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Articles of Interest Archives
These articles highlight many of the health care related stories in the news–ranging from single-payer op-eds by PNHP members to reports by newspapers on corporate health care.
Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2014By Julie Rovner | Kaiser Health News
Advocates for a single-payer "Medicare for all" health system are fanning out across Capitol Hill this week, lobbying members of Congress.
Solution to challenge of providing health care to all is a single-payer system, say experts, advocatesPosted on Wednesday, May 21, 2014Public Citizen
WASHINGTON -- There is a solution to the challenge of providing health care coverage to the 50 million Americans who are uninsured, and that solution is a Medicare-for-All, single-payer system, a panel of experts and advocates said today.
Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2014The following is a video of a panel discussion titled "Single Payer: Where do we go from here?" with presentations by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Robert Weissman of Public Citizen, Gerald Friedman of UMass-Amherst, Dr. Margaret Flowers of PopularResistance.org, Dr. Andrew D. Coates of Physicians for a National Health Program, and Michael Lighty of National Nurses United.
Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2014By Jon Perr | Daily Kos
With its shameful backlog and secret waiting lists at some of its facilities, the Veterans Health Administration is facing an urgent crisis. But the only reform certain to make things worse would be to privatize the system of 1,700 VA facilities that serve 8.76 million American vets.
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2014The Morning Consult
As the health insurance industry increasingly looks to market directly to consumers for new revenue, legacy brand challenges remain. The words "greedy", "money", "expensive", and "profit" dominated voter responses when asked to identify what comes to mind when you think of health insurance companies.
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2014By Aaron Carroll, MD | The Week
In the U.S., we throw around the phrase "socialized medicine" a lot, typically referring to a Medicare-for-all system like Canada's. But when you think about it, a single-payer insurance system leaves the whole medical industry out of the government orbit.
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2014Labor Beat, May 16, 2014
This video provides a clear overview of the national health care crisis, the inadequacies of Obamacare, and the argument for an 'everybody in, nobody out' single-payer health program. Andrew D. Coates, M.D., gives a motivating presentation of the basics in this debate, backed up by selected PowerPoint graphics prepared by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition.
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2014By Elisabeth Rosenthal | The New York Times
Though the recent release of Medicare's physician payments cast a spotlight on the millions of dollars paid to some specialists, there is a startling secret behind America's health care hierarchy: Physicians, the most highly trained members in the industry's work force, are on average right in the middle of the compensation pack.
Posted on Monday, May 19, 2014By Sarah Lazare | Common Dreams
The Obama administration earlier this month quietly handed the insurance industry another loophole in the Affordable Care Act—infuriating advocates for universal coverage who say this shows that an insurance-driven health system is doomed to fail.
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014By Adam Gaffney, M.D. | Salon
Imagine you're a conservative state politician ideologically opposed to government-provided health insurance for those with low incomes, but you nonetheless recognize the folly in forgoing billions of dollars in federal funds available to states that expand Medicaid simply to prove a Dickensian point (of questionable popularity).
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014By Philip Caper, M.D. | Bangor Daily News
Opponents of universal health care often claim that in order to afford it we will have to ration health care. My response to that old shibboleth is that we already pay more than enough to cover everybody, and that we already ration health care, as we must in a world of finite financial and real resources. The real question is not, "Should we ration health care?" but rather, "What's the fairest way to do it?"
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2014By Kip Sullivan, J.D. | Truthdig
President Obama and the Democratic Party dug themselves into a deep hole by claiming the Affordable Care Act would cut the nation's health care costs when in fact it will raise them. It's the gift that will keep on giving to opponents of the law.
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2014By Robert Langreth | Bloomberg News
Earl Harford, a retired professor, recently bought a month's worth of the pills he needs to keep his leukemia at bay. The cost: $7,676, or three times more than when he first began taking the pills in 2001. Over the years, he has paid more than $140,000 from his retirement savings to cover his share of the drug's price.
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2014The Ed Show, MSNBC, May 9, 2014
PNHP co-founder Dr. David Himmelstein appeared on MSNBC's 'The Ed Show' on May 9, 2014 to discuss a study he co-authored that found that more than 7,100 deaths are likely from states' rejection of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Posted on Friday, May 9, 2014By Ida Hellander, M.D. | The New York Times
Studies show that even patients who need emergency care for a potentially serious problem will go without it if they are in a high-deductible health plan (although this increases their risk of subsequent hospitalization). And therein lies the problem. While cost sharing discourages overuse of medical care, it worsens a greater problem, that of underuse.
Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2014By Kelly Fay | The Legislative Gazette (Albany, N.Y.)
Lawmakers, patients and health providers are urging the Legislature to pass a bill they say would provide every New Yorker with the basic human right to health care. Advocates rallied outside the Capitol Tuesday demanding the state adopt a single-payer system of health insurance and put "patients before profits."
Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2014Healthcare-NOW!
Chief executive officers at Fortune 500 health insurance companies, who have opposed new regulations under the Affordable Care Act, emerged this month as one of the ACA's greatest beneficiaries. Recently filed financial reports show that average compensation for these top nine health insurance CEOs rose by more than 19 percent in 2013, while several of the nation's largest insurers more than doubled CEO pay.
Posted on Monday, May 5, 2014By Ana Malinow, M.D. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As Americans gain more experience with the ACA, they will become disappointed when they realize that plans in the marketplace have low actuarial value and high deductibles. Narrow provider networks will prevent Americans from having choices in physicians and hospitals. Those previously satisfied with their employer-sponsored coverage will find they, too, have fewer options at greater cost. This incremental step will put billions in the pockets of insurance companies, entrenching them further in our system.
