"I'd love to change the world...but I don't know what to do...so I'll leave it up to you..."
- - Ten Years After
2008
LA city attorney sues Health Net over cancellations
Reuters'sThe lawsuit, filed late on Wednesday by City Attorney Rocky
Delgadillo, also accuses Woodland Hills, California-based Health Net of false advertising ...
Health insurer defrauded customers, LA city attorney contends
San Jose Mercury News
AP
LOS ANGELES - The city attorney has sued one of California's largest insurers, claiming Health Net Inc. sold policies despite conducting an illegal scheme ...
Aetna, CIGNA In NY Probe
Hartford Courant -
The companies New York has subpoenaed for information include Health Net , Oxford Health Plans (part of UnitedHealth), GHI/HIP, Capital District, ..
- 2007/06: Partial list of newspaper articles on American health care reform. There are so many, we can't keep up with them! For dozens more, see our archived news page
Time for universal care
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
What I am saying is that we need to take the cue from other Western nations and
establish universal health care, ...
Crisis of the Uninsured: 2007
National Center for Policy Analysis - Dallas,TX,USA
This is a requirement of the Massachusetts health reform law and many of the other
universal coverage proposals. This is also how auto insurance works in 47 ...
Cancer Society pushes for cancer insurance
MSNBC - USA
"The promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a lie without universal access to
health care," he says. The ad campaign, one of the biggest ...
Stop fearing socialize health care
UW Badger Herald - Madison,WI,USA
When stated like this, there seems to be so much at stake tied up in the insurance industry.
Why rock the boat with universal health care? ...
Universal health care provides options
USA Today - USA
Those who don't like universal health care always have the choice to use private health
insurance instead. In practical terms, the private option results in ...
Congress passes CHIP bill, but Bush expected to veto
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Matt Canham WASHINGTON - President Bush has repeatedly threatened to veto a
bipartisan bill that would expand the Children's Health Insurance Program ...
Children's health insurance program at risk
KHAS-TV - Hastings,NE,USA
By Robert Price In just a few days, the State Children's Health Insurance Program will
expire. The Democrat–controlled congress has passed a bill to ...
Republican Presidential Candidates Address Health Care, Other ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
John Edwards - Organizer-in-Chief
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
According to public opinion polls, Americans are even more ready now than they were
13 years ago for a bold universal health care reform plan. ...
Baltimore family joins health care showdown
Baltimore Sun - United States
said Halsey Frost, who along with his wife is an advocate for a national health care plan that
would cover everyone, no matter the age or income bracket. ...
New approach needed on national health care
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
I do not understand why our business community still wants to support private health
insurance when it raises their costs. They should be lobbying for HR ...
Children's health care, and the deceit
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Marshall was the only Georgia Democrat to vote against the big-dollar expansion of the
campaign-fodder health insurance entitlement. ...
Strike at GM ends with tentative healthcare deal
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The trust fund would get GM "off the hook" in the national health insurance debate, he said.
The proposed contract also would create a two-tier wage scale, ...
Democratic Hopefuls Urged to Eliminate Private Health Insurers
Bloomberg - USA
``The insurance industry's culpability in the health-care crisis is irrefutable,'' said Todd Main,
campaign director of the Physicians for a National Health ...
Pennsylvania Proposal Seeks Health Insurance Savings
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
Centralizing health insurance would cut administrative expenses for districts, make the state
"a partner" in paying health-care costs, and allow the state's ...
Some will chip in more for insurance
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
It's the latest example of how employers in the region and nationwide are dealing with
health care costs. A national survey by Mercer, the world's largest ...
Posted April 2, 2007:
Health Care Reform Back on the US Agenda
NPR - USA
STARTING HEALTH CARE REFORM
Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL,USA
On the problem of health care in New York,...
Governor's health care proposals offer a starting point for debate
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... just two questions among many raised by the governor's attempt to get through the
political, economic and social minefield that is health care reform. ...
Opinion: Time for the affordability discussion
Worcester Business Journal - Worcester,MA,USA
As Massachusetts embarks on what is inarguably the most ambitious health care reform
effort in the nation, each step of the process merits close attention. ...
Governor's health care proposal is wrong prescription, nurses say
KGET 17 - Bakersfield,CA,USA
The governor released a statement saying, "The California Nurses Association's analysis of
the governor's health care reform is misleading and uses flawed ..."
Disabled hit huge roadblocks in routine health care
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
People with physical disabilities endure substandard health care and a pervasive sense that
they are a burden to doctors and medical centers, according to ...
Stark introduces universal health insurance bill
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
The AmeriCare Health Care Act would establish AmeriCare, a new program that would
use Medicare to provide health insurance to residents who do not receive ...
