COLUMBUS, Ohio — A sweeping proposal to replace much of Ohio’s private health insurance system with a government-run ...

In this interview, Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, an advocacy group that works extensively on healthcare, explains why he believes moving to a single-payer system is the only way to ...

The idea of a government-run universal health care program that would replace private insurance as the sole payer of health care costs faces as many headwinds as ever. It had fallen onto the ...

California progressives’ single-payer health care fever dream is back. This time, the cost could hit half a trillion dollars ...

A single-payer health system could mean a variety of changes for the healthcare system, depending on its design. One thing is clear, according to the Congressional Budget Office: All participants ...

Slightly more physicians prefer a single-payer healthcare system compared to a multiple-payer system, a MDLinx.com survey found. 1. Forty-eight percent of those polled favor a single-payer system with ...

There is slightly more physician support for a single-payer system over a multiple-payer system, although only 35.2 percent of physicians projected a single-payer system would improve or ...

The VA scandal and the demise of the Vermont plan were not the only defeats for a single-payer system in 2014. Activists in Colorado failed to get enough signatures to get a single-payer measure on ...

Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) has introduced or reintroduced a form of the bill four times over the past five years.

As the debate surrounding health care in this country heats up, advocates of a single-payer system are pushing hard for a national system that would provide coverage to everyone. On the national level ...

Coloradans have a right to expect transparency, accountability and fiscal responsibility from public institutions.

The progressive goal of single-payer health care has become a staple of Democratic platforms, even if it faces as many ...