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Here are some important articles on healthcare, together with comments:
2004-01-11 -- Debtor's Prison for patients with unpaid bills
2009-01-09 -- Health Access Statement on Schwarzenegger budget
2004-01-09 --Drop in unemployment is drop-off of discouraged workers
2004-01-09 -- State and Local Programs Seek to Aid the Uninsured (sic)
2004-01-09 -- Schwarzenneger Budget: preliminary look
2004-01-09 -- Budget Protest; Sick budgets, sick kids
2004-01-09 -- HEATH ACCESS HEALTH AND BUDGET ADVOCACY CALENDAR
2009-01-09 -- Health Spending at Record Rate
2004-01-08 -- A wide health care gap: minority, poor neighborhoods lag
2004-01-08 -- LETTERS: More than ever. Health Care Crisis hit SF
2004-01-06 -- Despite New Law, the Fight Over Medicare Continues
2004-01-05 -- Mad Cow Disease A Byproduct Of Beef Industry Profits
2004-01-05 -- State Budgets Still Reeling, Corporate taxation declines
2004-01-05 -- Access to Medicines: New Medicare law, Canadian Imports
2004-01-04 -- OPINION: "How to Talk to Business about Health Care Reform"
2004-01-04 -- Bush 2005 budget cuts to housing, vets, and jobless
2004-01-04 -- Medicare's drug benefit worse than some states' existing programs
2004-01-03 -- Stop Racist Harassment at City Facilities
2004-01-02 -- Britain Says U.S. Planned to Seize Oil in '73 Crisis
2004-01-01 -- HEALTH ACCESS UPDATE (SB2, Medi-Cal provider cuts, Budget)
2004-01-01 -- Schwarzenegger to Swing Big Ax on Budget to be Released January
9th
2003-12-31 -- Calif Healthcare Assn undermines nurse staffing law
2003-12-30 -- Our So-Called Boom
2003-12-29 -- More fine print in the phony Medicare Drug law
2003-12-28 -- US demands Medicare, Medicaid pay HMO-negotiated charges
2002-12-27 -- Even Without a Flu Epidemic, ERs Are in Crisis
2003-12-26 -- State Budget Cuts making 1.6 million more uninsured
2003-12-25 -- Worse health for California immigrants, but new Prop 187 pushed
2003-12-25 -- Grocery Strike News
2003-12-24 -- Cuts in Medi-Cal Payments to Providers Blocked
2003-12-23 -- Two important articles on healthcare workers under attack
2003-12-23 -- NY State Medicaid Plan Would Restrict Nursing Homes
2003-12-23 -- Two reports on racial disparities in health
2003-12-22 -- Wall St Journal's tips to ease rationing
2003-12-22 -- US Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in Workplace
2003-12-22 -- The Ownership Society
2003-12-20 -- San Francisco Safeway Demonstration: A Proposal
2003-12-20 -- AARP drops out of Social Security forums
2003-12-19 -- States Cut Health Spending on the Poor
2003-12-18 -- Grocery Workers' Health Fund May Run Out of Money in Days
2003-12-17 -- Pharmacies, state battle over Medi-Cal cutbacks
2003-12-15 -- CNA and SEIU reach accord
2003-12-14 -- Support Grocery Strike for Healthcare
2003-12-14 -- Republicans Turn Efforts to the Uninsured
2003-12-12 -- Suit Against Medi-Cal Cuts
2003-12-12 -- Schwartzenegger, Legislature agree on March 04 budget initiative
2003-12-09 -- HEALTH ACCESS UPDATE ON BUDGET AND HEALTH FUNDING
2003-12-09 -- Retirees Will Not Have Adequate Funds for Health Care Costs
2003-12-08 -- Long Wait for Colonoscopy in ... the US
2003-12-07 -- Stealth Merger: Drug Companies and Government Medical Research
2003-12-07 -- New Medicare Bill Bars Extra Insurance for Drugs
2003-12-07 -- State budget caps, bond measure temporarily forestalled
2003-12-06 -- Albertsons reports 50% profit drop, Grocery strike animates LA
labor
2003-12-05 -- Recovery of steel industry costs retirees their pensions and
healthcare
2003-12-05 -- ARA exposes AARP lies
2003-12-04 -- Higher Copayments Can Lead Patients to Stop Taking Medication
2003-12-03 -- Health Industry Bidding to Hire Medicare Chief
2003-12-01 -- "Non Profit" hospitals skirting care of poor
2003-11-29 -- The Health Savings Account Tsunami
2003-11-28 -- The Occupation's War on Iraqi Workers
2003-11-28 -- Homelessness and Thanksgiving
2003-11-26 -- Schwarzenegger proposes mid-year health cuts
2003-11-26 -- AARP faces Rebellion in ranks over Medicare