Posted on Monday, May 5, 2014By Margaret Flowers, M.D. | The Indypendent (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
It feels truly Orwellian that progressives are applauding the forced purchase of private health insurance — one of the most hated industries in the United States — while the right is opposing a model that originated from their political leaders. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a step farther on the path to total privatization of our health care system, not towards the health care system that most Americans support: single payer Medicare for all.
Posted on Friday, May 2, 2014By Monika Dutt and Rachel Tutte | Vancouver Sun
We are just four short months away from an unprecedented legal challenge to Canadian public health care that will put the fundamental Canadian principle of care based on need, not ability to pay, on trial.
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2014By Wendell Potter | The Center for Public Integrity
When I returned home after a two-week speaking tour of Canada and began catching up on news about Obamacare, I was angry and upset, and not just at politicians and special interests that benefit from deception-based PR tactics. I was — and still am — mostly angry and upset with myself. And I know I always will be.
Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2014By Andis Robeznieks | Modern Healthcare
CHICAGO -- The American College of Physician Executives annual meeting drew a record 830 attendees, including one doctor whose presentation on the merits of a national single-payer system may have been something of a surprise.
Posted on Monday, April 28, 2014By Adela Talbot | Western (University) News, London, Ont.
Danielle Martin sure can stand her ground.
Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2014By David Markiewicz | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Doctors and hospitals increasingly are asking insured patients to pay more of their bills for elective procedures at the time of the service, rather than collecting a small fee upfront and waiting until later to get the rest of what's owed.
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014By Wendell Potter | The Huffington Post
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- During the year leading up to the 2008 presidential primaries, my insurance industry colleagues and I were working hard to influence the debate on health care reform.
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2014By Rosalind L. Murray | Palm Beach Post
So much has been said about the Affordable Care Act — both bad and good. Most people, unless you are a professional, will have a difficult time fully understanding your insurance policy. Consumers (and politicians) say that no one should come between them and their doctor. However, unless a consumer pays out of pocket — there has always been someone between them and their doctor: the insurance company.
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2014By A.W. Gaffney, M.D. | Jacobin
Last year's three-ring Congressional shutdown circus — for many little more than a desperate rearguard action by an isolated rightwing fringe to undo the fait accompli of Barack Obama's health care reform — reinforced with each passing day the gaudy dysfunction of the American political system. But we miss something crucial if we construe the perseverance of Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) as nothing more than the overdue victory of commonsense health care reform over an irrelevant and intransigent right, or, even more, as the glorious culmination of a progressive dream for American universal health care long deferred.
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2014By Philip Caper, M.D. | Bangor (Maine) Daily News
The United States spends far more on medical care than other wealthy countries, due mostly to higher prices for health care goods and services. There is a reason for this. In U.S. politics, social progress comes at a high price if it threatens business interests.
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2014Univision Chicago, April 12, 2014
They are a group of doctors and medical students that say they are not content with how health care reform is functioning, and are now calling for a reform of the reform.
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2014By Adam Gaffney, MD | Salon
As a single-payer advocate who is also a doctor, I was concerned after the Affordable Care Act was passed that it didn't do enough to combat rising underinsurance. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, which used new data to demonstrate that in 2012 some 31.7 million Americans were underinsured (i.e. insured, but still with heavy additional out-of-pocket health care expenses), argued that the burden of underinsurance will likely lessen as the ACA fully unfolds. But is there really reason for such optimism?
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2014By Adam Gaffney, M.D. | Dissent
Less than two years after the fall of Nazi Germany, a bankrupt Britain – reeling from the most destructive war in history and living under conditions of stark austerity – elected to create an extraordinary system of universal health care, the National Health Service (NHS). Aneurin Bevan, the Labour Party minister of health who played a crucial role in its creation, famously remarked that the NHS would "last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it." Subsequent developments, it seems, have put his challenge to the test.
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014By Bob Herman | Becker's Hospital CFO
A new report from nonpartisan advocacy group Public Citizen said a publicly funded healthcare system that guarantees universal coverage would not only reduce healthcare costs — it would also be an economic relief for employers and businesses.
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014By Neil H. Buchanan | Justia (Mountain View, Calif.)
To the surprise of many people, and to the great consternation of Republicans, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or the dreaded "Obamacare") failed to fail. Last week, to much fanfare, the Obama Administration announced that the ACA's enrollment target had been met, which means that the health care law will not collapse from lack of adequate participation.
Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2014By James Besante | Common Dreams
While much has been made of the 7.1 million people who bought new private health insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act, and the additional millions who newly signed up for Medicaid, two big questions hover over these figures.
Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2014By Sarah Kliff | Vox
Saskatchewan is a vast prairie province in the middle of Canada. It's home to hockey great Gordie Howe and the world's first curling museum. But Canadians know it for another reason: it's the birthplace of the country's single-payer health-care system.
Posted on Monday, April 7, 2014By Molly Worthen | The New York Times
When most liberals hear the words "third party," they have nasty flashbacks to Ralph Nader's spoiler campaign in 2000. The history buffs among them might think of the populist Greenback Party's feckless protests against the gold standard in the 19th century or the five presidential campaigns of the Socialist Eugene V. Debs — the last of which, in 1920, he ran from prison.
