Empowered by voters outraged over Republican attempts to chip away at the law’s protections for the sick, Democrats owe much of their midterm takeback to health care issues. Emmarie Huetteman, KHN For the first time since passing the Affordable Care Act, Democrats will soon control […]
Fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged these claims. Health insurance analyst Linda Blumberg of the Urban Institute told PolitiFact that suggesting Medicare-for-all would disrupt current enrollees’ coverage is a “horrible mischaracterization of the proposal.” Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column noted that a leading […]
That gives politicians and voters a few years to decide what they mean and what they want when they say they support Medicare-for-all or single-payer health care. For now, it’s hard to read too much into promises. Elisabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News […]
In our top stories this week, we have a generic drug pricing scam, Germany beating the U.S. (and not in soccer) and a growing number of primary elections focused on candidates supporting Medicare for All. In a related article, doctor burnout because of uninsured patients […]
The California Nurses Association union and Blue Shield of California each have contributed about $1 million to independent committees that support Newsom. The powerful nurses union strongly supports single-payer health care, while that model of health care delivery could pose an existential threat to insurer […]
