Why We Need Single-Payer Health Care Here is an article I wrote for Counterpunch in 2007 on some of the bad practices that occur under a U.S. health care system in which insurance companies decide what health care services are allowed. While under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) some new pro-consumer insurance regulations, such as prohibitions
Here’s a story I wrote in 2009 for Common Dreams on the fine work of a group of Oregon doctors who support single-payer health care. I’m reposting it along with a few other articles I’ve written on the health care topic in recent years. Unfortunately, the issues and problems discussed here remain relevant, despite passage of the Affordable Care
With the release of SiCKO in 2007, Michael Moore took discussions of single-payer, government-sponsored health care from the fringes of national political debate to center stage. But it should be obvious by now it will take more than a movie to get the insurance companies out of the health care system. It will also take
Socialist Kshama Sawant’s Win Signals New Openings for Political Change The city of Seattle has long benefited from the fresh ocean breezes that flow in from Puget Sound. Now, a different kind of breeze is sweeping through the state of Washington. It’s the air of political change represented in economist Kshama Sawan’ts new position as
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, OR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM? If there weren’t already enough problems involved in the start-up to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), here come the Little Sisters of the Poor to further complicate matters. Whatever charity work the sisters do, their lawsuit challenging the contraception mandate in the new health care law reveals the fanaticism at
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