Posted on Monday, March 31, 2014By Margaret Flowers, M.D. | PopularResistance.org
I have been an outspoken advocate for a Medicare for all health system. During the health reform process, I did all that I could to push for single payer, including being arrested three times for civil disobedience. I was one of fifty doctors who filed a brief in the Supreme Court which expressed opposition to forcing people to buy private health insurance, a defective product. It pains me to see that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) siphons billions of public dollars to create more bureaucracy and transfers hundreds of billions of public dollars directly to the private insurance industry when I know that those dollars should be paying for the health care that so many in our country desperately need.
Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2014By Ellen Oxfeld | Rutland (Vt.) Herald
This week in a Vermont Public Radio interview, Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell backed away from an unwavering commitment to the historic task set out in Act 48 — creating a publicly funded guaranteed health care system for all Vermonters.
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014By Max Romano | The Baltimore Sun
After months of trying to help low-income Marylanders like Mary sign up, I'm more convinced than ever that Obamacare will not reach many of the people who need health insurance the most and that universal public coverage is the only way we can provide real health care for all in Maryland.
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014By A.W. Gaffney, M.D. | Truthout
There are many good reasons to impatiently anticipate the end of one's medical training, which not infrequently lasts upwards of five years following medical school. But counterpoised to the oft-cited benefits -- greater autonomy, reliably increased remuneration, less reliably improved hours, and so forth -- there is also, unfortunately, an almost entirely unrecognized drawback: a largely unavoidable entanglement in the business of health care.
Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2014By Philip Caper, M.D. | Bangor Daily News
In today's corporatized and increasingly monetized health care environment, the demands for generation of profit often directly conflict with our clinical judgment. The belief that doctors and other healers act as stewards for our patients' welfare has long earned us a special place in society and the trust of our patients. That position and that trust, so critical to healing, is now threatened.
Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2014By Samuel Metz, M.D. | The Oregonian
We are the only country in the world that uses our medical records, along with residence, age, military status, number of co-workers, our employer's choice of insurance companies, part-time status, income and size of family to determine how much care we will receive and which providers we can see. We then repeat this every time we change residence, age, military status, etc.
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2014By Matthew Anderson, M.D. | Health Affairs blog
Sometime in the past five years — it's hard for me to say exactly when — I suddenly found myself living in a new home. I must admit I am still a bit disoriented by how this happened. But it did. People keep telling me that everything will be OK but I am not entirely sure.
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2014By Philip Verhoef, MD, PhD and Stephen Kemble, MD | KevinMD.com
Emanuel has reframed the crisis in the U.S. health care system as one of cost instead of the approximately 100 million Americans who lack health insurance or have insurance that does not enable appropriate care, leading to many thousands of deaths per year. We suggest that elimination of this travesty is the most important BHAG for physicians and that the solution is a single-payer system.
Posted on Friday, March 14, 2014On March 11, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont chaired a Senate subcommittee hearing on what the health care system in the United States can learn from other countries, particularly Canada, Taiwan, Denmark and France.
Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2014By Deborah Schumann, M.D.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, held a hearing Tuesday to gain insight into the health care systems of four other countries, all of which view health care as a human right and have achieved near-universal coverage and access to care for their citizens.
Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2014By Carmen Chai | Global News (Canada)
TORONTO – Dr. Danielle Martin knows Canadians are proud of the country's universal health care. She is too.
Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2014By Jackie Farwell | Bangor Daily News
With March 31 fast approaching as the deadline to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care act, the state's largest physicians group has released new survey results showing Maine doctors favor a very different kind of health reform.
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014By Michael Hiltzik | The Los Angeles Times
A U.S. politician's I-don't-need-no-stinkin'-facts approach to health policy ran smack into some of those troublesome facts Tuesday at a Senate hearing on single-payer healthcare, as it's practiced in Canada and several other countries.
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014By Jamie Self | The State (Columbia, S.C.)
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Protesters calling on lawmakers to expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act -- and to stop trying to impede the law in South Carolina -- blocked a driveway into the State House parking garage for the second week in a row.
Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2014By Mark Karlin | Truthout/Buzzflash
According to the advocacy organization Public Citizen, a number of experts from single-payer nations recently testified at a Senate sub-committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a leading supporter of Medicare for all. The spokespersons from Canada and Denmark offered compelling reasons why the US should move from a private-insurance system to a government administered program (such as, well, Medicare).
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2014By the editors | Maine Medicine Weekly Update
A recent survey of Maine Medical Association (MMA) members showed an increase in the percentage of members supporting a single-payer approach to health system reform.
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2014By Henry J. Waters III | Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune
Recently a group of physicians sponsored a visit by a University of Massachusetts professor of economics who goes about the country touting the advantages of single-payer health care, using numbers as his forte. Gerald Friedman appeared at the University of Missouri School of Medicine at the behest of the Missouri chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program.
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2014By Elisabeth Rosenthal | The New York Times
When Matt Meyer, who owns a saddle-fitting company in New Hampshire, set up a monthly payment plan after some surgery, he was distressed to notice that the invoices came from a debt collector. "I had no idea this was considered debt," he said, and wondered: "Are they reporting that" to a credit agency?
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2014By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P. | WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Facing a loved one's death is overwhelming. Since the chances are very good that all of us will face death, it seems obvious we should be devoting our resources to building a system based upon caring for patients with the kind of dignity they deserve.
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2014By William Rivers Pitt | Truthout
Nothing so thoroughly dominated the American political landscape over the last year more than the Republican assault on the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known now as "Obamacare." The GOP's eternal refrain that "Government is the problem" was used as a battering ram against the law, and House Republicans have voted to repeal or denude it exactly fifty times as of today.
