Healthcare News and Press:

• State health plan rapped - Universal coverage is unacceptable, California Nurses Association says.
  Fresno Bee 04/04/07
• Nurses' Union Stumps for Single-Payer Health System
  California Healthline 04/04/07
• Stockton Board of Education supports a single payer health care system
  California Notes 04/03/07
• Nurses meet over concern for health care
  Bakersfield Californian 04/02/07
• Some Hospitals Call 911 to Save Their Patients
  New York Times 04/02/07
• Medicare for all would be a healthy move
  Newsday 03/31/07
• Uninsured patient billed more than $12,000 for broken rib
  San Francisco Chronicle 03/30/07
• Health insurance options dwindle for self-employed - Group plans are being dropped or becoming unaffordable to many.
  Los Angeles Times 03/27/07
• Editorial: Coverage for all
  Sacramento Bee 03/25/07
• Winds of change carrying cries for health care toward the Hill
  Seattle Times 03/23/07
• Report: Even the insured have trouble paying bills
  USA Today 03/22/07
• Vendors paid during probe - Inspector general's inquiry centers on health contracts
  Chicago Tribune 03/21/07
• Nurses say state's health plan costly to upper middle class
  Associated Press 03/20/07
• UCI on probation again - Radiation oncology training for residents fails to meet standards for accreditation.
  Orange County Register 03/20/07
• The health care crisis
  Washington Times 03/18/07
• Nurses oppose governor's plan
  San Diego Union-Tribune 03/16/07
• Who's uninsured in 2007? It's more than just the poor
  USA Today 03/14/07
• Study Shows Uninsured Receive Less Care and Experience Worse Outcomes
  Kaiser Family Foundation 03/14/07
• HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: NO SOLUTION FOR THE UNINSURED
  California Budget Project 03/14/07
• "Single-Payer" Idea Stays Afloat - Legislative Committee Clears Two Differing Approaches To Health Care Reform
  Hartford Courant 03/14/07
• Hospitals' hidden condition: Medical pricing - $5 aspirin to $5,000 MRIs, seemingly inflated prices give insurers headaches
  Orlando Sentinel 03/12/07
• Most Support U.S. Guarantee of Health Plans
  New York Times 03/02/07
• Study: Uninsured kids fare worse at hospitals
  USA Today 03/02/07
• Gov.'s Health Care Plan Runs Into Opposition - CA Nurses To Launch Ad Campaign
  KGO-TV 03/01/07
• Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect - Complaints About Walter Reed Were Voiced for Years
  Washington Post 03/01/07
• Police probe death in organ donation case - Authorities investigate allegations that a Kaiser surgeon in San Luis Obispo hastened a possible donor's demise.
  Los Angeles Times 02/28/07
• Some insurers raise drug prices after enrollment
  USA Today 03/01/07
• Calling on Rochester to treat the ailing medical care system
  Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 02/28/07
• Universal health measure revived - All Californians would be insured
  Ventura County Star 02/28/07
• For Want of a Dentist - Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain
  Washington Post 02/28/07
• UPI Poll: Medical costs hinder health
  United Press International 02/23/07
• Massachusetts spurs health-care debate
  Reuters 02/22/07
• LAW WOULD BAR DUMPING PATIENTS ON THE STREET; Officials say 55 alleged cases on skid row are being investigated. A police crackdown starts.; HOSPITALS PUT ON NOTICE
  Los Angeles Times 02/22/07
• Drug firm fraud may cost Medicaid untold billions - Officials say companies systematically overbill health agency for poor
  Newhouse News Service 02/22/07
• Richardson urges delegation to support funding for Indian health care
  Santa Fe New Mexican 02/21/07
• Health care spending seen doubling in 10 years
  Reuters 02/21/07
• Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
  Washington Post 02/18/07
• Healthcare plan pros, cons aired at panel hearing
  Ventura County Star 02/16/07
• Wal-Mart 1, Union 0
  Forbes.com 02/07/07
• Women's Health Insurance Coverage Fact Sheets
  Kaiser Family Foundation 02/05/07
• Just a first step - What's really needed is to eliminate the private health-care bureaucracy
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 02/04/07
• Medicaid enrollments drop in 6 states over ID, citizenship rules
  Associated Press 02/02/07
• America's Struggle With Health Care
  Christian Science Monitor 02/02/07
• Care for U.S. veterans could cost $662 billion: study
  Reuters 02/02/07
• Little Progress Seen for Poorest After Hurricane
  New York Times 02/02/07
• Labor Unions Endorse National Health Care - Bill Reintroduced by Conyers, Kucinich
  Bureau of National Affairs 02/01/07
• Caring for America's health
  BBC 01/29/07
• A Call for ‘Radical Change’ - A Colorado father journeyed to Washington to plead for health-care reform on behalf of his chronically ill son.
