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  • www.MassCare.org
    Web site for the Massachusetts Campaign For Single Payer Health Care Coalition.
  • Bleeding the Patient, the Consequences of Corporate Health Care. Himmelstein, David U., M.D. and Steffie Woolhandler M.D., M.P.H. with Ida Hellander M.D. Available February 2001 from Common Courage Press. Order now; it’ll be shipped on printing. (800.497.3207, www.commoncouragepress.com)
  • Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach. Bodenheimer, Thomas and Grumbach, Kevin. 1998, Appleton and Lang.
  • Chartbook, "Multinational Comparisons of Health Care Expenditures, Coverages and Outcomes". October 1998. Available free from The Commonwealth Fund, 212.606.3800, cmwf@cmwf.org or at www.cmwf.org
  • Free US Government Accounting Office (GAO) study on single payer called "Canadian Health Insurance Lesson for the United States", GAO/HRD-91-90. To order call 202.512.6000.
  • Majority (57 percent) of academic medicine physicians favor single payer.  Study in New England Journal of Medicine finds medical school deans, faculty, residents, and students favor single payer 3 to 1 over managed care (Source: Physicians for a National Health Program Press Release 3/24/99)
  • Journal for Health Politics, Policy, and Law. February 2000. Entire issue dedicated to individual health insurance market.
  • Kuttner, Robert, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets, Chapter 4: Markets and Medicine" 1997, Alfred A. Knopf.
 
         

 

 

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