Tag Archives: single-payer

California Health Reform, Minus Single-Payer

Posted on 05/20/2009 by Peter Hart

The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib wrote a piece today (5/20/09–subscription required) that offers California as a model for understanding the difficulties in overhauling the healthcare system: California's experience, in fact, represented a kind of trial run for the healthcare … Continue reading →

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As Good as It Gets on Corporate TV

Posted on 05/09/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

It is quite telling that, even considering how in Ed Schultz's May 7 MSNBC interview of Physician for a National Health Program Margaret Flowers and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, he "slaps a gratuitous insult on the heroines of Code Pink" and … Continue reading →

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PBS Distorts Global Healthcare Options

Posted on 04/07/2009 by Jim Naureckas

A recent Frontline documentary (3/31/09) presented mandatory for-profit healthcare as the only alternative to the current U.S. healthcare system, suggesting that this was the system all other developed nations use–even though the documentary was a sequel to an earlier Frontline … Continue reading →

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Media Side With 'Cognoscenti' Over 'Broad Support for Single-Payer'

Posted on 03/09/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

In the latest installment of a Columbia Journalism Review series on "special interest groups… at Obama's table" and "how the media are covering them," Trudy Lieberman (CJR.org, 3/6/09) reports that Saul Friedman, who writes a popular column called Gray Matters … Continue reading →

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