Health Care: News & Notes

I Demand an Investigation to Stop Hospital Horror Stories

  An Open Letter to The New York Times   Dear Anemona Hartocollis, In 2007, our daughters were 22 years old.  And if someone had drugged, handcuffed, and left my…

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Occupy the Nonprofit Hospitals

Part 1:  The Outrage:  Money, money everywhere but just a drop for health care   New Jersey has a handful of trauma hospitals.  For two decades my mother worked in…

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Lynn Goes To Yale

I admire Lynn’s brand of activism as much as I do her wonderful essays. She’s a great ambassador for the Single-Payer movement.



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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – Health Care BC (for the love of Universal Single-Payer)

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is all thumbs!

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Need a $500 or $1000 Tax Deduction for a Good Cause?

Need a tax deduction for a good cause?

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Hospital Accounting: It’s Complicated

 For the Love of Universal Health Care Some time ago I received a letter from my employer regarding its health insurance policy which said there would be some changes to…

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When You Have “Reform” Things Should Get Better

Corporations are the only ones benefiting from healthcare “reform.”

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Two Docs React To Obamacare

There is more hope that maybe we can beat the school yard bully in Pennsylvania first, but only if we all join together. This is what we should all be doing now.



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The Specter of Bigotry in Health Care Demonstrations

Anti-reform demonstrators at the nation’s capitol yelled racial slurs against three Black congressmen, including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who had marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



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Single-Payer Is Good For Doctors

Future generations of Americans will credit you as the fathers of our nation’s exemplary, civilized healthcare system, a system in which every person receives healthcare. Pennsylvania will be the state that blazes the trail our nation finally takes to provide civilized healthcare for all.



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