A Doctor’s Voice: Medicaid For All

Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council member Mike Grady, M.D., had the following opinion piece published today in the Oregonian: We will have health care reform by the holidays, but it won’t be what we need. The $265 million spent by the health care...

Pulling Your Hair Out?

Here’s what I know. We have not worked all these years on health reform in order for Congress to pass a bill mandating that Americans must buy health insurance from a private company, regardless of whether it is for-profit or not-for-profit. If this is the...

Montana Integrated Care Clinic Reduces Cost

PBS’ Newshour has a segment that gets at the heart of health reform: improving outcomes while lowering costs: “At a clinic in Billings, Mont., doctors are employees rather than contractors paid under a fee-for-service model. President Obama has touted this...

Town Halls Update

Wow, the town halls are hot in the news – but not because the media is talking about what we need in terms of health reform, or how the health crisis is hurting Americans and American businesses, but because of the sound of people trying to disrupt the town hall...

Massachusetts Panel Backs Radical Shift in Health Payments

From today’s New York Times: A high-level state commission recommended Thursday that Massachusetts seek to rein in health care costs by radically restructuring the way doctors and hospitals are paid. The commission’s action kicks off the second phase of a...