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2014By Gabriel Edwards and David Mealiea | The New Physician
In medical school, we are taught that practicing good medicine means first asking a good history. Gathering relevant information guides the review of the patient's body systems, physical examination, and ultimately the assessment and plan that leads to an effective medical intervention. With experience, the doctor learns to recognize patterns which help guide clinical judgment. We are at the beginning of this process, but some patterns have already begun to emerge.
Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2014By David Sims | The Chief-Leader (New York)
The Affordable Care Act's changes to the nation's health-care business mean good and bad things for organized labor, but a Feb. 27 LaborPress event on its impact focused more on pushing for a single-payer system in the state to relieve the increased pressure on unions.
Posted on Friday, February 28, 2014By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P. | WAMC Northeast Public Radio
The Affordable Care Act is reducing the number of uninsured, yet at the end of the day it is not a program of universal access to care. Because the major failings of the U.S. system still persist — avoidable death and bankruptcy, racial and socioeconomic disparities, the perverse incentives of profiteering, burgeoning costs — the urgency for thoroughgoing health reform has returned.
Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2014By Sara Foss | The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, N.Y.)
The other night I attended a debate at The Linda in Albany, WAMC's performing arts studio, on whether the U.S. should adopt a single-payer health care system.
Posted on Monday, February 24, 2014By Jawad Husain | The Daily Free Press (Boston University)
Six years later, most of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been implemented. However, it's apparent that political pressure from the private insurance industry and the big drug companies has thwarted the goal of the universal health care.
Posted on Monday, February 24, 2014By Lyndonna Marrast, M.D., and Danny McCormick, M.D., M.P.H. | KevinMD.com
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase insurance coverage for the poor, uninsured and minorities, but will it improve access to care and population health? The answer depends critically on whether or not physicians are available to care for the newly insured. Many health policy experts fear there may not be.
Posted on Monday, February 24, 2014By Samuel L. Dickman | Scholars Strategy Network
Will this coverage gap for so many low-income Americans have adverse health consequences? To answer this question, my research collaborators and I estimated the number and demographic characteristics of people likely to remain uninsured, and then drew on recent studies to spell out the likely health consequences.
Posted on Friday, February 21, 2014By Ed Weisbart, M.D. | The Lawton (Okla.) Constitution
I am a proudly patriotic, fiscally prudent, family physician. For those three reasons, I support a national health insurance program.
Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2014By Philip Caper, M.D. | Bangor (Maine) Daily News
How much tax would you be willing to pay to make sure somebody who can't afford health care has to grovel to get it?
Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2014By Ben Sisario | The New York Times
PITTSBURGH — Beer bottles clinked and indie-rock classics played overhead at a gallery opening here on a Friday night recently, as one artist after another chatted with Julie Sokolow, a filmmaker and health care advocate who has documented the Pittsburgh scene in detail.
Posted on Friday, February 14, 2014By Anya Schiffrin | Reuters
Every time I sit on hold now with the billing department of my New York doctors and insurance company, I think back to all the things French healthcare got right. The simplicity of that system meant that all our energy could be spent on one thing: caring for my father.
Posted on Friday, February 14, 2014By Elisabeth Rosenthal | The New York Times
American physicians, worried about changes in the health care market, are streaming into salaried jobs with hospitals. Though the shift from private practice has been most pronounced in primary care, specialists are following.
Posted on Thursday, February 13, 2014The New York Times
The heart of the doctor is the soul of medicine. Historically the doctor-patient relationship has earned medicine recognition as a noble profession. Corporatization keeps doctors from practicing that time-honored tradition. It is demoralizing to the profession and unsatisfactory for the patients.
Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2014By Maggie Fox | NBC News
Tim Armstrong has had to apologize twice now for his announcement last year saying the company was changing its 401(k) retirement plan policy in part because it had some hefty health care claims, including two babies costing a million dollars each for care.
Posted on Wednesday, February 5, 2014By Joshua Freeman, M.D. | Medicine and Social Justice blog
I wrote in a recent blog ("How can a health care system lead not to ruin but to, actually, health?", December 28, 2013) that our health care system "…is a parallel to our financial services industry: private enterprise is given a license to make money from everyone, and the government finances it. The only difference is that for financial services, the government steps in to bail them out only after they have already stolen all our money, while in health services the profit margin is built in from the start." A recent article in the New York Times, "Hospital chain said to scheme to inflate bills", by Julie Creswell and Reed Abelson (January 24, 2014) takes this a bit farther.
Posted on Wednesday, February 5, 2014By Henry J. Waters III | Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune
Much is being made by opponents of the Affordable Care Act of adverse selection, the tendency of younger, healthier Americans to avoid buying health insurance, thereby skewing the economics of the plan, which depends on premium income from people needing relatively little care to offset the cost of care for older, sicker patients.
Posted on Monday, February 3, 2014By Sarah Jaffe | In These Times
When Sergio Espana first began talking to people, just over a year ago, about the need for fundamental changes in the U.S. healthcare system, confusion often ensued. Some people didn't understand why, if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had passed, people still wanted to reform the system; others thought organizers were trying to sign them up for "Obamacare."
Posted on Saturday, February 1, 2014By Andrew D. Coates, M.D. | WAMC Northeast Public Radio
It is not only that Republican intransigence against the Affordable Care Act does nothing to advance the national debate about health care in a direction that would improve quality, increase access or reduce disparities. Nor would Republican proposals offer any means of cost saving, for both out-of-pocket costs and aggregate spending would continue to soar.
Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014By Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare
This little Appalachian community that made national news a year ago by passing a Fairness Ordinance did it again Monday night. It voted to endorse single-payer health care, H.R. 676, joining 54 other American cities, including Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore.
Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014By Rick Kogan | The Chicago Tribune
Near the end of this fine, fine book, Dr. Young writes, "As you've no doubt noticed in the preceding pages, my views and actions have also propelled me into sharp conflict with institutions and persons who would perpetuate injustice. That was true yesterday; it remains true today. My work is unfinished."
Posted on Friday, January 31, 2014By Jessica Desvarieux | The Real News Network
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 ruling that states can opt out of Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act, 21 states have done so, and (not surprising) they're all under Republican control. What is new to this Obamacare saga is a new Harvard University and CUNY study. It found that the lack of Medicaid expansion in these opt-out states will result in about 7,000 to 17,000 deaths a year. Now joining us to go over the study is coauthor of the report Dr. Steffie Woolhandler.
Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2014By Trudy Lieberman | The Huffington Post Canada
One thing Americans and Canadians can agree on is that we don't want each other's health care systems. In truth, most Americans don't know how Canada's system works and Canadians don't know much about the U.S. system.
Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2014By Charles Bankhead | MedPage Today
Oncologists have a "moral and ethical obligation" to their patients to advocate for a single-payer universal health insurance program, according to two oncologists who stated their case in an editorial.
Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2014By Henry Davis | The Buffalo News
If Buffalo is any indication, the campaign for single-payer health insurance didn't die with the Affordable Care Act.
Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2014By Darshak Sanghavi, M.D., and Sarah Bleiberg | KevinMD blog
While the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been criticized by its opposition as "socialized medicine," it relies heavily on private health insurance. On the other end of the political spectrum is the idea that a government-run single payer system, similar to Canada's, is the best way to deliver health care.
Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2014By Kyle Hughes | The Oneida (N.Y.) Daily Dispatch
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A group of 70 medical school students held their first-ever Capitol lobbying day Tuesday, calling for universal health care, medical marijuana and reining in insurers that now account for a third of the cost of healthcare here.
Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2014By Roxanne Nelson | Medscape Medical News
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, will not solve the healthcare crisis that cancer patients face. The only real solution, according to 2 oncologists, is a single-payer system of national healthcare insurance.
Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2014By Kay Tillow | FireDogLake
Buried deep in the health reform law is Section 10323. It amends the Social Security Act to extend Medicare coverage to individuals exposed to environmental health hazards in the region defined by the Emergency Declaration of June 17, 2009. That declaration limits this benefit to the area around Libby, Montana.
Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2014By Bill Davidson, M.D. | CommonSense2
In creating the Affordable Care Act (ACA) President Barack Obama had hoped to accomplish two goals. The first was to secure his legacy as the president who achieved quality, affordable health care for all Americans. His second objective was to reward and assure for his Democratic presidency the continued support of the private insurance and pharmaceutical industries as well as their Wall Street patrons. Unfortunately, the two objectives are mutually incompatible and as a result neither will be achieved.
Posted on Monday, January 27, 2014By Robert Fulton | California Health Report
Considering the prospects of a United States single-payer health care system, physician Matthew Hendrickson quipped: "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."
Posted on Monday, January 27, 2014By A.W. Gaffney, M.D. | Truthout
Nowadays, it's not only radicals who are recognizing the rising problem of inequality. Between Bill de Blasio's mayoral inauguration, Obama's pointed speech early last month, and Pope Francis' critique of trickle down economics in November, the rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street seems to be going mainstream.
Posted on Monday, January 27, 2014By Tony Berberabe, MPH | OncLive
When a patient receives the diagnosis of cancer, regardless of stage or severity of the disease, one of the many questions asked is how to pay for the treatment. And while the diagnosis is arguably the single most catastrophic health care event in an individual's life, the burden of cost on the patient and their family only adds to the stress of the situation.
Posted on Friday, January 24, 2014By Jonathan D. Walker, M.D.The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
"Doc, I need to get this done before my new deductible kicks in." Physicians hear this a lot; it reflects the increasing use of so-called consumer-directed health plans, where people are responsible for the first several thousand dollars of care before their insurance company has to pay. If you don't already have one, you probably will soon.
Posted on Friday, January 24, 2014By Laurie Tarkan | WellBeeFile
Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler, a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates for a single payer national health program, is professor in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. WellBeeFile (WBF) interviewed her about her views on the Affordable Care Act and its rollout.
Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014By Michael Binder, M.D. | The Enquirer (Cincinnati)
Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman." Sadly, the problem of massive inequality in health care persists to the present day. I saw a patient in clinic in the past week who is going through personal financial bankruptcy due to overwhelming medical bills. This is someone who actually has health coverage, but it was not enough to prevent him from going into tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014By Winthrop Dillaway, M.D. | The New York Times
The American health care system fails irrefutably and unacceptably with its economics and its ethics. How is it acceptable that the other leading countries of the world provide universal health care at half the cost and generally with higher quality?
Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2014By Louis Balizet, M.D. | Health Policy Solutions (Denver)
The Affordable Care Act, while providing some short-term benefits, is, on the whole, unworkable. Quite apart from website failures, its approach to health care is fundamentally flawed.
Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2014By Jessica Schorr Saxe, M.D. | The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
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Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In the last installment we covered how you find, test, and justify purchasing an APM solution. This blog will focus on what to do after you've made a purchase and started down the path of deploying your coveted APM tool (ahem, ahem, AppDynamics, ahem). Just clearing my throat, let's jump right in…
Welcome to Part 4 of my series It's time for a celebration, time to break out the champagne, time to spike the football and do your end zone dance (easy there Michael Jackson, don't hurt yourself). All of the hours you spent turning data into meaningful information, dealing with software vendors, writing requirements, testing solutions, documenting your findings, writing business justifications, and generally bending over backwards to ensure that no objection would stand in your way has culminated in management approving your purchase of APM software. Now the real work begins…
The 7 Ps
A co-worker of mine shared some words of wisdom with me a long time ago which have served me well over the years. It's a little saying called the 7 P's and goes something like this… Piss Poor Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance. Deploying and using APM software is not a time for spontaneity or just winging it. If you want to make mistakes and derive little value from the investment you just put your reputation behind then by all mean just jump in with little or no planning. If you want to be a rockstar you need a solid plan for deploying, configuring, verifying, operationalizing, using, and evangelizing your APM tool (ahem, ahem, AppDynamics, ahem). Just clearing my throat again, I think there's a bug going around ;-P
This blog post is a great general outline for planning your implementation. Everything covered in this post should be part of your planning process and should be considered the bare minimum for APM deployment planning within your organization.
Best Practices
The planning stage is a perfect time to ask your APM vendor for documentation on best practices related to deploying their software. Your vendor (AppDynamics, wink) has seen their software deployed in many situations across many industry verticals. They will have important advice for you on how to make the deployment and operation of their product as successful as possible. Use your vendors depth and breadth of information to your advantage, you're paying them so it's the least they can do.
Controller: The Brain, Narf!
The first major decision will be an easy one. You probably already covered this during the evaluation, vendor selection, and negotiation phases but we will recap here. You need to decide if you will host your own controller or use the vendors SaaS environment. In case you don't already know, a controller is the server component that collects, stores, analyzes, etc… the monitoring data from the agents. Basically the controller is the brains behind the operation. There are many factors that you need to consider when deciding to use a SaaS or On-Premise model and we will not cover them in this post. Your vendor of choice (ahem, ahem, AppDynamics, ahem) will help you decide which option is right for your business circumstances.
Easy peasy lemon squeazy! I have just embedded those words in your head for potentially days, weeks or years to come. Sorry about that but it really describes the SaaS option well. You don't have to get a server racked, VM allocated, disk space configured, solve a Rubiks Cube in 3 minutes or less, or whatever other convoluted deployment process your company may have in order to host your own software. All you really need to do is point your agents at the SaaS controller and you are off and running. Your chosen APM vendor (AppDynamics of course) will handle the server sizing, capacity, maintenance, etc… for you. Nice!
So you've decided to host your own controller(s). We have many clients that choose this route for one reason or another and we make every effort to support you just as well as using the SaaS option. In this case we wont be doing all of the work for you so you need to get cracking on your server deployment process. I hope it's super easy and streamlined and you can have a new host set up and ready to load software in an hour or less. In reality it may take you a few weeks or even months so you need to be familiar with the lead time so that you can appropriately plan the rest of the deployment. You NEED a controller so there is no point in deploying agents without one. Use this lead time to generate the most awesome plan ever!
Agents: Deploying and Configuring
Agents need applications to do anything meaningful so it's a requirement that you figure out what applications you want (or will be allowed) to monitor. You most likely had at least one problematic yet important application in mind when you started your search for an APM tool. Create a list of the applications that need monitoring and prioritize that list. I personally prefer creating a top 10 list (you could also call it a "next 10" list) that is an equal mix of application I suspect will be difficult to instrument as well as applications I think will be really easy. I do this because you usually don't work at deploying agents to application components in a serial manner. It's typically a parallel process where you can jump from one deployment to the next while you are waiting for approvals, personnel, or anything else that gets in your way of doing actual work.
Deploying APM agents should be easy. Add a very small amount of software to the server you want to monitor, reference the agent software in your application configuration and restart your application. It's basically that easy to deploy an agent. It should also be really easy to configure. In fact, the agent should automatically detect what it needs to monitor and simply just work. This is how AppDynamics works but the same does not hold true for most other APM vendors. Hopefully you saw this when you ran each vendor solution through your POC environment. In the interest of full disclosure I will admit that there are circumstances where NO APM solution can automatically detect your application properly and there is more configuration work to do. This is a problem that every APM vendor has to deal with but thankfully AppDynamics sees this condition with only a very small subset of its customer base. Usually you plug in our agent and we show you what you need to see. It just works!
Awesome, now that we just saved you 80% of the configuration time versus deploying "the other guys" what's next?
After you deploy agents (whether it be straight to production or advancing though pre-production environments) and you have used the monitored application a bit, you want to look at the user interface to see if the information contained within looks correct.
- Look at your application flow map to see if you are missing any application components.
- Check the business transactions to see if the expected transactions are there and reporting metrics.
- Do you have end user experience metrics showing up?
- Do you have transaction snapshots showing your custom code executing in the run time?
- Send out test alerts to see if they make it to their destination. (Alerting is important so we will cover it in another blog post)
If things don't look right you need to figure out why. It might be that your application really is different than you thought (we see this quite often), or it could be a problem with the monitoring. Resolve any issues you see before declaring deployment and configuration victory.
