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The week in healthcare reform
“…a consistent framework applied nationally would minimize wasted effort, maximize learning and accelerate vaccine administration.”
Health System Execs: National Approach Needed to Stem Vaccine Disarray
Healthcare Dive | Samantha Liss | February 11, 2021
“…many of President Trump’s policies … merely accelerated the decades-long trend of lagging life expectancy that reflects deep and long-standing flaws in US economic, health, and social policy….”
Trump’s COVID Response Was Deadly — But Decades of Dreadful, Racist Policy Set Up the Catastrophe
Salon | Igor Derysh | February 13, 2021
“…it’s going to take more than ‘call and email your legislator’…. ”
The Path to Winning a Floor Vote for Medicare for All in Congress
The Intercept | Stephanie Nakajima | February 13, 2021
“A public option is seen as more feasible politically….”
Senate Democrats Unveil Health Care Proposal with Public Option
The Hill | Jessie Hellmann | February 17, 2021
“…the bottom line of the CBO analysis — that universal coverage can be affordably achieved even as benefits are expanded and cost sharing all but eliminated — should reinvigorate debate….”
Universal Healthcare for Less! CBO Scores Medicare for All
Common Dreams | Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler | February 17, 2021
“Black and Hispanic communities throughout the United States have borne the brunt of this pandemic.”
US Life Expectancy Drops a Year in Pandemic, Most Since WWII
Associated Press | Marilynn Marchione | February 18, 2021
“Once again, the private industries are being bailed out and the people are being sold out.”
Biden’s Health Plan Shifts Even More Public Dollars Into Private Hands
Truthout | Margaret Flowers | February 18, 2021
“The study notes that the hospital community has aggressively lobbied against rate setting….”
Capping Hospital Prices Could Save $235B Annually, Rand Study Says
Healthcare Dive | Ron Shinkman | February 18, 2021
“…the California Nurses Association (CNA) is pleased to sponsor Assembly Bill 1400 (Kalra), the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare)…”
Nurses applaud introduction of CalCare bill to implement a single-payer system in California
Press Release | California Nurses Association | February 19, 2021
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