Weekly News Roundup: Dec 20, 2019

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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