Bush's own health care ... More than
44 million Americans have no health insurance, but previous proposals
to provide universal ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/kennedy_to_propose_universal_ health_care>
UNIVERSAL health care sought
Boston Globe, MA
WASHINGTON -- The United States must find a way to provide health care
... for president on the Democrat side [who] are talking about a universal
health ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/15/universal_health_care_sought>
NATIONAL health insurance recommended
A nonpartisan scientific advisory board says that the U.S.
government should support expanded health coverage by 2010
Miami Herald, FL
..<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/7714716.htm>
STATE must lead the way
San Francisco Chronicle, CA
... A statewide universal health care bill, introduced by Sen. Sheila Kuehl,
D-Santa Monica, was approved by the Senate last summer. ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/18/BUGT64BR2E1.DTL>
FIRST STEPS ' in health reform controversial
KOB-TV, NM
(Santa Fe-AP) -- Governor Richardson says his legislative proposals are
first steps toward ensuring health care for all New Mexicans, but he expects
some ...
<http://kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=7785&cat=HOME>
NATION'S Medical Students Continue Advocating for Universal ...
Common Dreams
... AMSA wants to make universal health care a reality by 2005. AMSA believes
that equal access to comprehensive health care is a fundamental ...
<http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0120-01.htm>
FROM health care to hog lagoons: Presidential candidates on the ...
San Francisco Chronicle, CA
... of Bush's tax cuts to free money for health care ... Sees health plan
and pension reform as primary engines for ... credits of up to $2,000
a year for the universal ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/17/politics1553EST05 55.DTL>
IDEA of the Week: Health Information is Good Medicine
NDOL.org
... Measuring and improving health care quality is a big reform that can
produce huge benefits for the health of Americans, the fairness of our
health care system ...
<http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=207&contentid=252342>
YOUTHS focus on health care reform
Utica Observer Dispatch
DURHAM, NH - For Will Regii, a senior at the University of New Hampshire,
health care is a personal and political dilemma -- like many youths across
the nation ...
<http://www.uticaod.com/archive/2004/01/23/news/24552.html>
DEMOCRATIC Presidential Candidates: Health Care
WIS
... Edwards' plan would also require all parents to provide health insurance
to their ... health care" a step further, "Medicare for all, guaranteed:
single-payer ...
<http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1612366&nav=0RaPKN65>
THE candidates on health care
Portsmouth Herald
... The Kucinich plan is enhanced 'Medicare for All,' a universal single-payer
health insurance system that addresses the needs of every American. ...
<http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/01232004/news/71882.htm>
DAVE Zweifel: Drug firms pull out stops on imports
The Capital Times, WI
... The Bush administration, doing the bidding
of the big drug corporations, wants to make it next to impossible for U.S. citizens to buy their drugs in Canada. .... and ..."A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a
free market."..."But heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy."
<http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/column/zweifel/64442.php>
PRIVATE health plans divert money from care
Times Picayune, LA
... The money that people now pay for high insurance premiums could be
used to pay for a single-payer system to provide care for everyone. ...
<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1073026528116590.xml>
WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST from Cover the Uninsured Week
Some of the nation's top stories are published here each week.
http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/news
HEALTH Care For Dummies
Newtown Bee, CT
... That's not a bad start. Such universal care is also cheaper. The United States spends about 31 cents of its health dollar on administrative costs....
<http://www.newtownbee.com/Opinions.asp?s=Opinions-2003-12-10-13-57-39p1.htm>
HEAL Health Care System? Start Anew
New York Times
... With a single-payer system, we could save $209
billion a year by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private insurance industry. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/health/02CONV.html?ex=1070946000&en=3bbb2
4465e4a6461&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
SINGLE-PAYER health care system advocated by physicians
Modesto Bee, CA
... Several studies show that a single-payer system could save
enough in administrative costs to fund insurance for all the uninsured. Critics are unimpressed. ...
<http://www.modbee.com/opinion/community/story/7810179p-8698572c.html>
UNION official urges health care reform
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, WI
... We are rapidly getting to the point where the health care system is close to collapse," Newby said at the
Manitowoc County Democratic Party's recent ...
<http://www.wisinfo.com/heraldtimes/news/archive/local_13460813.shtml>
SINGLE payer the most logical system
Modesto Bee, CA
... If you are tired of these twisted priorities, support a single-payer system in which every patient has the same insurance
coverage, and every hospital or ...
