Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden may be looking to build bridges with former rival Bernie Sanders’ supporters by rolling out a plan to lower the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 60. This move would be a real lifesaver for people […]
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The week in healthcare reform Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California. For many Americans, “inequality will be the […]
Actually 2020 is turning out to be a “big health care year for California,” but not in the way Governor Newsom imagined it would. His plans included bringing the state closer to universal healthcare by expanding Medi-Cal and reducing the cost of […]
What can we expect in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic? If we simply go back to to the way things were, with the corporate healthcare industry calling the shots, signs are that we’re going to find a healthcare system that is more […]
The week in healthcare reform Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California. Newly unemployed, newly uninsured. . . . […]
Once again we see the complete inadequacy of “band-aid” solutions to our broken healthcare non-system. While our legislators tout “relief bills” they passed, patients who seek testing for COVID-19 often end up facing a crushing amount of medical debt, like this young […]
Congress has apparently normalized the practice of loading up bills with riders, which are provisions that have little or no connection to the stated purpose of the bill. Often these provisions have far-reaching consequences, about which the American people aren’t informed. And […]
The week in healthcare reform Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California. Many of us will lose our health […]