Ninety-two percent of the almost 2,000 physicians who responded to a Jackson Healthcare survey of physicians agree with Dr. Chad Hewitt. The number one way to reduce health care costs may be tort reform. While Dr. Hewitt, a podiatrist friend of mine in the Kansas City area...
"Labor Boss Acknowledges Own ‘Lambourghini Health Plan’ at Single-Payer Strategy Conference" For those of you who need more evidence to explain how the nation’s Big Three Automakers ended up in such financial strife, take a look at this video I shot as the only...
Michael Lighty, the former national director of the Democratic Socialists of America who now serves as public policy director of the ultra-liberal California Nurses Association, spent 10 minutes Saturday afternoon addressing a group of roughly 100 single-payer health care...
Sometimes experience speaks volumes. Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter. The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the...
“Number one on my list continues to be the insurance companies, the for-profit insurance companies,” said Dr. Quentin Young early in his speech during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. The...
In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didn’t present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. She did,...
Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer. Speaking during...
This past summer, angry gun-toting protesters held racists signs and spewed false claims about the public option and President Obama. In contrast, the pro-public option protesters, Wealthcare, held an...
Each time the public option is down for the count, it rises again. But does this mean it is a done deal, or are there still pitfalls ahead for the plan? "The resurrection of the public...
During the health care debate this year, we have heard several healthy politicians about how a public health care option will cause "death." The list includes former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, Sen. Chuck...
Earlier this year, Alaska governor Sarah Palin claimed that the House health reform bill would create “death panels.” Even though this was thoroughly debunked, that didn't stop conservatives from...
The public option, or federal insurance option, is rising anew, with a creative and powerful idea of allowing states to "opt out": It just may be that a creative states' rights spin...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that three versions of the health care reform bill are to be submitted to the CBO. They all contain the "public option". "Today we stand closer than ever to...
Some 200 patriotic citizens lined one side of Highway K early this afternoon at the intersection of Highways K & N in O’Fallon, Mo. Their signs told the story of their passionate disdain for socialism,...
"The odds are now very high that some form of public health insurance option will be included on the final bill when it emerges from a House-Senate Conference Committee later this fall and is ultimately passed by...