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.
Medicare and Medicaid successfully control healthcare costs
Private Insurance’s Costs are Skyrocketing
Axios | Drew Altman | December 16, 2019
Corporate lobbyists continue to distort the facts, manufacture doubt about Medicare for All
Medicare for All or Profits for a Few
Common Dreams | Michael Schwalbe | December 14, 2019
ACA under threat as Medicare-for-All debate continues
In 2020, The Healthcare Debate Will Be Inescapable
Los Angeles Times | Michael Hiltzik | December 13, 2019
Despite industry rhetoric, the health insurance marketplace is no arena of individual freedoms
Anti-‘Medicare for All’ Pulls from Old Playbook
The Conversation | Burton St John III | December 10, 2019
“In 2017 alone, PhRMA took in $456 million in revenue and spent almost $200 million on lobbying and advertising.” Lobbying efforts have increased 700%.
How the Healthcare Industry is Working to Flatline Medicare for All
Fast Company | Mark Kreidler | December 10, 2019
Do you know the difference between Medicare for All and single-payer?
Clarifying the Vocabulary That’s Surrounding the Medicare for All Debate
National Public Radio | Selena Simmons-Duffin | December 11, 2019
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