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. […]
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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.” […]
Thanks to Damien Petty for headline image above! The parade after the Rose Parade: About 200 march for universal health care By STEVE SCAUZILLO | sscauzillo@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune PUBLISHED: January 1, 2018 at 2:53 pm | UPDATED: January 1, 2018 at 2:55 pm From the Pasadena Star-News. Excerpts only. Read […]
Physicians who refuse to accept Medicaid patients breach their contract with society By SUMIT AGARWAL, DECEMBER 28, 2017. STAT. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. The notice on the clinic’s website, “We do not accept Medicaid,” might as well say, “Poor people aren’t welcome here.” It’s an […]
Get ready for a revived brawl over single-payer healthcare in California By Melanie Mason, December 28, 2017. Los Angeles Times. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. Whether it was bracing for a possible repeal of Obamacare or pondering an ambitious single-payer program that would overhaul how […]
By Shefali Luthra DECEMBER 18, 2017 TORONTO — For Dr. Peter Cram, an American internist who spent most of his career practicing in Iowa City, Iowa, moving here about four years ago was almost a no-brainer. He’s part of a small cohort of American doctors […]
Republican tax bill fuels anxiety across the nation’s healthcare system Noam N. Levey, December 18, 2017. Los Angeles Times. Excerpts. Read complete article here. Doctors, hospitals, patient advocates and others who work in the nation’s healthcare system are growing increasingly alarmed at the Republican tax […]