Steven Hill Linkography: Health Care

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French Protesters: "Where Are You Americans?"
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted 23 October 2010 - The Washington Monthly. Obama's health care reform started us in the right direction but does not take us even half way there. It was a major step toward providing universal coverage, but still to come is reining in costs. Given the outrageous premiums that the greedy, gouging health care corporations charge, the French wonder why the Americans are not out protesting like they are.

Steven Hill on Health Care Reform
Interview: Sep 16, 2009 FLYP Online Multimedia Magazine. Steven Hill talks about where the health care proposals stand now, and what’s standing in Obama’s way. Getting the Blue Dog Democrats back in line is the first step, and Hill offers up a strategy for making that happen.

Returning the Senate to Majority Rule
Article: 18 March 2010 - Roll Call. Standing at the edge of the health care precipice, President Barack Obama has reached a defining point in his presidency. The recent news that Anthem Blue Cross is planning to jack up individual premiums as much as 40 percent is just the latest example of our flailing health care system. Spiraling costs are the greatest long-term threat to our nation. Obama must get this one right, otherwise the nation, as well as his presidency, is in trouble.

The Problem Is Minority Rule
Posted: 2 November 2009 - Huffington Post. The 40 Republican U.S. Senators represent barely a third of all Americans,
yet with one added Democratic vote they can stymie what most Americans want. The health care drama in the U.S. Senate is cresting. After months of hearings -- and decades of dithering --it is time to see if the United States is going to remain the only advanced industrial nation in the world that does not provide universal health care.
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Health Care Cooperatives Can Work
Posted October 30, 2009 - Huffington Post. Watching the torturous turns of the health care debate in Congress is mind-numbing, even for the most savvy policy wonks, let alone for members of the public. Each side in this debate has its own set of facts and scare statistics, and the resulting FUD -- have led to a colossal misunderstanding about health care cooperatives.

Tackling the Profit Problem in Healthcare: What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe
PDF:2010, Dream of a Nation Foundation, Extreme profits in the healthcare industry are responsible for driving up medical cost in the U.S. In Europe, health insurance companies are non-profit – they have no incentive to drive up costs – and they use negotiate standard fees for various procedures. As healthcare costs continue to spiral out of control in the U.S., it’s clear that reforms are vital to the future of healthcare.

Author Steven Hill: Health is More Than
Just Health Care
Interview: April 27, 2010 - KALW host Ben Trefny. We have some idea of how costly and cumbersome health coverage can be in the U.S., but how well how do we compare with other countries? Ben Trefny sat down with Hill to talk about how health is perceived differently across the pond. Hill’s research shows European health care costs are lower and coverage more comprehensive than in the United States.

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I See Nude People: The Miracle That Is Oslo’s
Vigeland Park
Blog posted: 22 September 2011 - from Zocalo Public Square, Norway. Last October, in Oslo, amid rainfall and the first cold breaths of winter, I ventured outdoors to a place I had visited before: Oslo’s Frogner Park, home to a work of genius called the Vigeland sculptures.

Oslo's Astonishing Vigeland Sculptures: A Celebration of Human Bodies and the Cycle of Life
Blog posted: 5 November 2010 - How's Europe Doing: The Washington Monthly. Various European health care systems are based on a principle of "people instead of profits." The gentle expression of these magnificent sculptures embodies this principle. The U.S., in sharp contrast, runs a for-profit commercial enterprise embodied in the iconic Wall Street Bull: greedy corporations and CEOs making hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries, bonuses and stocks.

Web exclusive : Steven Hill on Sculptures
for Humanity
Interview (audio): 27 April 2010 - KALW host Ben Trefny. Hill talks about his trip to the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, Norway. And how his walk in the open air among the larger than life statues of nude individuals, couples, groups, all different ages, all at different stages of life, inspired his inquiry into the European approach to health care.


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