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Single Payer National Health Insurance

At the Heart of the Healthcare Challenge, a Question of Money in Politics

Frank A. Weil | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthcare System, Health, Private Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Obama Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Reform, Hmos, Healthcare, Politics News
Frank A. Weil

To get to the heart of America's healthcare challenge, we must end the longstanding system of pay-to-play politics by fundamentally reforming the role of private money in federal elections.

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Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health, Media Censorship, Max Baucus, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer System, Single Payer, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Healthcare, TV Networks, Media News
Isabel Macdonald

The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

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MY Healthcare Problem

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Abby L. Ferber

Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.

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OBAMACARE: Will It Be Affordable Universal Health Care or a Government Bailout for the Insurance Companies?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Health Care Plan, Public Option, Baucus Health Care, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Single Payer Healthcare, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

The problem is that an overly compromised health reform bill that satisfies the health insurance lobby and its Democratic and Republican supporters in Congress may not be "good" at all.

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In Global Recession, Health Care Reform Which Saves Money Is An Economic Imperative

John Geyman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Great Depression of the 1930s, Global Recession, M.D., Health, Market-Driven Inflation of Health Care Costs, Mccain Proposal, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Failures of Deregulated Markets, John Geyman, Nhi, Obama Healthcare, National Health Insurance, Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan, Obama Healthcare Plan, Gdp, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, FEHBP, Politics News
John Geyman

While the so-called "debate" over health care reform heats up, the only real option to reform health care -- single-payer national health insurance (NHI) -- is being largely overlooked.

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McCain's Health Care Plan Radically Irresponsible

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Senate, John McCain, Insurance, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Democrats, Health Care, Republicans, Home News
Michael L. Millenson

What a disappointment. Here Barack Obama accuses John McCain of pushing a "radical" health care plan, and instead of grabbing the chance to don a scar...

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Wake Up and Smell the Health Insurance: The Key to Turning Around Starbucks

John Geyman | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Health Insurance, Cars, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Fixing the Health Insurance Industry, Starbucks Model, Health, Nhi, Starbucks Health Care, Starbucks Closures, Business News
John Geyman

Starbucks has been a model among U. S. employers for its social responsibility to its work force since its founding. But today, Starbucks is hurting, its biggest challenge to future growth high health care costs.

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