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.
“…who is the health care system for? The for-profit healthcare corporations, their shareholders and Wall Street traders and investors? For the corrupt and fraudulent scammers? Or for the patients, their families and taxpayers?”
John Geyman on Profiteering Corruption and Fraud in US Health Care
Corporate Crime Reporter | June 12, 2020
“Unless we use data and focus concretely on race, we are going to let COVID-19 bake in a whole new generation of disparities.”
Missing Data Veils Coronavirus Damage to Minority Communities
Politico | Laura Barrón-López, Adam Cancryn, Maya King and Darius Tahir | June 14, 2020
“Korea legally requires all people and healthcare providers to participate in its single-payer insurance system.”
Inside Korea’s Low-Cost, High-Tech COVID-19 Strategy
Asia Times | Andrew Salmon | June 15, 2020
“Eleven percent of African Americans say they were close with someone who has died from the coronavirus, compared with 5% of Americans overall and 4% of white Americans.”
Poll: Black Americans Most Likely to Know a COVID-19 Victim
Associated Press | Kat Stafford and Hannah Fingerhut | June 15, 2020
“…the same government that says we cannot afford $20–$35 trillion over a decade to finance a Medicare for All program just gave Corporate America between $20 trillion and $35 trillion since the financial crisis roughly a decade ago.”
We’ve Always Had the Money for Medicare for All — We’ve Just Given It to Corporations Instead
Jacobin | David Sirota | June 16, 2020
“…health-care providers go to work every day intending to do their best for all of their patients, but yet they’re producing a pattern of care that appears to be discriminatory. We need to fix that, and it can be fixed,..”
Black doctors push for anti-bias training in medicine to combat health inequality
CNBC | Bertha Coombs | June 19, 2020
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