Calls For Single Payer Grow Louder at Anti-Trumpcare Protests
By Casey Quinlan for Think Progress. Protesters at Capitol Hill on Wednesday. CREDIT: ThinkProgress/Jack Jenkins As Democratic leaders spoke at the Capitol on Wednesday, protesters repeatedly shouted “single payer!” “Single payer!” proved to be a rallying cry for demonstrators at an anti-Trumpcare protest on Capitol Hill this Wednesday, suggesting that a growing number of progressive activists want […]
Lack of Health Insurance Increases the Risk of Dying
On June 26, 2017, the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act and found that if it is implemented as written, there would be an additional 22 million people without health insurance in the United States in 2026. This would be in addition to the almost 30 million people […]
Sanders Has His Priorities Backwards; We Can’t Delay Medicare for All
By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. Above image from ATTN.com. We thought that Senator Sanders was on track to introduce and advocate for a national improved Medicare for All bill, but Tuesday he stated publicly at a Planned Parenthood rally that his priorities are to first defeat the Republican health plan, then to improve the […]