State board member Mike Stout (pictured below) and the Human Union Band will be holding a Health Care is a Human Right concert on June 7. The press release is below with a preview of their new song. PRESS RELEASE: Legendary Rock Concert for Social Justice in Pittsburgh! Mike Stout and The Human Union in […]

This is a repost from the Healthcare for All PA/PUSH Website. The Keystone Research Center is a great resource for economic data on Pennsylvania.  They have come out with a report on the state of wages in PA.  Above is a graph from their report showing how wages have declined since the recession began in […]

The Healthcare for All PA/ PUSH page has posted a press release from the state wide organization announcing the release of an economic impact study showing how a Single Payer healthcare system can cover everyone in Pennsylvania while controlling costs for businesses.  It is reprinted below.  There are many excellent posts on single payer at […]

The Census Bureau has two estimates of the uninsured that comes out every year.  One for the national and state level which is based on the Current Population Survey and the other for the State and County level which is the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates or SAHIE that I’ve written many posts about here.  […]

I have been posting less on this blog lately partly because things have been heating up on the Pennsylvanian’s United for Single Payer/Healthcare for All PA site in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).  For example our new blogger Scott Tyson, MD has posted articles by state […]

Last Friday I did a post on the PUSH site showing how healthcare polling has remained consistent in the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act.  Last night I came across a tweet by Michele Bachmann stating: MicheleBachmann ‏@MicheleBachmann 18 Jun 83% of surveyed doctors considering leaving medical industry […]

My new guest post on the PUSH website is now up looking at the uninsured and the 2010 PA Senate race.  PUSH: Correlating PA’s Uninsured with Sen Pat Toomey’s 2010 Vote **Related Posts** Making Sense of the Pat Toomey-Joe Sestak Senate Race    POLL: Dislike of healthcare law crosses party lines, 1 in 4 Dems […]

My new post for Pennsylvanian’s United for Single Payer Healthcare (PUSH) is up correlating the updated PA County % uninsured data with other county health and demographic data.  PUSH: Correlating PA County % Uninsured Rates with Other County Level Measures

The local Pittsburgh chapter of Healthcare 4 All  PA is launching it’s own site with several talented authors.  The link with the first post on gender and racial differences in Pennsylvania’s uninsured can be seen here. Pennsylvanians United for Single Payer Healthcare year % uninsured white MOE +/- % % uninsured black MOE +/- % […]

My new guest post is up on the Health Care 4 All PA as the new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates or SAHIE are out for the years 2008 and 2009 for each county in the United States.  I reported the county estimates for the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 in the 67 counties in […]