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.
Poll: 67% agree the priority should be saving lives, even if the economy slows.
Coronavirus Health Fears Outweigh Concern for Economy: Global Survey
Reuters | Mark John | May 4, 2020
Among working-class Americans, ideas like Medicare for All are becoming common sense.
The Majority of Americans Aren’t Scared Off by Policies Like Medicare for All
Jacobin | Edward Carver | May 4, 2020
“Every expert I spoke [with] emphasized the value of Canada’s single-payer health care system….”
Canada Succeeded on Coronavirus Where America Failed. Why?
Vox | Zack Beauchamp | May 4, 2020
Are we really ready? New confirmed infections per day exceed 20,000. Deaths? Over 1,000 per day.
US Infection Rate Rising Outside New York as States Open Up
Associated Press | Nicky Forster, Carla K. Johnson and Mike Stobbe | May 5, 2020
“The vulnerabilities that COVID-19 has revealed were a predictable outgrowth of our market-based health care system.”
We Knew the Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed
The New York Times | Elisabeth Rosenthal | May 6, 2020
…what happens when the virus seeps into communities that are rural, mostly African American and poor.
‘It’s Gone Haywire’: When COVID-19 Arrived in Rural America
Associated Press | Claire Galofaro, Katrease Stafford and Meghan Hoye | May 6, 2020
“The moral implications of a system set up to feed off people at their most vulnerable are coming into high relief now…”
Does Medicare for All Await Us at the End of This Viral Massacre?
KCRW | Robert Scheer with Margaret Flowers, MD | May 8, 2020
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