Public Health Care

Yes, They Can: How Emerging Economies Are Building Universal Health Coverage

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Monitoring and Evaluation, Poverty, Developing Countries, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Global Poverty, Bio-Metrics, Health Care, Means Testing, Emerging Markets, Developing World Healthcare, Government Health Care, Public Health Care, World News
Marcelo Giugale

While the debate rages in rich nations, successful developing countries like Brazil, Chile, China, India and Indonesia have figured out a way forward, and are moving ahead. Here is what they are doing.

Read Post

Why We Need to Humanize the Public Health System

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health, Public Health Care, Public Health Care System, Public Healthcare, Health Care System, Health Care, Healthcare, Statistics, Home News
David Katz, M.D.

Public health progress is forestalled by a monumental fiction: there is no "public." There's just you, and me, and everyone else.

Read Post

Why Public Health Care is Better than Private Health Care

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Health Care, Private Health Care, Economics, Private Health, Health Care, Politics News
Hale

While I will almost always advocate for a market based economic approach to allocating resources, health care is not an area where the profit motive should dominate decision making.

Read Post

The Secret History Of Mammography

Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Public Health Care, Breast Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Screenings, Prevention, Mammogram, Health, Healthy Living News
Devra Davis, Ph.D.

Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic.

Read Post

Dick Armey - Master Scaremonger

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meet the Press, Dick Armey, Scaife, Freedomworks, Nancy Pelosi, Metlife, Washington Post, Philip Morris, Healthcare Reform, Tea Party, Healthcare, Public Health Insurance Plan, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Universal Healthcare, Public Health Care Option, Public Health Care, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

What's sad is that these scaremongering tactics are so effective. They make it easy to forget that we rank #37 in world health.

Read Post

Rep. Giffords Bucks Fellow "Blue Dogs," Supports Public Health Care Option

FIreDogLake | slinkerwink | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health Care, Blue Dogs, Gabrielle Giffords, Democrats, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Gabrielle Giffords, a Blue Dog Democrat, wrote an editorial in the Arizona Daily Star, about the need for health care reform that includes a strong pu...

Read Whole Story

Americans Back Public Health Care, New Polls Reaffirm

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health Care, Public Health Insurance, Polls Public Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Polls Health Care, Politics News

Two new polls show that Americans support health care reform, but they're concerned about costs. Quinnipiac found that 69 percent of voters nationwid...

Read Whole Story

Self-Preservation: The Real Reason the GOP Opposes Health Care Reform

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe Scarborough, Bill Kristol, Health, Public Health Care, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Whig Party, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

Public health care isn't just the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. For the Democrats, it also makes the most sense politically.

Read Post

AMA Support Can Secure The Public Option

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Obama Ama Speech, Ama, Obama Ama, Health Care Reform, Public Health Care, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Health Care, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

It's time for AMA physicians to take back the compassion and honor that led them into their profession and support the public alternative.

Read Post

Ryan Grim

Pelosi: Health Care Reform Can't Pass Without Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health Care, Pelosi, Pelosi Health Care, Pelosi Health Care Overhaul, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Huffington Post Thursday that a health care overhaul that did not include a public option wouldn't make it through...

Read Whole Story

Ryan Grim

Nelson Again Open To Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health Care, Ben Nelson, Baucus Health Care, Ben Nelson Health Care, Politics News

On Tuesday, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said that he is open to a public health insurance option as long as it doesn't undermine existing private insuran...

Read Whole Story

Conservatives Step Up Ad Campaign Against Obama Health Plan

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Obama, President Obama, Health Care, Public Health Care, Obama Health Care Plan, Rick Scott, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A conservative group that's been running ominous ads warning that President Barack Obama will institute government-run health care ...

Read Whole Story

Evan Bayh "Agnostic" On Public Health Care

ThinkProgress | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Coburn, Bayh Health Care Reform, Evan Bayh Health Care Reform, Public Health Care, Health Care Reform, Evan Bayh, Politics News

On Fox News Sunday this morning, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) trashed the idea of including a new public health insurance plan as part of health care reform...

Read Whole Story