"The Senate Finance Committee's hearings on health reform earlier this month did not include testimony from any advocate for single-payer insurance. Physicians for a National Health Program, which represents 16,000 doctors, asked the committee to invite me to testify, but it chose not to. If I had been invited, this is what I would have said..."

"President Obama: Where have you gone?"

"Ensuring the Insurers: Obama's Health Care Plan"

This is an excellent article by Indiana University's Professor Emeritus Milton Fisk.

"AHIP Has a Plan for You"

Read how well Dr. Walker cuts through the BS of the newest insurance industry scam.

Health Care is a Moral Issue

by Rev. Kevin Boyd, given at our Birthday Bash on July 26

"Healthcare Rally/Medicare Birthday Party, August 8, 2009"

Here's Pat Moore

Here's Dr. Tom Hayhurst

Here's Rev. Kevin Boyd

Here's Molly Brogan

"Pictures from Indianapolis, May 20, 2009">

"Hoosiers' Kenna honored by National Association of Social Workers"

This is a story from Dan Jehl on Edith Kenna's winning of an award from the Region 3 National Association of Social Workers.

Health Care Heroes

Dr. Walker (right-front) and Eve Bratton (not pictured), both members of HCHP, were presented awards as Health Care Heroes from Fort Wayne Business Weekly.

Universal Health Insurance Coverage or Economic Relief -- A False Choice

New England Journal of Medicine, January 29, 2009
by Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D.

"These are exciting times for advocates of universal health care coverage, with sizable Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress and a Democratic president who made universal coverage a central pledge of his campaign..."

Replace for-profit insurance with Medicare for all

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, January 5, 2009
by Dr. Rob Stone

"When debating how to fix our ailing health care system, someone always says, 'There's an 800-pound gorilla in the room, and it's the insurance industry. No matter how we want to reform health care, they are so powerful they are going to call the shots'..."

There is a cure available for current plan

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14, 2008
by Dr. Oliver Fein

"The report last week that the U.S. economy lost nearly 2 million jobs this year, and 533,000 jobs in November alone, sent shudders through our nation's households. That's the biggest one-month plunge in jobs in 34 years..."

Couple divorce to afford cancer treatment

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, July 6, 2008
by Michael Schroeder

Medicaid requires joint income less than $956 a month

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Dr. Jonathan Walker wrote an Op-Ed for the Sunday, May 26, 2008 Journal Gazette

Here's Dr. Rob Stone's blog entry for the demonstration at Anthem/Wellpoint on May 21.

Here's a related story from the demonstration; this one quotes Dr. Stone.

American health care system needs massive overhaul

Letter to the Editor - Journal Gazette, June 1, 2008
by Eston Hougland

"In the first place, this program can be compared to placing a Band-aid on a 12-inch gash in one's broken leg. Providing some health care relief for a small segment of the population sounds laudable, but it's a long way from any type of real solution to a complex problem..." Read More...

Dan Jehl's article on healthcare is out now!

U.S. health care system barbaric

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, July 15, 2008
by Jonathan D. Walker, M.D.
(Jonathan D. Walker, M.D., whose letter appeared July 15, has been selected as last month's Golden Pen Award winner.)

"Thank you so much for the story about the couple who had to get divorced in order to take care of their medical bills, "Couple divorce to afford cancer treatment ... " Read More ...

Expand successful Medicare program to all

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, July 21, 2008
by Edith Kenna

"July 30 is the 43rd anniversary of the passage of Medicare. Medicare began because no one except the government was willing to cover the oldest and sickest of us. Medicare now covers 34 million Americans. Consumer ratings of Medicare remain higher than that of private insurance companies..." Read More...

Nonprofit hospitals, once for the poor, strike it rich

Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2008
by John Carreyrou

"Nonprofit hospitals, originally set up to serve the poor, have transformed themselves into profit machines. And as the money rolls in, the large tax breaks they receive are drawing fire..." Read More...

Docs Warming to National Health Care

Dr. Jonathan Walker, Dr. Bill Cast interviewed in Journal Gazette, April 4, 2008
story by Michael Schroeder

Also in the 04/04 edition, also written by Michael Schroeder, was the story: "460 Hoosiers Die Uninsured a Year".

The Myth of 'Best in the World'

Newsweek, March 31, 2008
by Sharon Begley

"In international comparisons of health care, the infant mortality rate is a crucial indicator of a nation's standing, and the United States' position at No. 28, with seven per 1,000 live births--worse than Portugal, Greece, the Czech Republic, Northern Ireland and 23 other nations not exactly known for cutting-edge medical science--is a tragedy and an embarrassment..." Read More...

US Doctors Support Universal Health Care

Reuters, March 31, 2008

"More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea, according to a survey published on Monday. The survey suggests that opinions have changed substantially since the last survey in 2002 and as the country debates serious changes to the health care system..." Read More...

The results of the 2008 Health Care America survey from the AFL-CIO - be sure to click through and read the entire story.

And here's a story from the New England Journal of Medicine: "Market-Based Failure - A Second Opinion on U.S. Health Care Costs" by Robert Kuttner

This just in: Report: Lack of health coverage linked to death rate by Susan Erler of the NWI Times.

Published April 15, 2008, this article may be of interest: "Comparing The Assets Of Uninsured Households To Cost Sharing Under High-Deductible Health Plans"

"Sick Around the World" - Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? A Frontline show that aired the week of April 20, 2008.

In 2003, the Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders, representing a broad spectrum of Jewish and Christian communities in Southern California, convened a Health Care Task Force, whose charge was to study the crisis in health care coverage and to suggest remedies appropriate for these religious groups to support. Over the last year and a half the task force has met with many of the stakeholders in this issue - hospital and health plan executives, health activists, providers, public health scholars, elected officials, and theologians. This report represents their conclusions.

Guest column in the May 1, 2008 News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) from Edith Kenna: "This is 'Cover the Uninsured Week;' let's find common-sense health plan"