2003-11-25 -- How Medicare Restructuring Was Won
2003-11-25 -- Bush Poised To Claim Victory
2003-11-25 -- Congressional Budget Analysts say Medicare Drug Benefit will Fade
2003-11-22 -- AARP advocates for rich seniors and drug and insurance industries
2003-11-21 -- AARP will make millions from Medicare bill
2003-11-19 -- AARP Chief Under Fire On the Medicare Bill
2003-11-19 -- APHA opposes Medicare Plan, AARP chief praises Medicare plan
2003-11-18 -- NY Times op-ed favors a universal single-payer VOUCHER system
2003-11-16 -- Anti-Tommy Thompson activity at APHA
2003-11-14 -- Paul Krugman, The (Medicare) Trojan Horse
2003-11-14 -- Medicare Prescription-Privatization Conference fails, Plan B next
2003-11-12 -- Tentative Pact on Medicare Prescription-Privatization Bill
2003-11-12 - House GOP Offers to Delay Direct Completion
2003-11-09 -- Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California Connection
2003-11-10 -- Grocery Workers Struggle against
Health Cuts and Two-Tier Expands
2003-11-10 - Enacting Limits on Medicare Spending
Endangers Program
2003-11-09 -- Congressional Conference Committee
Determined on Medicare Restructuring
2003-11-08 -- A Vision for the Mental Health System
2003-11-07 - Government Cracks Down on Canadian Drug Imports
2003-11-04 -- Institute of Medicine Report Cites Danger in Long Nurses' Hours
2003-11-04 -- Government Plans the Demise of
Medicare
2003-11-04 -- Summary: Supreme Court will hear Suits Against HMOs
2003-11-03 -- New Medicare Drug Benefit Will Not
Reduce Drug Costs Much
2003-11-03 -- Patient Suits Against HMOs Back in Court
2003-11-02 -- More U.S. Families Hungry or Too Poor to Eat, USDA Study Says
2003-11-01 -- Health Insurer Mergers Speed Move to
Consumer Driven Health care
2003-10-31 -- Medicare Restructuring Gives Insurers
$12 Billion to Develop New Programs
2003-10-31 -- Alliance for Retired Americans
Medicare Restructuring
2003-10-31 -- Medicare Drug Plan a Boon to Drug
Manufacturers
2003-10-30 -- Statement of San Francisco Doctors Opposing Prop M
2003-10-30 -- More on the Southern California Grocery Strike for Health Benefits
2003-10-29 -- Minorities Lag in Quality of Health and Services, Study Shows
2003-10-28 -- Unemployment, Anxiety, Hunger, and the Recovery
2003-10-28 -- Means Testing Will Help Kill Medicare
2003-10-25 -- Congress Planning to Curb Growth of Medicare Budget
2003-10-24 -- Medicare HMO Costs Rise, Kaiser Reduces Rx Benefits,
Increases Rates
2003-10-24 -- Yes on Proposition H to Fight Police Abuse
2003-10-24 -- More on the Showdown on Medicare Restructuring
2003-10-23 -- Governor-Elect Chooses HMO Executive as his Chief of Staff
2003-10-23 -- Showdown Approaching on Medicare Prescription-Privatization Bill
2003-10-22 -- Workers increasingly uninsured by employers
2003-10-21 -- New poll indicates support of government-run healthcare
2003-10-21 -- How jails are being used as mental facilities
2003-10-21 -- Sick, Injured Reservists Rip Army Healthcare
2003-10-19 -- California State Workers Facing Layoffs
2003-10-18 -- California Healthcare Legislative Update
2003-10-18 -- German Parliament Votes to Cut Welfare Benefits and Taxes
2003-10-17 -- Disease Management as a Sales Tool for Drug Companies
2003-10-17 -- More Strikes over Employers Taking Back Health Benefits
2003-10-17 -- Why Prop M will fail
2003-10-16 -- Physicians for Effective Homeless Policies Oppose Prop M
2003-10-15 -- Biggest Shift in Employer-Based Healthcare in a Decade
2003-10-14 -- Suicide among US Troops in Iraq Alarms Military
2003-10-12 -- Welfare Spending Shows Huge Shift
2003-10-12 -- Veterans Administration Plans to Close Hospitals
2003-10-12 -- Alliance for Retired Americans Action in Bakersfield
2003-10-11 -- How Poverty, Racism, and Segregation Kill
2003-10-10 -- Update on Schwarzenegger's Transition Team
2003-10-10 --Restructuring both Medicaid and Medicare will Cut Healthcare
2003-10-06 -- Alliance for Retired Americans Rally Against
Medicare Privatization
2006-10-06 -- Means Testing is Harmful to Medicare
2003-10-05 -- Who Is Ward Connerly?