  Newsweek 01/29/07
• People left holding bag when policies revoked - Make a mistake on your application? You may pay for that surgery yourself
  USA Today 01/29/07
• Change in healthcare law urged - Group asks state to delay penalties
  Boston Globe 01/25/07
• Bush health plan would gut current cover: critics
  Washington Post 01/24/07
• Retirees up against debt
  USA Today 01/23/07
• State should push for health care
  San Gabriel Valley Tribune 01/22/07
• Retirees up against debt
  USA Today 01/23/07
• Washington Press Conference Wednesday - Nurses, Doctors, Patients Respond to Bush Health Proposals, Unite In Call for Real Universal Healthcare - Legislators Introduce Key Single-Payer Health Bill
  Press Release 01/22/07
• State should push for health care
  San Gabriel Valley Tribune 01/22/07
• Sticker shock for state care plan - Average premium of $380 outlined
  Boston Globe 01/20/07
• Austria shows governor the way
  Contra Costa Times 01/20/07
• A clear choice on health care reform
  San Diego Union-Tribune 01/19/07
• Arnold Should Be TRULY Inspired by Austria
  Huffington Post 01/17/07
• Providers in pinch on health reform - Cost of coverage worries nonprofits
  Boston Globe 01/17/07
• Why insurers love the new health plan
  San Francisco Bay Guardian 01/17/07
• Comparison between Schwarzenegger Health Plan and Single Payer for California
  Physicians for a National Health Program  01/16/07
• The Reality and the Rhetoric of Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Proposal
  California Progress Report 01/16/07
• Arnold-Care Is A Bad Deal
  TomPaine.com 01/16/07
• Cook County RNs Hold Candlelight Vigil for Patient Care - Cruel, 17% Healthcare Cuts Would Have a Devastating Effect on Chicago Patients - Thursday, January 18th, 5 p.m.
  Press Release 01/16/07
• ED VS. AH-NULD: GOVS TACKLE HEALTH CARE - FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT, BUT HOW EFFECTIVELY?
  Philadelphia Daily News 01/16/07
• State plans miss the point
  USA Today 01/15/07
• MEDICAL STUDENTS TO CONVERGE IN SACRAMENTO IN RECORD NUMBERS TO SUPPORT SB 840, OPPOSE GOVERNOR'S HEALTHCARE PROPOSAL
  Press Release 01/15/07
• Labor's Rx For Health Care - AFL-CIO Touts Single-Payer System
  Hartford Courant 01/13/07
• Flaws with plan
  San Mateo Times 01/12/07
• Catholic Healthcare West says it will pay $423 million refund
  San Francisco Chronicle 01/12/07
• Kuehl's plan, not Arnold's, is answer
  LA Daily News 01/11/07
• On the Governor's Health-Care Plan: More insurance is not the answer
  San Francisco Chronicle 01/11/07
• Health reform package needs major surgery
  Orange County Register 01/10/07
• Healthcare packages all inferior, except for one
  Ventura County Star 01/10/07
• It's time to act on health care coverage for all
  Arizona Daily Star 01/09/07
• SWEEPING STATE HEALTH PLAN - GOVERNOR'S PROPOSAL: Coverage for all Californians -- everyone to share cost
  San Francisco Chronicle 01/09/07
• Cook health-care cuts feared - No part of system will be untouched, interim leader says
  Chicago Tribune 01/09/07
• California Nurses Statement on Gov. Health Plan
  Press Release 01/08/07
• To make health care affordable, attack insurers' greed
  San Jose Mercury News 01/08/07
• Health insurers deny policies in some jobs - Common medications also can be deemed too risky in California.
  Los Angeles Times 01/08/07
• California Nurses Association President Deborah Burger Available for Comment on Schwarzenegger Health Plan Monday
  Press Release 01/05/07
• Make health insurers play fair - Any plan to reform healthcare must tackle the biggest obstacle to insuring everyone -- private insurers.
  Los Angeles Times 01/05/07
• Insurance is enough to make you sick - Private health insurance is a drag on the economy the government must fix.
  Los Angeles Times 01/04/07
• Our big health care blind spot
  Houston Chronicle 01/02/07
• Silent majority for single-payer
  Boston Globe 12/31/06
• The slippery slope of market-based medicine
  Sacramento Bee 12/30/06
• Health Policies Stripped Down - Cheaper Insurance Plans Attract Some Workers, But Benefits Are Limited
  Hartford Courant 12/26/06
• Schwarzenegger Wrestles With Health Care - Governor Aims to Cover California's Uninsured Millions, Raising Issue's Profile Nationally
  Wall Street Journal 12/21/06
• New Drugs Declining, Research Costs Increasing, GAO Says
  Washington Post 12/20/06
• UNIVERSAL DIAGNOSIS; Would Europe's Health-care-for-all Model Work Here? Cover Everyone And Use Medicare As A Model
  Riverside Press Enterprise 12/17/06
• The costs of reform - Employers are happy with the new workers' compensation system, but doctors and injured workers say it's a disaster
  Chico News and Review 09/21/06
• Health Care Morality
  Texas Observer 09/08/2006
• Schwarzenegger Announces He Will Veto Healthcare Bill - The legislation would launch the process of establishing a state-run insurer to cover all residents. He says it would cost too much.
