Campaign funding from Health Insurance and Pharma
By Josh Finkelstein for Open Secrets. NOTE: Open Secrets is an excellent resource for finding out what industries and who is backing your members of Congress. This information may be helpful as you plan your campaign to pressure your legislator to support National Improved Medicare for All. – MF Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont hosted […]
How Big Pharma infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
By Martha Rosenberg for Intrepid Report. Do you overeat? Did your boyfriend just break up with you? Does no one return your emails? Do you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning? If so, you may be suffering from mental illness! Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do […]
Millennials vs. The Mandate
By Brittany Shannahan for the Health Care is a Human Right Campaign, Maryland. Shifting the blame away from greedy companies and our for-profit healthcare system onto young people living in economic insecurity isn’t going to win equitable healthcare for everyone. This week, it is likely that more details will emerge about proposed state legislation […]
How to Build a Single-Payer Health System
By Michael Corcoran for Truth Out. Photo: Leren Lu Lessons From Taiwan’s Turnaround This piece is part of Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All, a Truthout original series. “Taiwan’s highly efficient system of national health insurance should humble and inspire the United States.” —Uwe Reinhardt (1937 – 2017) There are obvious reasons why some […]
Fragmented Health System Paves Way for CVS-Aetna Merger
By Aaron Mate for The Real News. William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC). He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. Black was a central figure in exposing […]
Single Payer Myths: Removing People From Employer Plans
By Matt Bruenig for People’s Policy Project. Photo: Molly Adams / Flickr Critics argue that single payer has a unique problem in that it would remove people from employer-provided health plans. Krugman: A far more important consideration is minimizing disruption to the 156 million people who currently get insurance through their employers, and are largely satisfied […]
Down With the Copay
By Natalie Shure for Jacobin Magazine. We can’t eliminate the profit motive in health care without eliminating copays. In the week preceding the release of Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill, the Vermont senator’s office was flooded with calls — so many, in fact, that the legislative aides on the other line often guessed callers’ […]
Health Benefits From Small Businesses Keep Vanishing
By Tom Murphy of Associated Press in USA Today. NOTE: This is what we predicted that businesses would do after the ACA was passed as health insurance costs continued to rise – drop coverage and give their employees money to try to buy insurance on their own. I wrote about this four and a half […]
Senator who Arrested Single Payer Supporters, Now Supports It
By Daniel Marans for Huffington Post. Above photo: The Baucus 8 (minus Katie Robbins) with their lawyers after a court hearing for their arrests ordered by Senator Max Baucus. Key Obamacare Architect Who Shunned Single-Payer Now Backs It. Max Baucus’ comments show how far the debate has shifted. Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), a fiscal […]
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 […]