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 […]
President Trump will say or do anything in order to help Republicans, regardless of the truth and regardless of who it will hurt. His latest is a noxious Op-Ed in the USA Today that focuses on healthcare, Medicare for All and his policies: “As a […]
Seniors are getting financially drained by excessive prescription drug price increases, and a congressional report released this week shows that the situation is unlikely to change anytime soon without fundamental change. The report, “Manufactured Crisis: How devastating drug price increases are harming America’s seniors,” exposed […]
Why on Earth do we need more IRS forms? Great question! It’s because most Americans have a mandate to obtain health insurance imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Failure to comply means you might get penalized, so it’s important to have a way to […]
Lately the media’s full of talking heads who are busy “curbing our expectations” about what’s possible when it comes to healthcare reform. A lot of folks seem to think we’ve done it all! They say we just have to live with the fact that there […]
Addressing inequality in healthcare is a cornerstone of Bernie Sanders’ 2015 presidential campaign. He has supported a national Medicare-for-All, single-payer type healthcare system for decades. In a 7/28/15 interview with Ezra Klein (Vox.com), he flatly states “Health care, to my mind, is a right of […]
Do you think that getting healthcare is similar to buying a commodity like, say, a couch? You shop around, comparing options and costs. Cloth? Leather? Sectional? Chesterfield? And then you buy one? Does this really happen with healthcare? In my experience, no. There are lots […]
