1. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1995
   Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
2. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
4. The Case for Socialism 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2005   Published: 2010
   An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
5. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1980
   
6. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
7. Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011 
   Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
8. The Health Care Crisis and Kerry-Bush
   Against The Current vol. 111
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2004
   A permanent crisis has plagued American health care since 1981. It began with Ronald Reagan, whose tax cuts led to cuts in Medicaid as well as more stringent eligibility rules. The crisis has continued, even through the boom years presided over by Bill Clinton, to the present.
9. Health For People in the 1980's A Work in Progress
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1980
   
10. Lean & Mean Health Care
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Chern examines the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of being an industry and how this will regulate, standardize, and consolidate the healthcare system.
11. The Massachusetts Plan: "Universal Coverage"?
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On April 12, 2006 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation that is being touted nationally as the model for providing health care for all people. The goal of the legislation is to provide health insurance for the State's 780,000 people who have no health insurance, by July 1, 2007.
12. The National Health Program Book
    A Source Guide for Advocates
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Facts, statistics, and myth-debunking about the Canadian health insurance system and about competing proposals for reform of the U.S. health care system. Part I covers the Economic Context of the Health Care Crisis: Rising Costs, Declining Coverage and Incomes; Part II covers the Impact of the Crisis: Care Denied and Delayed; Part III covers the Social Cost of the American System: Poor Health care Leads to Poor Health. Part IV covers Rationing in the Midst of Plenty. Part V focuses on Exploring the Alternative: Canada's National Health Program. Part VI looks at Why Our System Costs More and Delivers Less: Administrative Waste in U.S. Health Care. Part VII deals with a National Health Program for the U.S.. Part VIII covers Paying for a National Health Program. Part IX looks at President Clinton's Plan: Making Insurance Companies the Feudal Lords of American Medicine. Part X is A Force for Change: Public Opinion on Health Care Reform. Part XI is A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal.
    
13. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Website
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
14. Privatization by Stealth: Canadian Health Care in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The recent growth of obstacles to getting health care here in the United States has led to a renewed interest in Canada's system of universal access, called Medicare. Premium inflation has accelerated after stabilizing in the mid-1990s.
15. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
16. Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
    'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    
17. Strong Medicine
    How to Save Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
18. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
19. VA Care is for Data
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Data production takes priority over concrete patient care itself in the new healthcare assembly line, as evidenced in the Veteran's Administration scandal.
20. The Waiting Room
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    The film watches a Californian hospital for a full day, observing what patients and staff go through as they deal with the over-crowded, under-funded US health care system.
21. Wasting Away
    The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
22. What is Meant by 'Single-Payer' in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Single-payer means that most of the funds used to pay for medical care are public, that is, they are paid with taxes. The government, through a public authority, is the most important payer for medical care services and uses this power to influence the organization of health care. The overwhelming majority of developed countries have one form or another of a single-payer system.
23. Whose Health Care?
    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    
24. Why U.S.-Style Health Reform Does Not Work and What to Do about It
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Ending the corporate domination of healthcare is part of breaking the domination of the corporate class over our government and our lives. The task is to organize a mass movement that refuses to treat healthcare as a commodity.

Experts on Gesundheitsreform in the Sources Directory

1. College of Nurses of Ontario