The week in healthcare reform
Our Weekly News Roundup brings you snippets of news and brief commentary on topics related to America’s failing healthcare system, with a special focus on Medicare for All and California.
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“…in the case of the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed profound inequities that have been hiding in plain sight for decades.”
How Lessons from Global Health Can Improve Health and the Response to COVID-19 in the US
Health Affairs | Charles B. Holmes and Eric P. Goosby | August 10, 2020
“…the Energy and Commerce Committee has called upon [health insurance] companies to do more to provide immediate relief and has said it would launch an investigation into their business practices.”
Insurers Are Under Fire for Making Large Profits
Healthcare Finance | Susan Morse | August 10, 2020
“Health care providers can no longer stand in silence while our health system puts profits ahead of patients and public health…”
Another Physicians Group Endorses Medicare for All
Common Dreams | Oliver Fein, Steffie Woolhandler, and Clare Fauke | August 12, 2020
“…the fact that Medicare for All — especially in the time of COVID — is missing … [is] a statement about our values as a party….”
Medicare for All a Sore Point for Some Democratic Convention Delegates
MedPage Today | Joyce Frieden | August 13, 2020
“The pandemic is laying bare the lethal inequality of American society and American health care.”
Coronavirus Has Made a Fool Out of Every Single Critic of Medicare for All
Jacobin | Walker Bragman | August 13, 2020
“The ads come from a group called the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, whose members include many of the major players in the health industry, including drug companies, insurers and hospitals.”
Health Care Industry Launches New Ads Against Public Option for Convention
The Hill | Peter Sullivan | August 14, 2020
“…the eye-watering profits firms reported for the second quarter will certainly add more fuel to calls for a single-payer healthcare program such as Medicare for All.
US health insurers doubled profits in second quarter amid pandemic
The Guardian | Amanda Holpuch | August 14, 2020
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