BIRTHING JUSTICE: One System for All -- Universal Access to Health Care | Other Worlds

BIRTHING JUSTICE: One System for All -- Universal Access to Health Care | Other Worlds

The Associated Press: Mentally ill inmates sue to get out of solitary

The Associated Press: Mentally ill inmates sue to get out of solitary:

"But prisoners' rights advocates around the nation say putting mentally ill inmates in long-term solitary confinement amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. In some states, activists are pushing court challenges to get convicts out of isolation."

We have way too many people doing things to get put in jail in order to get needed medical care because they can not afford to get it on their own.  Now we also have to face the fact that for persons suffering from mental illness we send them to jail in order to avoid paying for needed mental health treatment.  Jails have become a hidden part of our health care system.  One we need to address as part of reform.

Modernize medical payment systems | StarTribune.com

Modernize medical payment systems | StarTribune.com:
This guy gives the one of the best arguments ever for single payer.  I know he is selling his company's service but we shouldn't need it if we'd just see the light and enact single payer.