Citations with the tag: SINGLE-payer health care
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- Re: A Cross-Sectional Study of Private Psychiatric Practices Under a Single-Payer Health Care System.
Smith, Derryck H. // Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; May98, Vol. 43 Issue 5, p524A letter to the editor concerning a cross-sectional study of private psychiatric practices under a single-payer health care system is presented.
- Author Responds.
Anderson, Keith // Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; May98, Vol. 43 Issue 5, p524A response by Keith Anderson to a letter to the editor regarding the comments of Dr. Smith on their article concerning a cross-sectional study of private psychiatric practices under a single-payer health care system is presented.
- Senate-hopeful Meek does about-face on single-payer.
Swanson, Ian; Blade, Aaron // Hill; 10/23/2009, Vol. 16 Issue 124, p1The article reports on the decision of Florida representative Kendrick Meek to remove his name from a bill in the U.S. trade agreements to create a single-payer health insurance system in the U.S.
- Letter to the editor.
Brown, Larry L.; Carbon, Glen // St. Clair Journal; 6/8/2011, Vol. 6 Issue 25, pA7A letter to the editor is presented about the need of a single-payer health care system in the U.S.
- Single-payer state.
Collier, Roger // CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal; 7/12/2011, Vol. 183 Issue 10, pE655The article reports on the initiative of the state government to pass legislation on single-payer health care system in Vermont.
- Support Single-Payer Health Care.
Walworth, Mary // ASHA Leader; 9/22/2009, Vol. 14 Issue 12, p4A letter to the editor is presented discussing the role of speech-language professionals in working for single-payer health care.
- Letter to the editor.
Brown, Larry L. // Granite City Press-Record; 6/8/2011, Vol. 53 Issue 46, pA7A letter to the editor is presented in response to the need for the U.S. to adopt a single-payer health care system.
- Do Individual Mandates Matter?
Brown, Larry L. // Policy & Practice (19426828); Mar2008, Vol. 66 Issue 1, p36The author focuses on the significance of single-payer system to achieve universal coverage in the U.S. He presented a strong evidence that voluntary measures alone can affect the large numbers of people uninsured thus the government will have a difficulty redirecting current spending. He also...
- understanding the trade-offs of the Canadian health system.
Halvorson, George C. // hfm (Healthcare Financial Management); Oct2007, Vol. 61 Issue 10, p82The author reflects whether the U.S. should adopt the Canadian single-payer healthcare system to achieve a universal healthcare coverage for all its citizens. He discusses trade-offs on healthcare of Canada's pricing model, prescription drug coverage, and administrative costs. The author...
- Huge victory for single payer ballot question.
Halvorson, George C. // Massachusetts Nurse Advocate; Jan2009, Vol. 80 Issue 1, p2The article reports on the huge victory of the local ballot initiative that supports single payer health care in Massachusetts. It is stated that activists in ten state representative districts have placed a non-binding question on their ballots to press the case for an adjust health care...
- Nurses' Guide to Single Payer Health Care: Patient safety and quality of life at stake.
Eaton, Sandy // Massachusetts Nurse Advocate; Sep2010, Vol. 81 Issue 7, p2The article reports on the launch of the Massachusetts Campaign for Health Care Justice by Mass-Care and Jobs with Justice in Massachusetts in 2010. It states that the campaign will have a non-binding, single payer queries on the ballot in November in 14 representative districts. The query will...
- Not better than Ezra.
Mahaney, Colleen // Columbia Journalism Review; Nov/Dec2012, Vol. 51 Issue 4, p8A letter to the editor is presented about journalist Ezra Klein, his fact-based reporting, and his views about the feasibility of passing single-payer health care legislation in the U.S., in response to the article "Not better than Ezra" by Matt Welch in the September/October 2012 issue.
- Witnesses to Medicare in Saskatchewan: Medicare Workshop at the University of askatchewan--Wednesday, 20 May 2007.
BLAKENEY, ALLAN // Canadian Bulletin of Medical History; 2009, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p527Allan Blakeney reminisces on the public relations battle launched by the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, and fuelled by most local media, when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government passed legislation in 1961 to deliver on their election promise of a...
- A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services.
