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Single Payer Takes Center Stage in California’s 2018 Elections

Single-Payer Health Care in California? Why Advocates Are Playing the Long Game By Laurel Rosenhall. FEBRUARY 16, 2018. KQED News.  Excerpts only. Read complete article here.   By many measures the rambunctious campaign for a single-payer health care system in California appears to be floundering. . . […]

Forecast Shows Deepening Shortage Of Mental Health Professionals In California

Brian Rinker. February 13, 2018. Republished courtesy of California HealthLine. Original article here.  A new report forecasts a substantial shortage of qualified and diverse behavioral health professionals in California within 10 years, leaving minority patients and those outside major metropolitan areas especially underserved. If nothing is […]

Death by Paperwork? Another Reason Your Health Insurance Sucks

The most underrated argument for single-payer health care By Ryan Cooper. February 15, 2018. The Week.   Excerpts only. Read complete article here.   If there’s one constant in modern American life, it’s paperwork and bills — and it’s rarely worse than it is for health […]

Will California Choose To Follow or Lead on Health Care?

California confronts the complexities of creating a single-payer healthcare system By MICHAEL HILTZIK. FEB 09, 2018. Los Angeles Times.  Excerpts only. Read complete article here.  California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon may have expected to torpedo the idea of a statewide single-payer healthcare system for the long term […]

Congressional Greed for Payola Blocks Healthcare Reform

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 […]

Businessman Blasts Amazon: Healthcare for the 1% Is No Solution

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 Are Ruining Our Health Care

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 […]