The Maryland General Assembly has scheduled a March 9 public hearing on a bill that would take a far more aggressive approach toward health reform in the state than passed at the federal level last year.

Vermont legislators are considering the possibility of creating the nation’s first single-payer health insurance system to control health care costs.

Former President Jimmy Carter says the federal health reform that was passed in March could have occurred decades ago and in a more sweeping way.

The Boston-based hospital that treats the greatest number of Massachusetts’ poor residents has filed suit against the state, accusing it of illegally cutting funds to the hospital as a means …  Read →

From their own mouths come the words that they use to describe the future of single-payer, universal, socialized health care: “It will come.”

The push is on in Maryland to have a universal health care road map ready to use when the Obama Administration and Capitol Hill finalize the direction of their expansive …  Read →

Three of Maryland’s black chambers of commerce announced their support for a universal health care proposal for state residents.

Leaders of the Greater Baltimore Black Chamber of Commerce, the Black Chamber …  Read →

A pair of New York lawmakers has introduced a bill to provide government-financed universal health insurance they say will save tens of billions of dollars.

Richard Gottfried

Assemblymember Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) …  Read →

According to today’s (April 30) Congressional Quarterly journal: “Congressional Democrats appear increasingly determined to create a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers as part of a health care …  Read →

Ready to tackle issues surrounding the outbreak of swine flu gripping the United States, new U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will find no smaller challenge in helping …  Read →