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United
States Spends Most On Health, But France No. 1 In Treatment
By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press, 6/20/2000
The United States spends more per person on health care than any
other country, yet in overall quality its care ranks 37th in the world,
says a World Health Organization analysis. It concluded that France
provides the globe's best health care.
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The
Efficiency of Universal Health Care
By Robert Kuttner
It is unconscionable that managed care systems are second-guessing
doctors, particularly for treatments that are standard rather than
experimental. But if we want to spend our available dollars more
efficiently, the first thing we need is a universal system. Such a
system would be both more cost-effective and more accountable.
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Open Letter to Nancy Johnson
By Cathy Itri
"[T]he publicity surrounding your continued dependency on PAC
contributions from the likes of Oxford Health Plans and Cigna
Corporation to finance your re-election campaigns, is creating doubt in
the minds of many of your constituents as to just where your loyalty
lays..."
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Bill
Bradley: Fake Left, Run Right
By Ramon Castellblanch
Hartford Courant, October 15, 1999
Bradley's plan would endanger long-term care, make Medicaid into a
private insurance bonanza and make the uninsured law-breakers. No wonder
that the Heritage Foundation and the HIAA cheer his proposal.
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Sick
to Death of Managed Care
Hartford Advocate, October 21, 1999
Costs are rising, options are shrinking, and more and more
people want to change the system.
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Universal Healthcare? Not from Bradley
By David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.,
co-founders of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Former Senator Bill Bradley's health plan would deliver billions to
insurance companies and HMOs. But it won't deliver the universal
healthcare that Americans deserve.
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The
Case for Universal Health Care in the United States
By John R. Battista, M.D. and Justine McCabe, Ph.D
Outline of Talk Given To The Association of State Green Parties, Moodus,
Connecticut on June 4, 1999. An excellent article that is
particularly strong in countering the "myths" that Universal
Health Care is unaffordable, unworkable, and unacceptable in the U.S.
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Why Doesn't America Have Universal Health Care?
By Gerald Cavanaugh
It is not for lack of effort. But each time reform
has been attempted, powerful forces have managed to block or pervert the
good intentions, to the extent that one historian labels the whole
process "an exercise in failed reform."
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