While reporting on a major study of single-payer, many media outlets missed the report’s conclusion that the US could save $2 trillion and cover everybody if the US were to abandon our current fractionalized, market-based system and expand Medicare to everyone. Hear Paul Song’s analysis and […]
Image above: Health Care for All – San Fernando Valley celebrating Medicare’s 50th birthday On Medicare’s 53rd birthday, it’s evident that many people see the federal program as the solution to our healthcare problems, while others despise and want to destroy it. American politicians seem […]
Successful campaigns will feature faces of the vulnerable with whom we can identify, bold and passionate action, and a movement-building strategy of nonviolent direct action campaigning. What the Parkland teens can teach Medicare for All campaigners By George Lakey / Waging Nonviolence / Op-Ed – July 11, 2018 Photo […]
Thanks to NurseTalk for this excellent podcast making a business and personal case for Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. Features Richard Master & Donna Smith
The recent appointment of celebrity doctor Atul Gawande to head the Amazon/Buffet/JP Morgan healthcare plan, on a part-time basis no less, is just another sign that the delusion about market-based solutions for health care continues unabated. Apparently Dr. Gawande feels the job is simple enough to […]
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra pledged Friday to redouble his efforts as the Affordable Care Act’s leading defender, saying attacks by the Trump Administration threaten health care for millions of Americans. Becerra’s pledge came in response to an announcement from the administration Thursday that it would […]
In case you missed it, the latest news makes clear that corporate health insurance continues to suck, with fine print exclusions, claims denials and sky-high premiums that show no sign of abating after years of double-digit increases. The result? Patient suffering. Meanwhile, state governments […]
Was Colorado’s House Speaker Crisanta Duran taking a page from California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon‘s book when she blocked introduction of the Health Care Cost Analysis Act of 2018?Read the letter about the status of the bill from Ivan J. Miller, Ph.D. and judge for […]