2003-10-05 -- Racial Disparities in Healthcare Within a Medicare Population
2003-10-02 -- Howard Dean Struggles with a Stance over Medicare
2003-09-30 -- News on House-Senate Negotiations on Medicare Restructuring
2003-09-30 -- The Largest Yearly Increase in Uninsured in a Decade
2003-09-25 -- Privatization's Ugly Results in Canada
2003-09-25 -- Medicare Prescription-Privatization update
2003-09-25 -- Rationing in a State-Supported Hospital
2003-09-23 -- Article and references on Colorblind Racism (Prop 54)
2003-09-22 -- Why We All Need to be in the Same Plan
2003-09-19 -- Patient Dumping Laws Dumped by Bush
2003-09-18 -- US Scientists Find No Evidence of Smallpox in Iraq
2003-09-17 -- Companies Drop Families from Employees' Health Plans
2003-09-17 -- House Conservatives List Requirements on Medicare
Prescription-Privatization
2003-09-17 -- Retirees Alarmed at Threat of Cuts in Drug Benefits
2003-09-15 -- Proposition 54's Effects on Healthcare
2003-09-15 -- Rationing: We'll Give Up Some Healthcare When ...
2003-09-13 -- SB2, Health Insurance Expansion Passes Legislature
2003-09-09 -- Bad As Deficits Are, They Are Grossly Underestimated
2003-09-05 -- Medicare and the Drug Manufacturers
2003-09-05 -- SB 2 Healthcare Expansion Bill in Conference Committee
2003-09-04 -- More on Eliminating Hospitals' Obligation to Provide Emergency
Care
2003-09-03 -- Great Article on the Rise of Poverty
2003-09-03 -- Nearly 1.4 Million Fell into Poverty Last Year
2003-09-02 -- Eliminating Hospitals' Obligation to Provide Emergency Care
2003-09-01 -- 72 pct Say Universal Healthcare More Important than Tax Cuts for
the Rich
2003-09-01 -- Parents Must Surrender Children to Get Them Mental Health
Treatment
2003-08-27 -- Congress squabbling over Medicare Restructuring
2003-08-21 -- Massive New Report on Potential Savings of Single Payer
2003-08-21 -- Some Kentucky Medicaid Recipients Losing Long-Term Care
2003-08-21 -- Ward Connerly's Proposition 54 Will Hurt Everyone's Health
2003-07-24 -- What's Wrong with the Medicare Restructuring Plan
2003-01-16 -- Colarado hospital chain not participating in smallpox vaccination
2003-05-19 -- Supreme Court OKs Maine affordable drug program
2003-05-18 – States that avoided smallpox shots voted against Bush
2003-05-16 -- Universal health service in Iraq
2003-05-16 -- Comments on California State Budget May Revision
2003-05-15 -- Restructuring Medicaid
2003-05-15 --Information on California Budget May Revision
2003-05-13 -- SARS battle strains US health system
2003-05-13 -- Proposed 15% Medi-Cal cuts will endanger 700 nursing homes
2003-05-12 -- AHPs, Stripped Down Health Plans to Insure the Uninsured
2003-05-10 -- British Parliament Backs Plans to Privatize Health Care
2003-05-11 – Rationing: "Making difficult decisions together ..." Yeah, right!