BOAN, JACK // Canadian Bulletin of Medical History; 2009, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p541A personal narrative is presented of the author's experiences as a health care administrator in Canada during the implementation of Canada's Medicare national health insurance program and the organization and management of the Royal Commission on Health Services.
- Vermont healthcare plan criticized by single-payer allies.
Pecquet, Julian // Hill; 4/8/2011, Vol. 18 Issue 48, p12The article reports that Vermont's proposed healthcare reform has been criticized by the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program on the grounds that the bill falls short for single-payer reform.
- SinglePayer Plan Reintroduced in California.
Hwang, Lucia // Registered Nurse: Journal of Patient Advocacy; Mar2007, Vol. 103 Issue 2, p6The article reports that California State Senator Sheila Kuehl reintroduced the SB 840 bill on January 27, 2007. The bill would establish single-payer healthcare coverage for the state's residents. Under the legislation, all Californians would have health insurance paid for through a combination...
- WRAP-UP REPORT.
Hwang, Lucia // Registered Nurse: Journal of Patient Advocacy; Mar2009, Vol. 105 Issue 2, p8The article discusses news of interest to patient advocate registered nurses in the United States. Portland, Maine residents and the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) told Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield that a single payer health insurance system is...
- WRAP-UP REPORT.
Hwang, Lucia // Registered Nurse: Journal of Patient Advocacy; Jun2009, Vol. 105 Issue 5, p9The article offers U.S. nursing news briefs. Arizonans showed their support for a single-payer health care plan during a June 30, 2009 demonstration. A tentative agreement was reached between the Maine State Nurses Association and Mount Desert Island Hospital regarding a three-year employment...
- Single-Payer Fight Moves to States.
Mello, Felicia // National Nurse; Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 106 Issue 1, p5No abstract available.
- Nurses Pivotal to "One Payer States" Collaboration.
D. S. // National Nurse; Sep2011, Vol. 107 Issue 7, p17No abstract available.
- A brief history of Mass-Care.
Eaton, Sandy // Massachusetts Nurse Advocate; Apr2008, Vol. 79 Issue 4, p2The article focuses on the legislative bill for Single Payer Health Care in Massachusetts. It informs that Mass-Care, a coalition of organizations that supports the single payer solution, has filed legislation to create the Massachusetts Health Care Trust since 1996. According to a study, a...
- Single-Payer Health Care Systems: The Roles and Responsibilities of the Public and Private Sectors.
Munn, Jeffrey d.; Wozniak, Lynne // Benefits Quarterly; 2007 Third Quarter, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p7Health care systems all over the world are experiencing some change as they look for a new balance between supply and demand. This article provides context for the U.S. health care financing debate by examining the health care systems of five other countries: Canada, the United Kingdom,...
- Left out of the discussion.
Blesch, Gregg // Modern Healthcare; 6/8/2009, Vol. 39 Issue 23, p10The article focuses on studies publicized by the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) on single-payer health system in the U.S. The two studies are said to bolster the argument that any system that includes insurance companies may fail in both of its primary pursuits, such as to...
- November Is Coming And Single-Payer Proposals Could Follow.
Bannister, Fred // National Underwriter / Life & Health Financial Services; 6/5/2006, Vol. 110 Issue 22, p27The article points out that the November 2006 elections in the U.S. could generate a new climate for benefits brokers and health insurance company executives. Proposals for establishing a national universal single-payer health care system are gaining in popularity. Possible forms of the...
- Labor Campaign for Single-Payer.
Bannister, Fred // Massachusetts Nurse Advocate; Mar2010, Vol. 81 Issue 2, p2The article focuses on the letter from the Labor Campaign for Single Payer, nurses, doctors and other health care advocates to President Barack Obama on better approaches to health care reform that bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured and bring down premiums in the U.S.
- Quality nurse staffing through single-payer.
Albert, Marilyn // Massachusetts Nurse Advocate; May2010, Vol. 81 Issue 4, p2The article reports on the single payer financing system for paying nurses staff in healthcare facilities in Massachusetts. It states that single payer system funding for the patient care would be budgeted on the basis of inputs from health care workers and unions. There would be a public entity...
- Lifetime Subsidies in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets with Community Rating.
