Medicare-for-all would keep everyone covered by Aaron E. Carroll, M.D. | The Indianapolis Star
One year ago, when the U.S. Census Bureau released its figures on Americans lacking health insurance in 2005, I wrote a piece here describing the sad state of the health care system in America. Recently, the 2006 numbers were released, and things have only gotten worse.
Jim Winkler spoke at a January 24, 2007, press conference hosted by Healthcare-NOW! at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Here is his statement. How to Get Healthy
Will Healthcare Timidity Trip Up Hillary Clinton? by Jeff Cohen
Edith Kenna from HCHP Fort Wayne has written a great Op-Ed piece entitled "Insurance is the problem: Health care industry at fault." Read the full article . . .
Health Savings Accounts
Health savings accounts (HSA’s) are the last great hope of the private insurance industry. Here are two
very concise and readable links to articles pointing out the problems of HSA’s. First, Hendrick
Hertzberg in the New Yorker gives a brilliant critique:www.hchp.info/consumption.html .
Second, Sara Collins of the Commonwealth Fund, testifying before Congress, makes a strong case:
www.cmwf.org
Read HCHP's position on HSA's and Indiana's POWER accounts.
Medicare for All, HR 676, has been reintroduced by Rep. John Conyers. The time is NOW to contact our national legislators and ask him/her to sign on as a co-sponsor. The toll-free number to call is 1-866-338-1015.
Ask to be connected to the office of your representative.
For more information go to the HCHP web site: Legislation or the Conyers web site: summary of HR 676
My view: Aaron E. Carroll, Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine
The only health-care solution: single-payer system September 10, 2006 (Indy Star) The new uninsured statistics released recently by the U.S. Census provide a sobering reminder of the failures of the U.S. health-care system. In Indiana the number of uninsured has risen to 871,000: Nearly one of every seven residents lacks coverage. Even for those lucky enough to be insured, ever-skimpier private policies helped push an estimated 28,000 Indiana families into medical bankruptcy in 2001. As a physician who faces our state's health-care crisis day in and day out, I support a single-payer "Medicare for All" system for Indiana and for the nation. Read the full article. . .
Doctorfights for universal health care
Lack of medical insurance killing 18,000 Americans a year, local physician says (Dr. Rob Stone) by Dann Denny
www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_08_29_a_hazard.htm Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink) wrote 'The Moral Hazard Myth' in the 8/29/05 issue of the New Yorker. The subtitle is 'The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.' This is a very readable article and highly recommended.
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Economist Paul Krugman gave a brilliant 25 minute talk on Medicare for All. This is from a radio show. You can read the text of the speech at http://www.pkarchive.org/column/061305.html If this leaves you hungry for more, check out Paul Krugman's piece in the New York Review of Books March 23, 2006: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18802
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http://www.pnhp.org/media/woolhandler_counterspin1.mp3 Listen to Dr. Steffie Woolhandler talk about the Massachusetts healthcare bill on Counterspin. The Massachusetts bill leaves a lot to be desired, but it has certainly raised the profile of universal health insurance as a political issue.
http://pnhp.org/bankruptcy/bankruptcy.smil
Listen to the NPR report on medical bankruptcy featuring Dr. Steffie Woolhandler of PNHP."
