Tag: Medicare

California — The Path to Bernie Sanders’ Dream of Medicare for All!

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 […]

Healthcare is not a Couch

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 […]