"Regardless of what it is called, the ultimate health-care-delivery system would be run by government bureaucrats who would make medical decisions based on politics and budgets." ...

For years, some Democrats have proposed a “single payer” or “Medicare for all” health system as the solution to the problem of millions of Americans going without health insurance coverage. Lack of ...

The key issue in the emerging national health care debate is the role of the federal government. While some Members of Congress favor a “single-payer” national health insurance system—”Medicare for ...

It takes only three letters to explain why the idea of single payer health insurance keeps getting shot down quickly in the California Legislature: EDD. No program in state, city or local government ...

The efforts to establish a public option or a single-payer health care system in the U.S. have died down for now. But those efforts have moved on to the state level, and two people who are studying ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I was interested to read columnist Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s view of the recent ...

Karl Marx could have been forecasting the future of California when he said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce. The tragedy is a state budget of $225.9 billion this year, ...

The state Assembly’s Health Committee advanced Assembly Bill 2200 this week. The bill would ban private health insurance and force all state residents into “CalCare,” a government-run health plan.

HELENA - Supporters of a system of national health insurance for all citizens are holding rallies in six Montana cities Friday, to urge Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to consider it as a possible reform.

When President Obama convened a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, N.M., last month, he wanted to talk about credit card reform. But many in the crowd had a different agenda. "So many people go bankrupt ...

I agree with a recent letter regarding health care spending. This country needs a single-payer insurance like most other countries. Not socialized medicine, but socialized insurance, every citizen ...

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