Healthcare has become the top issue for voters, but many say they are not hearing enough from candidates about how they would deal with it. Phil Galewitz, California Healthline Health care has emerged as the top issue for voters headed into the midterm elections, but […]
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Since the beginning of last year, 34 lawmakers have each received more than $100,000 from pharmaceutical companies. Two of those — Reps. Greg Walden of Oregon, a key Republican committee chairman, and Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican majority leader — each received more […]
President Trump will say or do anything in order to help Republicans, regardless of the truth and regardless of who it will hurt. His latest is a noxious Op-Ed in the USA Today that focuses on healthcare, Medicare for All and his policies: “As a […]
Connecting our current healthcare insurance dots in three charts: Insurers are making bigger profits; deductibles are burning a hole in workers’ pockets; and annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance averages nearly $20,000 a year. Insurers in the individual market performed better financially in the […]
A growing number of small-business owners say that controlling health care costs is a top priority, and it is the number one policy that they have contacted their elected officials about, a new study showed. According to the National Small Business Association’s annual Politics of […]
Groggy from painkillers, Khan managed to ask the doctors how much the flight would cost and whether it would be covered by his insurer. “I think they told my friend, ‘He needs to stop asking questions. He needs to get on that helicopter. He doesn’t […]
Introducing Stephen Vernon, our newest unsung hero of healthcare reform! This project of HEAL California highlights the hard work and dedication of individuals who are working – often in the background – to win Medicare-for-All in California and the nation. Stephen Vernon Stephen Vernon, a […]
A few months after House Democrats announced a Medicare for All Caucus, the co-chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), has introduced a Medicare for All PAC to support candidates who support the system championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during his 2016 run for president, as […]