Debate: Transitioning to a Single Payer Healthcare System
Sonali Kolhatkar with Michael Lighty and Joshua Holland on Rising Up with Sonali. NOTE: With the wave of articles by ‘progressives’ coming out against National Improved Medicare for All, I hope this will be the first of many debates. This debate was lacking in 2009 when single payer was taboo. It is interesting to note […]
It’s Happening Again: Divide and Conquer to Weaken Movement for Improved Medicare for All
By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. The tactic of dividing movements to weaken them has been used throughout history. It was used skillfully to divide proponents of single payer health care during the health reform process in 2009-10 that resulted in the Affordable Care Act. And it is being used very obviously again. In […]
America’s Health Care System Kills People
But it doesn’t have to be this way. By Gabby Bess for Vice. In Australia, vital services like cancer treatments are free; in the US, countless people struggle to even get screened. We spoke to cancer patients in both countries about the drastic difference single-payer health insurance can make. Linda Kimber is a 65-year-old retiree […]