Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. November 20, 2008. The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
Julia Eisman, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. November 10, 2008. "With the Obama victory, the question is no longer whether we'll pursue comprehensive healthcare reform, but when and in what form."
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. November 10, 2008. If health care reform is done in a way that contains costs and lifts quality, it will take time and serious seed money.
Dean Baker, Huffington Post. November 6, 2008. Extending health care insurance can be an effective stimulus that will provide an immediate boost to the economy.
Ella Hushagen, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. November 3, 2008. A recent study shows that treating health insurance like an item on eBay would reduce costs for the healthy and raise them for everyone else.
Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. October 31, 2008. Giving Americans universal access to health care will undermine some of the deepest and most persistent myths of the conservative worldview.
Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future. October 21, 2008. Instead of working to guarantee health care for everyone, conservatives are pushing for a policy that will deprive people of coverage.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. October 20, 2008. A new report reveals the degree to which a child's health is determined by the hand he or she draws at birth.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. October 19, 2008. Certain antipsychotics are leaving legions of children and elderly in chemical straightjackets for treatment of conditions they didn't even have.
Sherice Perry, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. October 13, 2008. People who perceive some form of discrimination from their health care providers are less likely to seek preventive care.
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. October 13, 2008. A look at how Obama and McCain's health care plans would play out in ordinary Americans' lives.
RJ Eskow, Huffington Post. October 11, 2008. When a candidate suddenly, almost whimsically changes the way he proposes to handle $1.3 trillion, it's time to get nervous.
Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. October 6, 2008. The current bailout is costing us only a third of what we pay each year for chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes and obesity.
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. October 6, 2008. Some 25 million Americans may be underinsured; that is, their insurance, good or bad, does not cover all their medical care.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 3, 2008. One plan would cover 34 million of the nation's projected 67 million uninsured people in 10 years, the other just 2 million.
Ella Hushagen, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. September 29, 2008. Medical debt is closely tied to the mortgage crisis that's pushing working families out of their homes and our economy to the brink of collapse.