Production Load Cannot Be Simulated Exactly!!!
To realize the most value from your APM purchase you MUST run it in production. No matter how good your Quality Engineering team is they cannot code all of the crazy things your users will try to do in production. It can also be very difficult to duplicate your application environment in production. Example, you have 5000 JVMs spread across multiple cloud provider data centers. Replicating that environment would be time consuming and really expensive.
Beyond the technology aspects of running in production you also need to consider your existing processes. Your shiny new APM tool will provide incredible insight into application issues as long as you have it integrated into your processes. Here are some points to consider:
- Are alerts configured so that they are routed to the proper people?
- Does the operations center know about the new alerts that will be coming from your new APM product?
- Is there a process that application owners can follow to request monitoring by your new tool?
- Is there a process to smoothly and efficiently on-board a new application?
- Is the APM tool integrated with other corporate systems? (LDAP, Events Aggregations, Business Intelligence, etc…)
What I am trying to say is; Give your company every opportunity to use the hell out of your new tool!
Teach Them Well
Educate and evangelize, this will pay dividends ten fold.
Create a short training curriculum for anyone who will need to work with your APM tool. You should have training material for basic usage, advanced concepts (memory leaks, policies, dashboard creation, etc…), and operations (alerts/events) training. You need to make sure the people who will touch the product or consume the data have the information they need to be successful. Their success drives your success.
Tell everyone you can about the success you are having with your new tool. Don't be annoying to the point where people run the other way when they see you coming but make sure they know what you are working on and how much of an impact it is having on the business.
For every problem you solve with your new APM tool take 30 minutes to put together a 3–5 slide presentation. Include the following information on each presentation you create:
- Problem Description: Describe the application, problem, and impact level.
- Resolution: Describe the resolution steps and root cause. Use screenshots from your APM tool.
- Business Impact: Describe how long it took to resolve the issue, how long it normally takes without APM, and quantify the impact to the business of this outage for both scenarios (with and without APM).
These short presentations will equip you with the information you need to defend your decision to purchase APM, justify a larger investment, and propel yourself to rockstar status within your organization.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done to successfully deploy, configure and use an APM tool in the enterprise but the potential rewards are staggering. Think about how much lost revenue can be avoided by ensuring your revenue generating applications don't go down at peak times. People notice when the decisions you make and the work you do directly impact the bottom line. Put in the effort and get noticed!
Join me next week for the next installment in this series. It will be a blog post dedicated to alerts, yes they are that important.
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Secretary Kerry Delivers Remarks With UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
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|having the choice of which site to access was better. personally i would still rather access the .com site.
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|Less buggier than before, it's probably faster at loading features, jpg and flash
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Faster. Also what are people talking about, it's amazing to get links about relevant stuff.
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|Its Faster for me so far. As long as i still get access to the .com site then im more than pleased
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|much, much, much, MUCH faster. It was very slow before. took about 10 seconds to load anything, now takes about 2-3 seconds. Big improvement.
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|Mmmm! I find it much faster too. and I can't see much difference between .co.uk and .com except with .co.uk I get all that is on .com plus stuff for the UK as well. besides I can call up both and have either available should I want to anyway, so what's the problem?
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Kannada film dubbed in 3 foreign languages!Ganesh who was last seen in Style King has completed his next project Zoom and the film is ready to hit the screens. It is a proud moment for Kannadigas as Zoom has been dubbed in three international languages, a milestone for the Kannada film ... Times of India, 1 day ago
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FAN MOMENT Sridhar V Sambhram, who won his debut Filmfare award for his music in Krishna Leela, had, in his acceptance speech, said that receiving the award in the presence of his idol AR Rahman made it most memorable for him, as he was the ...Times of India, 1 week ago
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'Rap was a great platform to express myself'
For Kannada rapper Karthik Sundar Gubbi, his musical journey was inspired by rapper Eminem. This youngster, who loves balancing work and his passion, has sung for Kannada films and goes by the stage name 'Gubbi'. In a tete-e-tete with ...Deccan Herald, 1 week ago
Writer's block: The evolution of Kannada cinema
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In the garden
A nose for roses
Gorgeous roses have bloomed all around us during the last month, and seeing them tempts gardeners and landowners to add these magnificent plants to their landscapes.
Many, many varieties are available, and choosing the right rose to get what you want can be confusing.
Just some of the options include hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, and miniatures. Then there are old garden and modern roses, and shrub, tree and climbing roses. And, of course, there are also the ramblers and the polyanthas.
It always helps to talk to an experienced specialist, in this case a rosarian.
Henrico master gardener Don Penzler is a consulting rosarian for the American Rose Society and an active member of the Richmond Rose Society.
"The first question I ask is how much care you are willing to give a rose," said Penzler. "Are you willing to feed it once a month, give it enough water and treat it for diseases or insects?"
Your answers to these questions and a look at the space where you're planning to plant can help you decide what type of rose is right for you.
Roses can be grown in the garden or in a container, provided it is large enough. They need a minimum of six hours of sunlight each day. Without sufficient sun, roses produce fewer blooms and are more susceptible to diseases.
They also need fertile soil that allows for good drainage.
Roses need 1-2 inches of water weekly, more in hot weather, less in cool. "I recommend using a rain gauge," said Penzler. "A rain gauge is a good idea for any gardener. You can tell how much water you're getting from rainfall, and how much you need to provide."
Penzler recommends watering the ground around the rose inside the dripline rather than watering leaves. Overhead watering can contribute to diseases like blackspot.
