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• Obama's Reform: No Cure for What Ails Us  See also response by Dr. Pat Herndon of SAHNC: Lessons from Swiss Healthcare Reform and the Great Society
  

• Should We Support a Public Medicare-Like Option in a Market of Private Plans?
• "Public Option" Pales Next to Single Payer
• Healthcare Reform: Single Payer and the Public Option
  
• The "Public Plan Option": Myths and Facts
  
• Summary of Healthcare, Guaranteed, book by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
• Massachusetts is No Model for National Health Care Reform See also addendum by Gaye Kopas of Health Care for All Texas
  
• Healthcare Lifeboats (Massachusetts reform failed to control costs, so the governor plans to cut costs by slashing public hospitals and clinics)
  
• Subsidizing COBRA is not enough—We Need Single Payer
• Cognitive Dissonance: The Healthcare Reform Battle's State of Mind
• Universal Health Insurance Profits
  
• Administration is Open to Taxing Health Benefits
• Consensus Bid Could be Derailed by Health Overhaul
  
• Which Way to Universal Healthcare?  Two Leading Reformers Debate the Role of Private Insurers
• Health Savings Accounts are Ill-Advised
  
• Talking Points: Why the Mandate Plans Won't Work, and Why Single-Payer 'Medicare for All' is What We Need
  
• The Realities of Massachusetts Health Care Reform
• Copy Massachusetts' Health Reform? Not So Fast, Researchers Say
• Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit and Socializes Risk
• Filling the Insurance Gap for Working People
  

• "Single-Payer" Supporters Challenge Democrats
• Congre$$: Heal Thyself
  
• Well, Well... Going to Healthcare Hell
  
• Baucus Flees from Single Payer Advocates
• Health Care Activists Disrupt Senate Finance Committee Hearing
• Doctors Protest Exclusion of Single-Payer at Senate Finance Committee
  
• Doctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested
• Why we Risked Arrest for Single-Payer Health Care
  
• A Challenge to Corporate Health Insurance Power
  
• Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare
• Why has the Press Failed Us in Reporting on Health Care Reform?
  
• Single-Payer News from the Vermont Health Forum
  
• Hopes, Fears at Vermont Health Care Forum
  
• Posturing Coalitions: The Latest Attempt to Block Health Care Reform
• Unions Back Plan that Could Kill Off Real Health Care Reform
• As Obama Hosts Summit on Healthcare, Marginalized Advocates Ask Why Single Payer is Ignored
• Healthcare Foxes are Building the Taxpayer Funded Hen House
  

• The Polling is Quite Clear: The American Public Supports Guaranteed Healthcare on the "Medicare for All" or "Single-Payer" Model
• We Already Have a Popular Single-Payer Health Care System: It's for Active Military and Veterans
  
• 1,000 Picket Health Insurance Convention in [San Francisco]
• Can it Happen Here?
• The Polling is Quite Clear: The American Public Supports Guaranteed Healthcare on the "Medicare for All" or "Single-Payer" Model (flyer)

• Most Doctors Support National Health Insurance, New Study Shows
• Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare
  
• Internist Society Sees Single-Payer as Option
• Universal Healthcare: Private Enterprise Can't Fix Our Ailing System (conservative doctor calls for single-payer)
  

• Business Benefits of a Single-Payer Medicare-for-All System  (brochure)
  

• Sen. Bernie Sanders: We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry
• Republican County Legislature Strongly Endorses H.R. 676
• [New York] State Assembly Points the Way Forward on Health Care
• City of Austin Backs "Single-Payer" Health Plan

• Labor Councils Endorse H.R. 676
• Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council Endorses H.R. 676

• Statements of Support from Health Care Justice Leaders

• Max Baucus Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America
• Single Payer and the Duplicitous Rahm Emanuel
• Obama's False Friends of Health Reform
• Health Insurers Refuse to Limit Rescission of Coverage
  
• FYI: Health Insurance Corporations and their Lobby Funds
  
• The AMA Does Not Represent Us
  
• Top Ten Enemies of Single Payer
• How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, and What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
  
• Insurance Industry: The Parasite that Feeds on US Public Health System
• Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
• Health Overhall Could Stall Over Government Role
• Talking about Health Reform, but Not about a Cure
  
• Power Players: With Health Sector's Money Supporting Him, Baucus Offers Prescription for Reform
• Et tu, Atul?  Test-Case for a Single-Payer Hypothesis
• Health Care Industry in Talks to Shape Policy
• Healthcare is "a Privilege... Not a Right": GOP Lawmaker

• The Push for Single-Payer in Colorado
  

• The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home (a must-read for anyone struggling to pay medical bills)
• Senate Panel Hears of Health Insurers' Wrongs
• Ex-Executive Accuses Insurance Giant of "Purging" Customers
  
• Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of U.S. Bankruptcies
• Time for Single Payer: How Insurers Pass Risks and Costs to You
• The Thoroughly Modern Medical School (cartoon)
• Private Health Insurance Study Finds Desparity Between Profits, Coverage
• Health Insurance CEOs Pocket Average $14.2 Million
• 14,000 Insured Lose Health Coverage Every Day
• Struggling States Cut Healthcare for Poor Before Obama Can Bolster Coverage
• US Healthcare Costs More, Delivers Less
• The Wrong Place to Be Chronically Ill
• Big Pharma Gone Wild
  
• 'Medicare Advantage' a Misnomer: Taxpayers Foot Bill for Private Insurance to Inadequately Cover Seniors' Health Care
  
• Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty
  
• As Budgets Tighten, More People Decide Medical Care Can Wait
  
• Nonprofit Hospitals, Once for the Poor, Strike it Rich
• Co-Payments Soar for Drugs with High Prices
• Texas Insurance Premiums Jump 40 Percent from 2001 to 2005
• Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough
• Even the Insured Feel Strain of Health Costs
• Health Care Crisis at Tipping Point
• Health Insurer Tied Bonuses to Dropping Sick Policyholders
• Hospital Attemps Deportation of Woman with Inadequate Insurance
• Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees
• Employer-Provided Insurance Continues to Decline
• GM's Pain Hits Retirees
• Firefighters and Prescription Drugs
• Insurers Don't Like to "Share"
• A City Where Hospitals Are As Ill As the Patients
• Insurance Fraud: One for the Redundancy Department?
• Employer Health Costs to Rise 10% This Year, Study Says
• Health Plans Say They'll Risk Losing Members to Protect Profit Margins
• Doctors-Insurers Confrontation Heats Up
• Losing Ground: How the Loss of Adequate Health Insurance is Burdening Working Families
• Consumers Cut Health Spending, As Economic Downturn Takes Toll
• Health Care Costs Increase Strain, Studies Find
• Healthcare Bottom-Line: Workers Pay More
• How the American Health Care System Got That Way
• American Health Care Since 1994: The Unacceptable Status Quo
• American Healthcare System: Economic Points
  
• Quicky Clinic (comic strip)
  

Healthcare Reform and the 2008 Election

• The 2008 Presidential Candidates' Health Reform Proposals: Choices for America
  
• Dr. Don McCanne Contrasts the Healthcare Proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama
• Obama Health Plan Outperforms McCain Plan in Coverage and Efficiency
  
• Pushing the Single-Payer Solution
• Health Policy Placebos
• Voters' Guide to Single Payer Supporters
• Diagnosing "Guaranteed Health Care" in Democrats' Platform
• Just Words? What the Democratic Platform Really Says About Health Care, and What that Says About Barack Obama

The Plight of the Uninsured

• Uninsured Face Avalanche of Health Costs
• Uninsured Children in America (Even with SCHIP)
• Health Care Access a National Scandal
• 'Myth' of Uninsured Overcrowding ERs Debunked, Study Says
• U.S. Should Not Out-Source Patients
  
• Report Looks at Life and Death of Uninsured: Lack of Diagnosis or Treatment Claims and Estimated Seven Texans Each Day
• Millions with Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment
• Health Care Horror Stories
• Hope for Patients Who Lost Policies
• A Grim Diagnosis for Texas Children
• University of Texas Medical Branch Cutting Indigent-Care Program Funds by $24 Million
• The Uninsured Often Donate Organs, But Rarely Receive Them
  
• Within the System of No-System
• Lower Costs Lure U.S. Patients Abroad for Treatment
  

• Britain's National Health Service: Simple, Sensible and Civilized
• Turning Japanese?  We Could Do a Lot Worse
• Japanese Pay Less for More Health Care
  
• Mythbusting Canadian Health Care
• Debunking Canadian Health Care Myths
  
• Health Care for All (series on National Public Radio)
  
• Dutch Health System Rated Best, U.S. Worst—Polls
• How to Heal the World
• Yikes!!! I'm a Slave to Socialized Medicine
  

Healthcare for Veterans

• Vets Recoil at Idea of Using Insurance for Service Injuries
• Iraq, Afghanistan VA Patients Exceed 400,000
• Crisis at the VA as Benefits Claims Backlog Nearly Tops One Million
  
• 300,000 Vets Have Mental Problems, 320,000 Had Brain Injuries
  
• The Truth about Veteran Suicides
  
• The Soldiers Project: Mental Health Care Confidential
  
• Veterans Not Entitled to Mental Health Care, US Lawyers Argue
  
• Veterans Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA
  
• Veterans Without Health Care
  

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