Campaign funding from Health Insurance and Pharma blocks hopes for Single-Payer enthusiasts by Josh Finkelstein. January 31, 2018. OpenSecrets.org. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont hosted a town hall recently to discuss the Medicare for All Act, during which he emphasized […]
Amazon’s health care experiment shows exactly why we need Medicare for All We have to remove profit from the health care equation, just like Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase intend to do. Richard Master. Feb. 7, 2018. USA Today. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. […]
Corporations Won’t Fix American Health Care. They Already Run It. Neil J. Young. February 10, 2018. Huffington Post. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. The recent news from Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway that the three companies plan to team up to create a […]
California Reaches a Healthcare Precipice: The Post-Incrementalist Case for the Leap to Medicare-for-All in the Golden State in 2018 Ron Birnbaum. February 6, 2018. Medium. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. “Everybody in, nobody out” This cry from the now ubiquitous healthcare activists encapsulates both […]
Opinion: Single-payer provides best cure for California health care By MALINDA MARKOWITZ. February 6, 2018 at 6:30 am. UPDATED: February 6, 2018 at 9:24 am. East Bay Times. Excerpts only. Read complete article here. Imagine you are enduring excruciating abdominal pain so severe it forces you to rush to […]
‘Crisis No One Is Talking About’: GOP Threatens Healthcare of 26 Million People Sens. Sanders and Baldwin demand urgent action as thousands of community health centers face uncertain future without federal funds by Jessica Corbett, staff writer. Feb 2, 2018. Common Dreams. While the Republican-controlled Congress finally […]
Sheila Kuehl, as a state senator and now a Los Angeles County supervisor, has long fought for a universal healthcare system. She is more convinced than ever that single-payer is the way to go for California. — HEAL California is an independent news and information […]
Ernestine is now at the claims department. Her favorite response: “Not covered. We consider that an elective procedure, meaning we elect not to cover it.” How many times have you heard, Not Covered! — HEAL California is an independent news and information hub focused on […]
Private insurance companies are an absolute unnecessary middleman system that works only to constantly grow its profit margin as big as it can by redirecting premium dollars so they do not go to providing actual medical care. Every dollar it spends toward actual medical care […]