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Healthcare finance through the class divide

If you want the ethos of the ivory tower's upper floors laid bare, Robert Pear's recent ironic New York Times article does the trick. A significant swath of the Harvard University faculty is...

Author: Vermont should heed woes of UK, Canadian single-payer systems

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin's failure to win re-election outright could jeopardize the state's plan to create a single-payer healthcare system. That's a good thing, according to Sally C. Pipes, author of 'The Cure for Obamacare.'

Single-payer traits worth emulating

While the healthcare system in Canada is more efficient than the U.S. system, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter highlights two facets of Medicare our neighbor to the north should embrace.

Single-payer experiment in MD could impact other states

Maryland leaders are experimenting with a single-payer system, a plan that could potentially influence other states. In the all-payer system, the state will control and budget hospital costs, giving all hospitals in Maryland an annual budget to manage their total fees for the year.

Florida Blue CEO: Single-payer is not future of healthcare

The healthcare industry keeps changing, and the future landscape will not involve a single-payer system, Florida Blue CEO Pat Geraghty told Florida Watchdog.

Economy blamed for drop in routine care

The economy could be the reason many North Americans and Europeans--most notably Americans--are more reluctant to get routine medical care, according to research published in  Social Science Quarterly.

Oncologists foresee 'snowball effect' for single-payer healthcare

The single-payer system has found champions in oncologists, who have a "moral and ethical obligation" to endorse a universal healthcare system financed by a single payer, MedPage Today reported.

Vermont Gov. Shumlin: Exchange problems call for simpler system

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin says all the technical problems with the state-run health insurance exchange points to a larger issue--that the healthcare industry must move to a single-payer system, reported the Burlington Free Press.

Colin Powell endorses single-payer health system

Colin Powell, former secretary of state and retired four-star Army general, called for establishing single-payer healthcare in the United States similar to systems operating elsewhere in the world, according to reports by ABC News and The Puget Sound Business Journal.

The universal healthcare experiment in Vermont

The state of Vermont is planning a 2017 launch of the nation's first universal healthcare system financed by a single payer, according to the Associated Press. The system has been called one of the costliest and most closely-watched social experiments of its time.