April 12, 2006 - - MASSACHUSETTS. GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY SIGNS BILL BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE PRIVATE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
- - Landmark health care reform? Humbug! Healthcare industry lobbyists spent over $7.5 million to force uninsured Massachusetts residents into private plans that will create
new business and new profits for insurers and does nothing to cut down costs, nothing to reform the system of the waste and discriminatory practices for health care access.
What Physicians have to say to Governor Romney about this bill
Paul Krugman, The New York Times:
*Nov. 24, 2005 - Health Economics 101
*Nov.7, 2005 - Pride, Prejudice, Insurance
*June 13, 2005 - One NationUninsured
*April 11, 2005 - Ailing Health Care
Veterans Health Administration Provides 'Useful' Example for Health Care Reform,
The Medicare Drug Plan: Nothing But a Scam
Medicare Drug Disaster
California Loses with Bad Insurance Merger. Yes, this nasty deal was approved.
Coverage, in pieces, LA Times, April 3, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-real3apr03,1,2961877.story?coll=la-headline s-health
NPR's Julie Rovner: Consensus on Health Care System Fixes Remains Elusive http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5354898
Residents Voice Concerns About Health Care at Billings Forum http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/04/22/montana/a05042206_01.txt
South Texans Sick of Health Care System
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/stories/MYSA042006.01B.HealthForum.17f1 ae8b.html
Working Group Member, Dr. Patricia Maryland, Hands On Health Care
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060423/BUSINESS/604230386/1 003
Join National Health Care Debate, Cincinnati,
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/EDIT02/604200304/1090 /EDIT
Guest Opinion: Speak up Friday in national health care, coverage forum, Senator Baucus
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/19/opinion/gazette/48-guestopinion3.txt
Gatherings Examine US Health Care, Las Vegas
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Apr-15-Sat-2006/news/6842065.html
Health Debate Comes to San Antonio
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA041806.1B.healthforum.d5ceaaa .html
Health Care Meeting is a Chance for Input
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA041806.2O.beelercomment.c6645c9 .html
A stop for National Health Care Dialogue
http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006604120400
Your voice can help transform local health care
http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006604130491
Lawmakers, Citizens Talk Health Care
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2006/04/11/news/iowa/54e43218f7f9fadd86257 14d000c4c96.txt
Health care system in crisis, many at forum say:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006604090342
Suddenly the Government Wants Your Opinion, Philadelphia Daily News,
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/14229368.htm
Tell Us What You Think, Philadelphia Daily News
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/14275273.htm?template=contentModul es/printstory.jsp
Voice views on health care, Des Moines Register
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006604070341
Help Shape Health Agenda, Dayton Daily News,
http://www.daytondailynews.com/opinion/content/opinion/daily/0405letters.html
California Nurses Assn - Single-Payer Health Care Legislation Wins Union Endorsement - - March 17, 2006 California Healthline - - The California Nurses Association on
Wednesday announced its support of a bill (SB 840) that would create a single-payer health care system in California, the Oakland Tribune reports (Vesely, Oakland Tribune,
3/16). The bill, introduced by Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles), would establish a state-run health insurance system -- including a state agency, commissioner and medical
board -- to negotiate fees, set medical care policy and pay claims (California Healthline, 2/25/05). The union also said it is supporting a national bill (HR 676) for universal health
care, and plans to place a universal health care measure on the ballot by 2008. CNA announced its support for a single-payer system during a reunion of about 300 nurses who
traveled to the Gulf Coast to offer medical care to those affected by Hurricane Katrina (Oakland Tribune, 3/16). According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the "nurses said the
Gulf Coast disaster dramatized what they viewed as an obvious need for change" in the U.S. health care system (Hall, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/16).
Excerpt from Editorial:
www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN16031806.h tm
"Fragment a system into enough pieces that cannot possibly always keep a patient's history
straight; let insurance providers behind impregnable walls of bureaucracy act like judges of proper and improper care; narrow patients' choice to arbitrary lists of doctors and
providers -- lists that change year after year, depending on an insurer's relationship with a care network or a company's relationship with an insurer; force the uninsured to use
emergency rooms, where you rarely get the same doctor twice, as primary care facilities, and the question becomes: What choice does the system have but to cheat patients of the
care they need half the time? The system is set up to do battle with itself and with patients, at quality care's expense. Distant insurers benefit. Shareholders benefit. Pharmaceutical
companies benefit. Patients, in the hierarchy of care's benefits, are near the bottom of the pole."
Gubernatorial candidates talk universal health care coverage
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA
... governor endorsed efforts to provide health insurance to nearly ... for nearly a third of health care spending ... going to talk about universal health care coverage. ...
The Case Against Health Savings Accounts
CFO.com Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... number from March 2005, according to America's Health Insurance Plans, an ...
overinsure than underinsure," notes Edward Kaplan, national health practice leader of ...