Blackspot is the most common plant disease that affects roses. Black spots appear on leaves and within days the leaves begin to yellow and later drop from the plant. Spraying roses can help fight the disease as well as control common insect pests such as Thrips and Spider Mites.
"Many people today don't have the time to spray their roses or they don't want to use the chemicals," said Penzler, "so the American Rose Society has become focused on disease-resistant roses."
Penzler said that Old Garden roses, Knockout roses and many of the David Austin varieties are good choices for disease resistance.
Roses need to be fertilized and deadheaded during the blooming season to insure healthy plants that continue to bloom. They also need to be pruned at the start of the season, and protected during winter months.
Penzler recommends taking a look at the Richmond Rose Society's website for additional information about planting and caring for roses and a list of roses that are recommended for the Richmond area.
Members of the Richmond Rose Society will also be available on May 19 and 20 at Strange's Nursery in Short Pump to help people figure out what rose best suits their needs, and the Society will hold its annual rose show at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden over the Memorial Day weekend.
County plans Fourth of July event
Henrico County Recreation and Parks will present "Red, White, and Lights" at Meadow Farm Museum/Crump Park July 4.
Henrico County has hosted a Fourth of July celebration annually since 1981, but this year's event will offer a later start time and expanded hours and be highlighted by new entertainment.
The free event will begin at 4:30 p.m. and will feature the Richmond Symphony, a laser-light show, patriotic performances, and family activities. > Read more.
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The Tuckahoe Family YMCA and ReEstablish Richmond will host the third-annual Refugee Community Resource Fair Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to noon at the YMCA, 9211 Patterson Avenue in Henrico. The event is designed to provide refugees in the region information about jobs, local businesses, housing, health care, education and more.
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Lexapro (escitalopram) is an antidepressant that works by restoring the balance of chemicals in the bran. This is a SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) used to treat depression and anxiety in people to whom it was prescribed. Never combine this medicine with any of the following MAO inhibitors as a dangerous reaction is possible: phenelzine, rasagiline, selegiline, isocarboxazid, and tranylcypromine. At least 14 days are supposed to pass before you will be table to take Lexapro after taking your last dose of any of the MAO inhibitors mentioned. Make sure you always tell your health care provider about any other medicines you are taking at the moment, such as blood thinners, almotriptan, zolmitriptan, cimetidine, frovatriptan, lithium, and any other antidepressants. Some drugs you are taking may add to the sleepiness Lexapro can cause, so you will need to be very careful when combining it with seizure or anxiety medications, narcotic pain medicines, cold or allergy medicines, sleeping pills, and muscle relaxers. Some people taking this medication may get suicidal at the beginning of the treatment. The risk is higher for those younger than 24, so if you belong to this age group your doctor will have you show up for regular check ups during the first couple of months of your treatment. Make sure you keep taking this medicine even if you feel no improvement, as it may take you up to 4 weeks to feel the effects of taking Lexapro. This medicine is not intended for patients younger than 12 and you are not supposed to give to your child if he or she is younger than that. The following side effects are sometimes reported by patients taking Lexapro: dry mouth, dizziness, ringing in your ears, insomnia, drowsiness, weight changes, gas, mild nausea, decreased sex drive, constipation, heartburn, and upset stomach. The side effects mentioned are minor (insignificant). You will probably not need to report them to your health care provider, as they are unlikely to last for too long. The mild side effects mentioned most often indicate your body is adjusting to the dose prescribed - only doing so a bit slower than usual. However, there are some serious side effects sometimes possible. Your doctor will need to be notified of the fact you develop any of the following serious side effects: trouble concentrating, diarrhea, fast or uneven heartbeats, shallow breathing, loss of coordination, tremors, high fever, vomiting, memory problems, loss of appetite, and rigid muscles. Avoid taking more of this medicine, even if you missed a dose. The missed dose needs to be taken as soon as possible except for the cases hen you are going to take the next dose pretty soon. In that case you will need to skip the dose you missed and go back to the regular dosing schedule. Taking a double dose can cause an overdose and it unlikely to make your treatment more successful. The following symptoms of an overdose are possible: dizziness, confusion, seizures, tremor, vomiting, sweating, rapid heartbeat, and nausea.


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Faster growth for Plant TycoonHome / iPhone - iPad /
This page contains Plant Tycoon Hints for iPhone - iPad called "Faster growth" and has been posted or updated on Jul 29, 2012 by Bri187.
- Developer: Last Day Of Work
- Publisher: Last Day Of Work
- Genre: Edutainment
- Release: Nov 26, 2010
- ESRB: Not Set
Faster growth
When you are playing plant tycoon it gets frustrating waiting for your plants to grow. Well now you don't have to wait. you can go into your ipod settings and set your click forward. The game will recognize a later time and set your flowers accordingly. When you want your ipod to be set at the correct time, just change it and open the game again. Your progress is saved and you have mature plants.
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If you know other secrets, hints, glitches or level guides, then please Submit your Cheats and share your insights with other gamers.
Stuck in this game? Set a specific, clearly defined question and let other gamers answer your question or view answers to previously asked questions. If you think you are an expert then please try to help others with their questions.
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This is a very neat looking game. The stylised look to it is very memorable. I'm sure I'll always be in the survival mode lol. I can really see myself spending hours in that mode ha.
I think your design work is great. Nothing looks out of place. The tiles go great with the overworld and the UI fits perfect with the style.
I know this is in the early stages, so I want to wish you luck