Luke B LC Connelly; H HS Shelton Brown // Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance - Issues & Practice; Oct2006, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p705This paper considers the problem of inducing low-risk individuals of all ages to buy private health insurance in Australia. Our proposed subsidy scheme improves upon the age-based penalty scheme under the current �Australian Lifetime Cover� (LTC) scheme. We generate an alternative subsidy...
- �Steeping� of Health Expenditure Profiles.
Florian FB Buchner; J�rgen JW Wasem // Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance - Issues & Practice; Oct2006, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p581If health care expenditure for the elderly grows faster than for younger people, the expenditure profiles become �steeper� � we call that �steeping�. Three instruments for measuring �steeping� are presented: (1) trend of the relation between per capita expenditure of the old and...
- Are Private Health Insurance Subscribers Unsatisfied with the Spanish National Health System?
Joan JC Costa-Font; Mireia MJ Jofre-Bonet // Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance - Issues & Practice; Oct2006, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p650The percentage of population having supplementary private health insurance (PHI) is related to the perceived quality of the National Health System (NHS). In turn, PHI purchase decisions influence the NHS quality given that the number of PHI subscribers determines NHS quality indicators related...
- The Interaction of Public and Private Health Insurance: Ireland as a Case Study.
Brian BN Nolan // Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance - Issues & Practice; Oct2006, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p633In Ireland, the public health system has a symbiotic relationship with private health insurance not seen in other European countries. Everyone has entitlement to public hospital care from the state, but half the population now pay for private health insurance. The insured avail of �private�...
- Single Payer Case.
Brian BN Nolan // Social Policy; Spring2009, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p34The article focuses on the benefits of a single-payer health care reform system. It states that a national single-payer heath care system would generate 2.6 million new jobs into the U.S. economy by expanding and upgrading Medicare to cover everyone. It mentions that projections from the...
- Inaccurate terminology.
Swartz, John R. // Modern Healthcare; 9/5/2011, Vol. 41 Issue 36, p24A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article about the 100 most influential people in healthcare in the August 22, 2011 issue.
- Single Payer Ahead � Cost Control and the Evolving Vermont Model.
Wallack, Anya Rader // New England Journal of Medicine; 8/18/2011, Vol. 365 Issue 7, p584The article offers information on a health care reform legislation that was signed into law by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. The law puts the state on course to implement a single-payer health care system. Under the law, a Health Benefit Exchange was created to be used as the administrative...
- Government, health care don't mix.
Gibbons, Shawn // Indianapolis Business Journal; 10/23/2006, Vol. 27 Issue 33, p13The article recommends the administration of market-driven health initiatives in the United States to restore competition to the health care market, such as refundable health insurance tax credits. Health tax credits is a way to extend private health insurance coverage to uninsured people and...
- Protecting Households From Catastrophic Health Spending.
Ke Xu; Evans, David B.; Carrin, Guido; Aguilar-Rivera, Ana Mylena; Musgrove, Philip; Evans, Timothy // Health Affairs; Jul/Aug2007, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p972Many countries rely heavily on patients' out-of-pocket payments to providers to finance their health care systems. This prevents some people from seeking care and results in financial catastrophe and impoverishment for others who do obtain care. Surveys in eighty-nine countries covering 89...
- Single-Minded.
Cohn, Jonathan // New Republic; 7/30/2008, Vol. 239 Issue 1, p10The article discusses the single-payer health care system, both its high points and its drawbacks. According to the author, while the single-payer system offers choice of doctor, good health care, and customer satisfaction, the system spends millions of dollars on marketing, profit-making, and...
- Vermont Shows How to Cover Everyone.
Gluckman, Amy // Yes!; Spring2012, Issue 61, p27The article focuses on the implementation of single-payer health care in Vermont, New England in the U.S. It states that single-payer health care or Medicare for all is a universal health care coverage with the government as insurer. Moreover, a single-payer plan will be managed by an...
- Balance shifts left, anger grows.
Bond, Patrick // Green Left Weekly; 7/1/2009, Issue 800, p23The article focuses on the issues relative to the economic crisis experienced by South Africa. It mentions that the deep-rooted crisis started since the time in which the neoliberal policies have caused South Africa to be more unstable, the 6.4% decline on the gross domestic product (GDP), and...
