Mr. Trump, If You Love Medicare, Improve It and Expand It to All
By Dr. Carol Paris, Health Over Profit for Everyone. Above photo: Dr. Carol Paris being escorted out of a Trump Rally in Tennessee. Well, now I’ve heard everything: Donald Trump wants to keep “the government” away from Medicare and protect seniors from attempts to improve it. Huh? Mr. President, take it from me—a newly-minted senior […]
Medicare-for-All Foes Pack Serious Lobbying Power; Congress Must Choose Between People and Industry
By Craig Sandler, Public Citizen. Three-Fourths of Health Care Lobbyists in 2017 Worked on Behalf of Big Pharma, Insurance and Hospital Industries, a New Study Finds WASHINGTON, D.C. – While a majority of the public, and an increasing number of politicians, support a Medicare-for-All health care system, any serious proposal will face major hurdles due […]
Dr. Margaret Flowers in Kentucky: Educating on health policy, inspiring activism to win single payer
By Kay Tillow for KY Healthcare On October 4 and 5, 2018, nationally-known single payer activist, Margaret Flowers, MD, spoke at a whirlwind of events in Kentucky, educating physicians and medical students and inspiring activists. Dr. Flowers, a Baltimore pediatrician, now works full time advocating for a National Improved Medicare for All system as set […]
A US-inspired reorganisation is about to hit England’s NHS – ‘help us stop it’
NHS plans due to take effect next spring could make general healthcare as difficult to access as mental healthcare already is – and lock future governments into long contracts with private firms, warn campaigners. By Jenny Shepherd for Open Democracy Members of the public, NHS campaign groups and trade unions are acting to stop NHS […]