<http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/7882755p-8762227c.html>
HEALTH crisis needs national solution
The News-Press, FL
The United
States is the only industrialized nation without some form of universal health coverage for all its citizens. Health care costs are rising rapidly. ...
<http://www.news-press.com/news/opinion/031214nathan.html>
HAMPTON Falls man sees a different side of Cuba
Hampton Union, NH
... According to Bornstein, Cuba has a universal
health-care system that is three-tiered in its approach to wellness. There are the <http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/hampton/12142003/news/65681.htm>
PROZAC may be hazardous to your health insurance
MSN Money
... may wind up being shared with a third-party payer ... Thomas, who was once a small-group health insurance ... so not every
individual insurer can deny every single ...
<http://moneycentral.msn.com/redir/gredir.asp?pageid=MC_TOPARTICLES&target=/cont ent/Insurance/Insureyourhealth/P41966.asp>
BAD MEDICINE?
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX
... bottles of prescription drugs sent to the Star-Telegram: Speed Scripts
of Miami; Prescriptions and Travel of Miami; Universal ... Even improved health care ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/7503179.htm>
SAM Newlund: Free health care for all, cradle to grave? It's time
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN
... Universal health care, or something close to it, is as normal as fingernails in
Britain, Canada, France, Germany and elsewhere. ...
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4265030.html>
SENIORS find it pays to shop around for medicine
Tulare Advance Register, CA
... The group advocates for the passage of SB921 Health Care for All Californians Act which aims to achieve universal health care, including prescriptions, for all ...
<http://www.tulareadvanceregister.com/news/stories/20031213/localnews/31750.html>
REPUBLICANS Turn Efforts to the Uninsured
New York Times
... Howard Dean, a physician,
advocates "a repeal of Bush's tax cuts so that we can provide universal health care," and he points to his record as governor of ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/politics/14HEAL.html?ex=1071982800&en=99fb7f a427c70bae&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
YES universal health coverage
Morgan Hill Times, CA
... only group that wouldn't benefit are the health insurance companies themselves, which may explain the opposition there is to the idea of universal health care ...
<http://morganhilltimes.com/life/lifeview.asp?c=85924>
UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE FOR MASSACHUSETTS / BEACON Hill Roll Call
Newton Tab, MA
... Sponsors of a proposed constitutional
amendment providing universal health care to all Massachusetts residents filed more than 71,000 ...
<http://www.townonline.com/newton/news/local_regional/new_govnerollcall12092003.htm >
KUCINICH criticizes health insurance system
San Jose Mercury News, CA
... High School students, favors a government-run single-payer system. Kucinich criticized the other Democratic
candidates for offering Americans health insurance ...
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7460659.htm>
PANEL seeks to heal pain of health care
Duluth News Tribune, MN
... Gov. Tim Pawlenty's push to reform health care in Minnesota arrives in Duluth today seeking input from patients, employers and consumer advocates....
<http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/7465603.htm>
A healthy approach to rising health care costs
Doral Tribune, FL
... liquidate investments with early withdrawal
penalties or sales charges to cover health care ... and deductions to help you take full advantage of tax reform ...
<http://www.communitynewspapers.com/2002/dnews/12-08-03/health2.htm>
BILLS would force health care provider to repay claims faster
Oakland County Press, MI
... I believe people deserve to be reimbursed promptly and I think these delays add increased costs to
our health care system.". ".. To reform their process and ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10640369&BRD=982&PAG=461&dept_i d=467992&rfi=6>
AS Congress adjourns, Wyden notes successes
Bend.com, OR
SECURING QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OREGONIANS ...Congress passed Wyden's bipartisan "Health Care That Works for All Americans"
legislation, a bipartisan measure written with U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) which maps out a national dialogue on health care to be followed by guaranteed hearings in Congress. It provides for a
series of open, public community meetings at which Americans can state their health care preferences, and creates a Citizens' Health Care Working Group to synthesize and relay those preferences to
Congress and the White House. ...
A single-payer plan
Salt Lake Tribune, UT
... for approximately 2.5 million New Englanders, had more people administering its program than Canada's
single-payer program employed to administer insurance for ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Dec/12102003/public_f/118409.asp>
BUSH signature won't end Medicare debate
Christian Science Monitor
... Neither can anyone predict whether private insurance firms will be ... party-payer model" back to a "market-mediated binary-payer model" would be
"the single ...
