Billionaire and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) said Tuesday the United States needs a single-payer health ...

"Regardless of what it is called, the ultimate health-care-delivery system would be run by government bureaucrats who would make medical decisions based on politics and budgets." ...

Medscape Medical News talked with researcher Stacie Dusetzina about the prospects for a single-payer program to help with the ...

Countries that spend more on healthcare tend to have a higher life expectancy — a reasonable assumption. However, something ...

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 ...

A 12-year-old patient in the emergency department at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in December.. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) A new bill introduced in the California state Senate ...

For many Californians, the proposal of a state-run single-payer health system remains a ‘pie-in-the-sky’ idea, and odds are it could remain that way, especially if leading advocates can’t agree on how ...

Northern Light Health turning to a for-profit giant like Optum for “financial help” won’t help it mitigate billing- and insurance-related costs and underscores hospitals’ growing financial woes, ...