It takes only three letters to explain why the idea of single payer health insurance keeps getting shot down quickly in the California Legislature: EDD. No program in state, city or local government ...

Lurie has dispatched his top advisers to sit at the negotiating table full time, including Staci Slaughter, his chief of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlie Munger looked at the American healthcare system and gave the kind of diagnosis that does not come with a gentle bedside ...

Even as the Colorado Legislature works to put the final touches on the Colorado Insurance Exchanges required by Obamacare, critics are pushing on two fronts for a single-payer system, instead. Sen.

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BOSTON — Nearly two decades after Massachusetts started requiring every resident to carry health insurance, advocates say they’re building support to again transform the state’s health care system. In ...

More than 2,000 doctors backed a single-payer healthcare system in an article published by the American Journal of Public Health. While Presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is running on ...

Medicare is a health insurance program in the United States that is available to certain individuals. It is part of a multiple-payer system. A single-payer system is when one entity collects all ...

In a dramatic show of physician support for deeper health reform - and for making a decisive break with the private insurance model of financing medical care - 2,231 physicians called today [Thursday, ...

When President Obama convened a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, N.M., last month, he wanted to talk about credit card reform. But many in the crowd had a different agenda. "So many people go bankrupt ...

HELENA - Supporters of a system of national health insurance for all citizens are holding rallies in six Montana cities Friday, to urge Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to consider it as a possible reform.

A single-payer health system could mean a variety of changes for the healthcare system, depending on its design. One thing is clear, according to the Congressional Budget Office: All participants ...