  Los Angeles Times 09/06/06
• Universal health measure faces veto - Governor says it is too expensive
  Ventura County Star 09/06/06
• Nurses Blast Schwarzenegger Plan to Veto SB 840 - Governor 'Abandoning Millions of Uninsured Californians'
  Press Release 09/05/06
• CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE APPROVES MAJOR STATEWIDE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE REFORM
  Press Release 08/31/06
• SB 840 will cure state's struggles with health care
  Sacramento Bee 08/20/06
• City Endorses Single-Payer Health Plan
  California Healthline 08/18/06
• A 'hole' lot of frustration - Gap in Medicare prescription drug plan leaves some seniors with a $2,850 surprise
  San Francisco Chronicle 08/15/06
• New funds leave old programs struggling - Despite Prop. 63, counties cut core mental health aid
  San Francisco Chronicle 07/31/06
• 100 RNs and Union Members Picket Gov.'s Healthcare Summit Cite Governor's Failed Record on Access and Quality of Care
  Press Release 07/24/06
• Schwarzenegger's Record of Blocking Healthcare Reform Belies Election-Year Motivation for Summit - GOVERNOR OPPOSES UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE COVERAGE FOR CALIFORNIANS
  Press Release 07/17/06
• Health care bill backed
  Davis Enterprise 07/14/06
• Will Mass. chase away people like Ryan Crosby? - New health insurance mandate, while helping many, will put financial pressure on others
  Boston Business Journal 06/13/06
• On National Day of Action for Medicare for All, California Nurses Host Walking Tour of California's Broken Healthcare System - Blue Cross Denial of Care, Health Net Cash Register Politics, WellPoint Huge Profits Demonstrate Need for True Healthcare Reform
  Press Release 06/07/06
• Your Dangerous Drugstore
  The New York Review of Books 06/01/06
• Shopping for health care prices can be pretty confusing
  USA Today 05/09/06
• Those most in need may miss drug benefit sign-up
  USA Today 05/08/06
• America's 'Near Poor' Are Increasingly at Economic Risk, Experts Say
  New York Times 05/08/06
• Our Sick Society
  New York Times 05/05/06
• Study Shows Americans Sicker Than English
  Associated Press 05/02/06
• Death By Insurance
  New York Times 05/01/06
• Jump in middle-income Americans who go without health insurance
  San Francisco Chronicle 04/26/06
• 'Wrong site' surgeries on the rise
  USA Today 04/18/06
• Government-Funded Care Is the Best Health Solution - Multiple Insurers, Multiple Plans Create Expensive, Draining Hassle
  The Wall Street Journal 04/18/06
• Consumption
  The New Yorker 04/17/06
• Healthcare plan needs dose of common sense
  Boston Globe 04/17/06
• Lobbyists took in $7.5m on health bill - Industry boosts spending by third
  Boston Globe 04/05/06
• Care Bill May Be A Hospital Bonanza
  Boston Globe 03/29/06
• The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It
  The New York Review of Books 03/07/06
• Television Star Joins Congressmembers, Nurses to Demand "Medicare for All" at 2/23 Los Angeles City Hall Press Conference - That '70s Show Star Testifies at Citizen Congressional Hearing to Expose Healthcare Crisis
  Press Release 02/23/06
• Health-care overhaul urged at rally
  Marin Independent Journal 02/19/06
• The Lopsided Bush Health Plan
  New York Times 02/03/06
• Plan OK for rich, healthy
  San Francisco Chronicle 02/01/06
• Support swells for universal health care - Ky. panel endorses plan for U.S. system
  Courier-Journal 01/30/06
• Budget to Hurt Poor People On Medicaid, Report Says
  New York Times 01/30/06
• Hospitals charge above costs
  Montgomery Advertiser 01/29/06
• Medicare Drug Plan Leaves Out Supplies - The benefit covers home IV medication but not the implements and care needed to administer it.
  Los Angeles Times 01/27/06
• Rx plan failing to help neediest - Low-income seniors are slow to sign up
  Contra Costa Times 01/25/06
• Patients Needing Care Overwhelm New Orleans's Hospital System
  New York Times 01/23/06
• The K Street Prescription
  New York Times 01/20/06
• First, Do More Harm
  New York Times 01/16/06
• Margin of Safety - Just-in-Time Inventories Make U.S. Vulnerable in a Pandemic
  The Wall Street Journal 01/12/06
• Record Share Of Economy Is Spent on Health Care
  Washington Post 01/10/06
• Hispanics' Health Care Disparities Worsen - Rising Costs, Unequal Care
  Associated Press 01/09/06
• Drug profits infect medical studies
  Los Angeles Times 01/07/06
• Two women, two cancers, two health-care systems
  San Francisco Chronicle 12/29/05
• How We Got to Be 37th
  Texas Observer 01/07/05
• Gouging the Poor
  The Progressive 02/01/04