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Articles of Interest
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us
February 20, 2012
This article by Steven Brill was published in Time magazine in Feb. 2012, with the subtitle "How outrageous pricing and egregious profits are destroying our health care." It is long but well worth the read, and has garnered a large volume of responses - from industry apologists, hurting citizens, and doctors who have been observing the deadly effects of this profiteering on patients for decades.
Insurers still in control in Obamacare
April 15, 2012
Obamacare is the nickname for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA for short. It has been a target for criticisms that range from valid concerns to groundless fear mongering, and soon the Supreme Court will decide whether the mandate to buy insurance is constitutional. But there is one fundamental problem with the law that is rarely mentioned.
GOP attorney general suing over ACA supports single payer
March 30, 2012
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, a Republican, who has joined the lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, certainly understands the greatest flaw in the legislation. "The worst thing you can do is give it to an insurance company." Leading to his conclusion, "If the government wants to put forth a policy where they will pay for everything and you won’t have to go through an insurance policy, that’d be a whole lot better."
PNHP statement on the Supreme Court deliberation of the Affordable Care Act
March 26, 2012
The attention to the Supreme Court deliberations on the Affordable Care Act is an unfortunate distraction since, regardless of the outcome, intolerable levels of uninsurance, undersinsurance, and unaffordability will still be with us. We need to replace the Affordable Care Act with single-payer national health insurance, an expanded and improved Medicare for all.
Number of uninsured climbs to highest figure since passage of Medicare, Medicaid
Sept. 13, 2011
Official estimates by the Census Bureau showing an increase of about 1 million in the number of Americans without health insurance in 2010 – to a 45-year high of 49.9 million persons, or 16.3 percent of the population – underscore the urgency of adopting single payer universal health care.
Medicare for All Would Save Billions
March 2012
While providing superior health care, a single-payer system would save as much as $570 billion now wasted on administrative overhead and monopoly profits.
State-Based, Single-Payer Health Care - A Solution for the United States?
March 16, 2011 William C. Hsiao, Ph.D. NEJM
The United Statesfaces two major problems in the health care arena: the swelling ranks of the uninsured and soaring costs. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes great strides in addressing the former problem but offers only modest pilot efforts to address
the latter. Experience in countries such as Taiwan and Canada shows that single-payer health care systems can achieve universal coverage and control inflation of health care costs.
Is a 9.9% increase for all forms of plans coincidental?
December 12, 2010
Buck Consultants has completed a survey of insurers and administrators showing that each and every form of employer-provided health plan is projecting cost increases of 9.9 percent. Is it a mere coincidence that all of these increases are just below the 10 percent threshold for subjecting insurance premium rate increases to federal government review?
Lack of health insurance can be lethal
November 2009
According to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, 44,789 Americans die each year because they do not have health insurance.