http://singlepayerhealth.org/
SINGLE-PAYER IS THE ONLY SOLUTION!
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/october/doctors_to_candidate.php
Doctors to candidates: enact single-payer health reform
Contacts: Steffie Woolhandler, M.D. Oliver Fein, M.D.
Over 5,000 U.S. physicians have signed an open letter calling on the candidates for president and Congress “to stand up for the health of the American people and implement a nonprofit, single-payer national health insurance system.”
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/september/in_texas_the_health.php
In Texas, the health care crisis is only getting worse/ Census statistics show state’s children at risk By DR. ANA MALINOW Houston Chronicle Monday, September 8, 2008
The problems of our state and nation’s health care are systemic. They are a result of a defective model of financing health care, a model based on the investor-owned private health insurance industry, which adds no value to health care.
The private health insurers make profits by enrolling the healthy, screening out the sick and denying claims. I see the destructive results of this “non-system” every day. It is simply not sustainable economically nor justifiable morally.
The cure is a single-payer national health insurance program, an improved and expanded Medicare for all. Cut the administrative waste and profits of the insurance companies out of the picture. Let people go to the doctors and hospitals of their choice. Give everyone, without exception, access to the medically necessary care they need. We don’t need to spend a penny more than we spend right now if we take insurance companies out of the equation.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/september/thinking_big_on_heal.php
A doctors’ organization, Physicians for a National Health Program, has been pressing for single-payer national health insurance. It points out that the United States now spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, while Americans lag in life expectancy and infant mortality rates and 47 million lack health coverage. It argues that 31 percent of the nation’s health care cost now goes into the private insurance bureaucracy and paper-work and that a single-payer plan would save more than $350 billion a year.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/october/pbs_frontline_interv.php
PBS Frontline Interview with T.R.Reid Fall 2008
T.R. Reid is a veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of nine books, including three in Japanese. He is currently working on his 10th book, titled “We’re Number 37!,” in which he compares America’s health care system to others around the world. It is scheduled to be published by Penguin Press in early 2009.
Do you think that reform is going to happen this time?
Yes. I am confident that we’re going to do it. I think Americans are ready for fundamental change, for two reasons.
First, our system is so expensive and inefficient that we can’t afford it anymore. It’s a big competitive disadvantage for U.S. industry.
Second, Americans are too decent and too generous to accept a system that leaves tens of millions of our fellow citizens without access to health care. [According to the Institute of Medicine,] about 18,000 Americans die each year because they can’t get the medical treatment that would save their lives. That’s morally unacceptable.
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/148/1/55
POSITION PAPER Achieving a High-Performance Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries American College of Physicians* 1 January 2008 | Volume 148 Issue 1 | Pages 55-75
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/9/916?etoc
Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States. Marcia Angell, MD
