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.
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. September 29, 2008. Neither candidate is talking much about the people who fall through gaps in our public safety net. And neither plan is truly universal.
James Ridgeway, Mother Jones. September 9, 2008. Remember Bush's signature health care initiative? I need it to survive -- and that's not very reassuring.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 28, 2008. Though Obama's health plan is far better than McCain's, it still only tinkers around the edges. What we need is a system overhaul.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. August 2, 2008. By starting with Medicare and showing what can be done, reformers enhance their chances of winning the larger war.
Jonathan Cohn, The American Prospect. May 29, 2008. Medicare is expensive because our health system is costly and inefficient. The cure? Affordable universal health coverage.
Ezra Klein, The American Prospect. March 18, 2008. Sens. Wyden and Bennett are starting to build a bipartisan consensus around health care -- despite their opposing political views.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. March 11, 2008. Here's an obvious solution to the health care crisis: why not cut the Pentagon's massive budget to fund health care for all?
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. January 14, 2008. Is Washington hopelessly gridlocked? Not when the rich and powerful need help.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. September 4, 2007. Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.
Prema Polit, AlterNet. April 11, 2007. In an attempt to cut costs, Medicare has been denying coverage of power wheelchairs to people with disabilities who can't leave home without them.
David Moberg, In These Times. March 12, 2007. Our health care system has gotten so bad that even Republicans acknowledge that it's broken -- so what's the best way to deal with it?
Elana Levin, AlterNet: PEEK. February 6, 2007. Elana Levin: The press has failed to notice that the President's proposed 2008 budget includes a plan to do away with Medicare.
Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet. January 16, 2007. Our $2 trillion healthcare industry is not only unhealthy, it is unsustainable. Why universal Medicare is the way to get universal healthcare without collapsing the system.
