Two News Stories that Help to Make It Clear Why We Need Comprehensive Health Care Reform

The bill is HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act
The Whatcom Alliance for Health Care Access is a long time community health care study group that I participate in, which is dedicated to improving access and quality of care in Whatcom County, Washington. It is composed of citizens from all wal

A Sad Irony
Senate Democrats lost a key vote October 21st on a $247 billion dollar measure to avoid decreased Medicare reimbursement payments to doctors over the next 10 years. This would not have been an increase, but would have simply kept them at the same level they are now. The proposal was blocked in a 47-to-

What doctors think about health care reform
What do doctors think about proposed health care reform? The voices of physicians in the current debate have been almost exclusively from national physicians’ groups and societies, and little has been known about "the doctor in the trenches" and how they view things.

One reason medical care is so expensive: We All pay a Hidden Tax
Those of us who currently have private health insurance pay a "hidden tax", included in our premiums, to pay for costs incurred by those without coverage. A new study now calculates that cost to be