Insurance: Maximizing profit while minimizing health care
There was one particular sentence from Bill Moyers's Show on Friday that neatly summed up the problem with our current healthcare system. Marcia Angell said this:We are the only advanced country in the...
View ArticleBill Moyers Journal on health care reform - MUST SEE!!
This episode of Bill Moyers Journal is NOT going to make you happy, but miss it at your peril. The punchline is that unless and until we move to Single Payer, any so called reform will be yet more...
View Article"The President Squandered a Good Opportunity"
So says Dr. Marcia Angell - a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.I offer for discussion an excerpt of a brief...
View ArticleMarcia Angell to Moyers: HCR "shouldn't pass"
Dr. Marcia Angell, a single-payer advocate, doesn't think there's much in the President's plan to feel good about. Her interview on Bill Moyers Journal last night was a must see for those doubting...
View ArticleThere was good medical news yesterday. So now what?
There was good medical news yesterday.Let's take a walk through ME/CFS, XMRV and MS, CCSVI...In 1995, Paolo Zamboni, an Italian surgeon, did not accept common medical answers when his wife was...
View ArticleChronic Tonic: Good Medical News - Now What?
CHRONIC TONIC posts on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST, it is a place to share stories, advice, and information and to connect with others with chronic health conditions and those who care for them. Our...
View ArticleForward to Single Payer Health Care
A new day is breaking for single payer health care. This concept of publicly funded, universal health care, locked out of the national debate six years ago, has made it on stage in the presidential...
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