The buttons (clickable GREY BOXES) below provide direct links to national news and information. You can return from there by simply closing that window (use in 'x' in upper right corner) when you complete browsing the news. Included are chronological lists of reports from medical journals, reports on uninsurance, and searchable sites for national news articles on managed care and health insurance.

Note that the several sites maintained by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have been included because they are well-maintained and include valuable information for our visitors. The perspective of that organization, however, is that a national single-payer health insurance program is required to fix the current problems. This is not the view of the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Healthcare. We our engaged in a dialogue about possible solutions. Nonetheless, the single-payer solution is favored by some portion of our members and falls within the range of possible solutions that would be consistent with our principles. We would gladly include links to additional news and opinion from additional perspectives also falling within the breadth of our principles.

First the one news site maintained by the Committee to Defend Health Care:

This button will take you to recent reports from both medical journals & newspapers relating to the current U.S. health system, problems with both for-profit managed care and with the large U.S. uninsured population. This site was created and is maintained by the Rhode Island Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Healthcare and adds several reports each month.    

The five buttons below take our visitors to news & reports maintained by PNHP

    (see disclaimer for PNHP viewpoint one paragraph above)

1)     Statistics and recent changes on the number of uninsured Americans

2)     Frequently asked Questions about National Health Insurance

3)     Recent Press Releases from PNHP, such as:
    The Lower Quality of Care in For-Profit vs. Non-Profit HMO's.

4)     Why a single-payer healthcare system is needed.

5)     Fact Sheet on the Single-Payer System    

Suggestions for national searches for health insurance news:

Here we suggest search strategies which can be useful for reports in the popular media from around the U.S. on topics of interest here (managed care, uninsurance). These, of course include all perspectives including many articles favorable to the insurance industry and their professional public relations staff (paid out of our healthcare dollars).
Go to www.nandosearch.com and type "managed care" into the first field at top.
A list of the most recent national news articles will appear with the most recent at the top. Scan through these titles for the articles of interest.    
Please send further suggestions for on-line news searches to the Webmaster