2003-05-04 -- Where "Universal Health Care" Means Stripped-Down Care for the
Uninsured
2003-05-01 -- Health Care Limps Up Political Ladder
2003-05-01 -- Older Hispanics Have Far More Diabetes and Uninsurance
2003-04-29 -- Crunch Time for Medicare Overhaul
2003-04-23 -- Drug makers Using Disease Management in State Medicaid Programs
2003-04-22 -- Plan to downgrade mental health facility causes uproar
2003-04-09 -- California Public Health Crisis a Warning to Nation
2003-04-05 -- An Excellent Statement on Smallpox from Washington State
2003-03-31 -- Depleted Uranium May Leave Both Sides a Legacy of Death
2003-03-31 -- Close the MHRF? Mental Health Already Neglected
2003-03-29 -- California Suspends Smallpox Vaccinations
2003-03-28 -- Link between Smallpox Vaccination and Heart Inflammation Stronger
2003-03-27 -- Too Few Beds in Bay Area Makes Disaster and Bioterror Planning
Problematic
2003-03-26 -- CDC Suspends Smallpox Vaccinations to People with Cardiac Risk
2003-03-20 – Too Few Bay Area Hospital Beds, Bioterror or Disaster Planning
Problematic
2003-03-20 -- Dr. Bill Frist says War Is the Best Medicine
2003-03-17 – Bush Pushes Plan to Curb Medicare Appeals
2003-03-14 -- Oregon Man Who Lost Drug Coverage Suffers Seizure
2003-03-14 -- "Our School of Public Health Needs to Take a Stand on War"
2003-03-10 -- Doctor's E-Mail Exposes Anti-Malpractice Protests as Anti-Patient
2003-03-05 -- Oregon Cuts Off Meds to Low-Income Mentally Ill
2003-03-04 -- Newest Twist on Medicare Restructuring
2003-03-04 -- 300,000 Mentally Ill in US Prisons
2003-02-28 -- Private hospital replacing DC General Hospital is on edge of
Collapse
2003-02-26 -- More on Restructuring Medicaid, an Attack on the Elderly and
Disabled
2003-02-24 -- Plans to Gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
2003-02-20 -- More news on Boycott Glaxo Campaign
2003-02-19 -- SF Health Commission Approves Base-line Cuts to 03-04 Budget
2003-02-17 -- San Francisco Health Dept Managers get $250,000 in Performance
Bonuses
2003-02-14 -- Letter from Bay Legal Against Eliminating Adult Dental Services
2003-02-13 -- During War with Iran, Iraqi Chemical Weapons were OK, more
referencs
2003-02-11 -- Doctors and Nurses Against the War, New Anti-War Group
2003-02-10 -- Homeland Security: Respiratory Therapists Face SWAT Teams, Snipers
2003-02-08 -- Health Workers Balk at Smallpox Vaccinations
2003-02-06 -- Conyers-McDermott Introduce Single Payer Bill
2003-02-05 -- Proposed 03-04 SF Health Dept Cuts
2003-02-03 -- Impending Medical Disaster in Iraq
2003-02-03 -- Cheney's role in Iraq and Bioterrorism Policy
2003-02-01 -- How Not to Fix Medicare
2003-07-03 -- Prime Suspect in Anthrax Attack worked for US and South African
governments
2003-01-30 -- Doubts Emerging on Bush Medicare Plan
2003-01-28 -- Anthrax: Bioweapons Research Comes Back to Haunt Us
2003-01-24 -- British Health Experts Warn Blair of Iraq War Consequences
2003-01-23 -- More Hospitals Refuse Smallpox Vaccinations Before an Outbreak
2003-01-22 -- The Ethics of Co-operating with the Smallpox Vaccination Campaign
2003-01-22 -- Business' Attack on Malpractice Suits Will Not Help Patients or
the Uninsured
2003-01-17 -- Institute of Medicine Report Criticizes Smallpox Vaccination
Program
2003-01-17 -- SEIU, AFSCME Oppose Smallpox Vaccination , Program is
Foundering
2003-01-17 -- Bush Pushes for Caps on Malpractice Awards
2003-01-17 -- Health Access Report on California Health Cutbacks
2003-01-16 -- Colorado Hospital Chain Not Participating in Smallpox Vaccinations
2003-01-16 -- Inst of Medicine Says Smallpox Vaccination Program Inadvisable
2003-01-14 -- All States Except Alabama Will Cut Medicaid Or Already Have
2003-01-13 -- LA Healthworkers. Facing Layoffs, March Against Iraq War
2003-01-13 – Movement to Cap Malpractice Awards Will Hurt Us, Not Help
2003-01-13 -- Crisis in Malpractice insurance, They Made Bad Investments
2003-01-13 -- New Website on Organizing Against the Smallpox Vaccination Program
2002-09-22-- The Dangers of ANTI-Bioterrorism
2002-05-21 -- Why Is the FBI Anthrax Investigation Stalled?
2001-10-15 – SPECIAL LEAFLET: What if Disaster Hits SF? We’ve Been There
for 10 years!
2001-02-11 -- SPECIAL: US Managed Care Companies Invade Underdeveloped World
2000-03-16 -- New England Jrnl of Medicine Justifies Early Discharge for Heart
Attack Patients
1999-09-13 -- County fights for
right to cutoff indigent care
1995-12-01 --SPECIAL ARTICLE: the twenty year campaign to take away health
care