Action Alerts! SIGN PETITION NOW! Tell Governor Newsom to request the necessary waivers so federal funds can be used for a California single-payer plan! CALL YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER! Urge them to co-sponsor AB 1400, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. […]
Author: Mark Wrede
“The legislation will direct some $20 billion more to insurance companies by making larger premium subsidies available to consumers who buy qualified plans…The expansion of coverage is the path of least resistance…the result is you end up adding on to an incredibly expensive […]
“Gavin Newsom was just making a name for himself as mayor of San Francisco in 2005 when Blue Shield of California wrote him its first major check. … Over the next 16 years, as Newsom’s political career flourished, the health insurance behemoth became […]
Action Alerts! SIGN PETITION NOW! Tell Governor Newsom to request the necessary waivers so federal funds can be used for a California single-payer plan! CALL YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER! Urge them to co-sponsor AB 1400, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. […]
“The pandemic has given us possibly the best chance we’ve ever had of getting on the right track to shore up our public health resources.” Landmark COVID Relief Law Pumps More Than $100 Billion into Public Health Acknowledging that chronic […]
“The Trump administration’s attempted market-based interventions shined some light on dark corners of the health market and opened the door to some workarounds. They are not meaningful substitutes for larger and much-needed health reform. But as Americans await the type of more fundamental […]
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“The toll of death is simply staggering — worse than I would have predicted,” said Arthur Caplan, founding head of the division of medical ethics at the New York University School of Medicine. “Covid has been nothing short of the worst failure of […]