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.
It could not be plainer: now is the time for Medicare for All.
The World’s Most Unfair Health Care System
CounterPunch | Eve Ottenberg | April 24, 2020
“… I do think there’s room for Biden to move much more than he has so far.” —Jayapal
Common Dreams | Joe Queally | April 25, 2020
Legislators on both sides of the aisle are responsible for “massive public health disaster.”
The US Political System Is to Blame for This Pandemic
Jacobin | Branko Marcetic | April 26, 2020
Bullish health insurers talk “stock buybacks,” while their lobbyists cry for government aid.
Health Insurers to Investors: We’re Good.
Health Insurers to Lawmakers: Please Help.
ProPublica | Isaac Arnsdorf | April 28, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has stripped bare the racial divide in the health of our nation. A complex and longstanding constellation of factors explains these higher death rates.
‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of COVID-19 in America
The New York Times | Linda Villarosa | April 29, 2020
“People do not avoid health care because of cost in Europe.”
CNN | Ivana Kottasová, Tami Luhby and Valentina Di Donato | May 1, 2020
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