Boston Globe: Health care savings with single payer

Tommy Douglas and the Timeline of the Canadian Single Payer system.

By: northsunm32

 A type of single payer system was first introduced in Canada in Saskatchewan a western Canadian province in 1946 and simply covered hospitalisation. Saskatchewan at the time was mainly a rural farming province but it had elected a democratic socialist government the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) led by Tommy Douglas. The CCF was ...

about 1 month ago

Greedy Health Care Special Interests Wage Most Expensive Campaign Ever ...

By: Ross1776

It was reported in the mainstream media that the "stakeholders," as Mr. Obama so politically correctly labeled the commercial health care industry behind much of the provisions of the efforts toward health care deform waged this past year by various special interests groups, was the most expensive lobbying effort to date bar none. If Americans ...

about 1 month ago

EDITORIAL -- Memo to Senate Dems: Public Option Is Not Negotiable

By: SkeeterVT

Holdout Democrats Still Opposed to the 'Public Option' Should Heed This Warning: Any Health-Reform Bill Without It Won't Be Worth the Paper It's Printed On for Those Who Can't Afford Health Insurance; The Time Has Come for Majority Leader Reid to End 'Tyranny of the Intransigent Minority' and Choke Off GOP Filibuster by Invoking ...

17 days ago

Senator Boxer compares Viagra to abortions

By: kimberlydvorak

Yes, liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer of California compared men who use Viagra to women who get abortions and claims she would vote the same way on both issues. Boxer’s claim that insurance companies that cover Viagra for men should also be providing abortions to women sets her apart from most senators. “We don’t tell men that if ...

2 days ago