The VA scandal and the demise of the Vermont plan were not the only defeats for a single-payer system in 2014. Activists in Colorado failed to get enough signatures to get a single-payer measure on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A sweeping proposal to replace much of Ohio’s private health insurance system with a government-run ...

Healthcare workers and advocates rallied at the New York State Capitol to demand state lawmakers pass the New York Health Act ...

In this interview, Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, an advocacy group that works extensively on healthcare, explains why he believes moving to a single-payer system is the only way to ...

Slightly more physicians prefer a single-payer healthcare system compared to a multiple-payer system, a MDLinx.com survey found. 1. Forty-eight percent of those polled favor a single-payer system with ...

A single-payer health system could mean a variety of changes for the healthcare system, depending on its design. One thing is clear, according to the Congressional Budget Office: All participants ...

As the debate surrounding health care in this country heats up, advocates of a single-payer system are pushing hard for a national system that would provide coverage to everyone. On the national level ...

There is slightly more physician support for a single-payer system over a multiple-payer system, although only 35.2 percent of physicians projected a single-payer system would improve or ...

Single-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians are moving to support it, a new survey finds. Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlie Munger looked at the American healthcare system and gave the kind of diagnosis that does not come with a gentle bedside ...

A group of more than 2,000 physicians is calling for the creation of a publicly financed, single-payer national health program that would cover all Americans for all medically necessary care. The ...

The key issue in the emerging national health care debate is the role of the federal government. While some Members of Congress favor a “single-payer” national health insurance system—”Medicare for ...