The Sickness of American Healthcare

By Yves Smith for Naked Capitalism. Above photo: UPS aircraft maintenance workers and family members from Atlanta, Memphis, Dallas and Louisville protest outside a UPS store in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta to keep their current level of health care benefits. COURTESY OF TEAMSTERS 2727   Yves here. If nothing else, be sure to look at the chart, […]

The Push for a Medicare for All Plan

By Dennis Bernstein for Consortium News. Above photo: Russell Mokhiber outside the US Supreme Court. Sen. Bernie Sanders has unveiled a new single-payer healthcare plan which would provide all Americans with government-sponsored health coverage. Sanders’s plan, supported by some 16 Democrats in the Senate, calls for an overhaul of the healthcare system with what would […]