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Practicing Medicine Without a License – Health Insurer Malpractice

Are Payers the Leading Cause of Death in the United States? Milton Packer wonders if people suffer and die because it is cost effective by Milton Packer MD. (November 01, 2017).  MedPage Today [Excerpts only. Read complete article here.) On September 17, 2017 The New York Times and ProPublica collaborated on […]

Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Underinsurance is Exploding

How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2016 (Excerpts only. Find complete report here . . . ) Toplines The share of U.S. adults who were underinsured in 2016 was up significantly from 2014 […]

Fearless, iron-core accountability journalism: Tarbell.org

Why We Need ‘Pull-No-Punches Reporting’ That Holds Big Corporations And Moneyed Interests Accountable Wendell Potter, Founder of Tarbell.org (10/25/2017) Huffington Post Nataline Sarkisyan might be alive today had I not been such a team player when she was so sick. Had I not been so focused […]

Centrism on Healthcare Reform? A Political Dead End

Why “Centrists” Will Sink the Democrats, If They Haven’t Already The majority of registered Democratic voters view Sanders favorably and support single-payer healthcare. by Richard Eskow (Oct 24, 2017), OurFuture.org (Excerpts – Read complete article here.) No political ideology in modern American history has failed as consistently, […]

Oh, Oh, Ohio! Buckeye State Considers Single Payer

Ohio Democrats Propose Single-Payer Health Care By Jim Provance | BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF Published on Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 4:11 p. m Oct. 24–COLUMBUS — Even as the Republican-controlled General Assembly has moved to restrict Ohio’s expansion of Medicaid, a pair of Democratic lawmakers Tuesday proposed […]

Live Free (from Corporate Health Insurance) or Die!

N.H. rep proposes statewide single-payer health care By ETHAN DeWITT (October 23, 2017), Concord Monitor (Excerpts below. Complete article here.) A proposal to create a single-payer health care system in New Hampshire drew mixed reactions in the House on Monday, with some denouncing it as […]

Gavin Newsom Wins Union Endt, Strongly Supports Single Payer

Democrats running for California governor debate over bringing single-payer healthcare to the state By Willon, Phil. (2017, October 22) Los Angeles Times (Excerpts. Read complete article here.) The top four Democrats running for California governor stood onstage for the first major candidate forum [sponsored by National Union […]