Views of the ACA Now Reps Dems Inds Working well, keep as is 6% 1% 14% 5% Good things, but changes needed 60% 41% 73% 61% Needs to be repealed entirely 32% 56% 13% 32% In the five years since it’s passage, polling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still remarkably consistent. The above […]

Donald Berwick ran a campaign for governor of Massachusetts (home of Romneycare the model for the Affordable Care Act) on a single payer platform.  Previously he ran the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services in the Department of Health and Human Services.  He ran against better funded candidates State Attorney General Martha Coakley (who had […]

Donny Deutsch at MSNBC’s Morning Joe claimed that “Once again the party of no,” Deutsch said on July 1, 2014. “The country’s will was for immigration reform, they’re against it. Minimum wage, we want to raise it for everybody, another populist point of view. They don’t want to do it. By the way, 13 percent […]

Hi All.  It was a great concert on Saturday night with a great turnout.  Mike Stout and the Human Union debuted a new song and video which can be seen above. All 221 posts from this blog have been exported into the blog on the state page which can be seen at the link below.  […]

In my post on Pennsylvania’s uninsured, I wrote that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was having little effect in Pennsylvania’s rate of uninsured.  I wrote in another post that I received skeptical comments on my first post. I said in that post that I would look at changes in the rates in other states.  I couldn’t then because the […]

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 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.  […]

On Saturday, March 16, I went to a talk at the Newman Center in Pittsburgh titled: Wine, Cheese, and Catholic Response to Healthcare Reform   It was given by pediatrician Brian Donnelly, MD.  He spoke mostly of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraception and abortion mandate.  He did not directly address the need for comprehensive […]

I don’t have anything to say about the Newtown shootings or the fiscal cliff.  I’ve written posts on those topics before on the mass shooting which occurred a mile from where I live in 2009 and on the debt ceiling talks which are now being made and rerun from July 2011.  In my last post […]

I have an article published on Vermont’s Single Payer health care law passed last year in this month’s issue of The Thomas Merton Center’s newspaper, The New People.  It was adapted from a post on the PUSH blog which you can read here.  The New People article can be seen on page 3 in the […]