- We're All Chicagoans Now.
Schmitt, Mark // American Prospect; Oct2008, Vol. 19 Issue 10, p9This article discusses an argument raised by a centrist faction that programs appropriate to the modern economy should be built around consumer choice, market mechanisms and incentives in the tax code, rather than having comprehensive, universal federal programs like Medicare. As stated, even...
- Canadian medicare's birthday party turning into fractious affair.
Godkin, David // Medical Device Daily; 10/12/2012, Vol. 16 Issue 198, p1The article reports on the call for a major reform of Canada's publicly funded, single-payer healthcare system during the 50th anniversary of Canadian medicare in 2012. According to critics, the healthcare system must be overhauled due to increasing healthcare costs. Liberal Party health critic...
- 'Surprising' Conclusion to Fixing U.S. Health Care.
Nelson, Greg // Financial Executive; Mar2009, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p64The article supports the idea of the U.S. providing national health care through a single-payer model based on the federal Medicare program. In the U.S. roughly 30% of health-care spending goes towards administrative costs, whereas for Medicare the figure is closer to 3%. In the author's view...
- How equitable are single-payer health care systems?
Fradin, Gary // Employee Benefit Adviser; Jul2010, Vol. 8 Issue 7, p75The article examines the extent of people's access to health care in a single-payer health care system. The book "Lives at Risk," by John Goodman, claims that access to health care tends to correlate with income. The highest ratio of medical services per capita in the wealthiest area around...
- AND THE SURVEY SAYS�.
Fradin, Gary // U.S. Catholic; Sep2008, Vol. 73 Issue 9, p31The article presents the results of a 2008 survey of readers of the "U.S. Catholics" magazine about their views on the health care system in the U.S. Majority agrees that universal health care is a moral obligation for Catholics. For 41% of survey respondents, the best health care solution for...
- Why Current Reimbursement Rates Are Inefficient.
Ziebarth, Nicholas // Health Affairs; Aug2012, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p1911A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "The Many Different Prices Paid To Providers And The Flawed Theory Of Cost Shifting: Is It Time For A More Rational All-Payer System?" by Uwe E. Reinhardt in the November 2011 issue of the journal.
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Trenkler, Richard C.; Woolverton, Jonas // Las Vegas Business Press (10712186); 8/3/2009, Vol. 26 Issue 31, pP24This section presents letters to the editor in response to articles in previous issues including one about health care reform and another promoting a single-payer health care legislation in the U.S.
- Our stake in rebuilding the health care system.
Trenkler, Richard C.; Woolverton, Jonas // Massachusetts Nurse Advocate; Sep2007, Vol. 78 Issue 8, p2The author reflects on the efforts made by healthcare professionals to rebuild the health care system in Massachusetts. She argues that the downturn in the industry drives them to form the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care (MASS-CARE). She believes that health care reform must...
- Liberal Media Let Obama Deny Pushing Government Health Care.
Jeffrey, Terence P. // Human Events; 6/22/2009, Vol. 65 Issue 22, p1The author focuses on the statement of U.S. President Barack Obama that he does not prefer the establishment of a single-payer health care system in the country. In his statement to the American Medical Association, Obama has stressed that he intends to build on U.S. traditions despite the...
- WHAT AILS DOCTORS.
Martin, Edward // Business North Carolina; Nov2009, Vol. 29 Issue 11, p42The article discusses the health care debate in the U.S. from the point of view of doctors in North Carolina. It reports that though they agree that the system is unsustainable and needs change, they are divided on the extent that change should occur. It states that on one end, there is the idea...
- Health care fix.
Dorrien, Gary // Christian Century; 7/14/2009, Vol. 126 Issue 14, p12The author discusses how a single-payer insurance system is not being considered for U.S. health care reforms. He suggests a single-payer system could function like Medicaid but would not violate the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution or constitute socialized medicine. He comments on how...
- Thank Heaven We Don't Have Canadian Style Healthcare #1.
WOOD, KAY // Moderate Voice; 8/14/2012, p11The article offers the author's insights on the single-payer healthcare system in Canada. He mentions an article by Bill Mann which discusses the significance of the system among Canadians. He mentions several falsehood associated to the healthcare system mentioned in the article such as the...
