Fightin’ The Blues

On a cold and rainy December 2, while the Senate in Washington was slogging along debating health reform, a remnant troupe of public-option supporting Organizing for America stalwarts stood outside the corporate headquarters of WellPoint, Inc. in the center of downtown Indianapolis.  Minutes before their demonstration started, three single payer activists slipped in and out [...]

Is the House bill better than nothing (continued)

  More comments from worthy commentators – Jonathan Cohn, a highly respected single payer advocate and writer, in The New Republic writes about why we should support the bill and urge its passage in the Senate, and Dennis Kucinich discusses why he voted against the House Bill.  For commentary from HCHP’s own Dr Aaron Carroll, [...]

Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?

What to make of the health care bill passed late in the night on 11/7? Below are two (long) commentaries by writers I greatly respect.  Marcia Angell is the iconic former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a stalwart single payer advocate.  Maggie Mahar is a thoughtful non-single-payer healthcare writer, the author [...]

Time to Play the Single Payer Card

Rob Stone MD  March 30,2009 “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”  - Ghandi A health care reform bill out of Congress by the end of the summer?  An end to our national nightmare within five months?  The health insurance industry is banking on an Obama-Kennedy-Baucus bailout [...]