Number of Americans without health insurance grows in Trump’s first year, new figures show Noam N. Levey, January 16, 2018 Excerpts only. Read complete article here. The number of Americans without health coverage, which declined for years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, shot […]
Single-Payer Healthcare Divides Gubernatorial Candidates at Town Hall By Guy Marzorati JANUARY 13, 2018. KQED News. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. For more than an hour, Saturday’s town hall meeting of gubernatorial candidates at the University of Southern California proceeded at a tame, predictable pace. […]
Trump’s pick for health secretary makes clear he’s totally the wrong guy for the job By David Lazarus. January 12, 2018. Los Angeles Times. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. Watching Alex Azar, President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, testify before the Senate Finance […]
Nurses Catch Assembly Speaker in Lie About Healthy California Bill California Nurses Association. January 04, 2018 RNs to Rendon: “No Excuses. We’ve Done Our Job; You Do Yours.” The nearly 100,000 registered nurses of the California Nurses Association (CNA)—co-sponsors of SB 562, the Healthy California […]
Market-Based Health Care Is Screwing Rural America Single payer would be a huge boon for small-town residents. By: Megan Stanley. Jacobin Magazine. Jan 9, 2018. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. The goal of universal coverage has long eluded the Affordable Care Act — especially in rural areas. […]
Listen: How A ‘Hippie Clinic’ In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy Carrie Feibel, KQED Fifty-one years ago in San Francisco, a small community clinic opened its doors. Its mission: to treat many of the young people who flocked to the city — who were often […]
SB 562 Updates from CNA’s Legislative Advocate Stephanie Roberson January 9, 2018. NurseTalk Media. Who’s gonna move California ahead to the best healthcare solution – single payer? The Legislature? Gavin Newsom? Get the latest from Stephanie Roberson, Legislative Advocate for CNA/NNU!
Thanks to Damien Petty for headline image, above. A New Year’s Day Parade for ‘Medicare for All’ Signals Energized Battle Ahead in California “People are hip to faux solutions and incrementalism and are not buying it. They want Medicare for All—and they want it now.” […]