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1209/p02s02-uspo.html>
KUCINICH sees Iraq as key election issue
NH Primary, United States
... HEALTH CARE: Wants to establish
a streamlined, single-payer national health insurance and rid current system's ties to HMOs and other private health ...
<http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031210/NEWS01/212100346 >
HOPEFULS take issue with debate
NH Primary, United States
... Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun
said as the only woman in the race, she's also best able to take on Bush with a bold plan for a single-payer health-insurance ...
<http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031210/NEWS01/212100344 >
HEALTH-CARE debate focuses on US vs. Canadian systems
Palm Beach Post, FL
... About 44 million
Americans lack health insurance and too many dollars are ... Floridians for Health Care, a West Palm Beach group that advocates single-payer ...
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/auto/epaper/editions/monday/business_f3 2d09efc227602c0050.html>
ROSE: Portents and pills
Carolina Morning News, SC
... of the
medical profession are actively promoting what is known as "single payer ... to all Americans, including the 60 million now without health insurance ...
<http://www.lowcountrynow.com/stories/120503/LOCrose.shtml>
BRAUN pushes single-payer health-care plan
Nashua Telegraph, NH
... Moseley Braun told business leaders Monday that her
plan for a single-payer ... owners have to incorporate what they spend for private health care insurance ...
<http://nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&SubSectionID=354&ArticleID=937 72>
DEMOCRATIC Candidates for President Debate in Iowa
New York Times
... I mean, as long
as insurance companies control the health care, the cost ... have a bill in HR 676 with John Conyers that establishes universal, single-payer ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/politics/campaigns/24TEXT-DEBATE.html?ex=107 0341200&en=6df97a77ccf3752e&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>
TOWN health costs too high
Brattleboro Reformer, VT
... Her suggestions ranged from a single-payer system, which would take an act by the state Legislature, to having the town become its own insurance provider, to ...
<http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~1808095,00.html>
CAN America Afford Not To Provide Universal Health Care?
Forward, NY
... Finding a politically feasible path to
universal coverage will not be easy. ... Determining how best to spread these costs among businesses, health care
www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.12.05/oped2.html
VIGIL stresses need for health care for everyone
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH
Advocates for universal health care held a brief candlelight vigil last night to call attention to the millions of
Americans who have no, or very little ...
www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1070793012229900.xml
UNIVERSAL health care option
Washington Times, DC
...
national health insurance with a single-payer method of health-care provider reimbursement. The foundation of an optimum system is mandatory universal health ...
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20031126-075003-7262r.htm
UNINSURED a risk to public health
St. Petersburg Times, FL
... Public Health Association. A disease outbreak whose spread
was scientifically linked to uninsured people might motivate politicians to advocate universal care, ...
www.sptimes.com/2003/12/07/Tampabay/Uninsured_a_risk_to_p.shtml
CITY votes in support of universal health care
Daily Pennsylvanian, PA
... re-elected John Street as mayor last Tuesday, but what is perhaps less well known is that voters also came out
strongly in support of universal health care. ...
www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/3fb495ba1aa92
FOGARTY unveils health-care reform proposal
Providence Journal Bulletin (subscription), RI
Gov. Charles Fogarty presented a health-care reform package today that he said will help meet the health care needs of Rhode Islanders and negotiate
lower ...
http://www.projo.com/digitalbulletin/content/projo-20031202-healthcare.62000226.html
HEALTH-CARE reform advocate dies at 63
KTVB, ID
BOISE -- Health care reform advocate
Doctor Bob LeBow died Saturday of complications from a bicycle accident last year. The Boise ...
<http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/ktvbn-nov3003-lebow.5a69e888.html>
GROUP pushes health care reform
Edwardsville Intelligencer, IL
Even as the US House and Senate debated the future of Medicare programs, representatives of the Illinois Foundation for Quality
Health Care (IFQHC) were ...
<http://www.goedwardsville.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10575635&BRD=2291&PAG=4 61&dept_id=473648&rfi=6>
HEALTH care reform petition submitted
North Adams Transcript, MA
WILLIAMSTOWN -- With eight initiative petitions circulating statewide, one seeking to reform health care in Massachusetts, was submitted to Town Clerk Mary ...
<http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103~9054~1796542,00.html>
