Which Path to National Improved Medicare for All?
By Margaret Flowers, MD for Health Over Profit for Everyone. State-level reforms for universal health care are laudable; they are not single payer. Two states with a long history of state-based healthcare reform efforts, California and New York, are hard at work organizing for state bills labeled as single payer healthcare plans. Other states are […]
HR 676 versus S 1804 Hand Out
National Improved Medicare for All: Keeping the Promise of Equal Care for Everyone There is widespread support for National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) to solve the current healthcare crisis. Two bills exist in Congress – HR 676, first introduced in 2003, and S 1804, first introduced in 2017. The House bill, HR 676, is […]
Weaknesses of S1804, The Senate Medicare for All Act
By Lee Stanfield. S-1804 is not a true “universal single-payer system” even after its prolonged 4-year rollout. For the first 4 years it will essentially be a “public option” in a sea of for-profit insurance companies. The public option will serve as a “high risk pool” funded by tax money, because the for-profits will “cherry-pick” […]
Jacob Hacker Rises Again to Stop Single Payer
By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit for Everyone. Photo by Erik McGregor. In the article linked below, The Road to Medicare for Everyone, Jacob Hacker is once again working to dissuade single payer healthcare supporters from demanding National Improved Medicare for All and is using our language to send us down a false path. Once […]
Division Among Democrats Over Medicare for All
By John Geyman for Truthout. The Democratic Party, as is the case with the Republican Party, has its own civil war going on as it looks to the upcoming election cycles in 2018 and 2020. Its division over how to proceed on health care shows how wide the divide is among Democrats. Democratic centrists, so […]
Health Care is a Commodity in the US; How We change that
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. With just a week left before Congress’ budget reconciliation process ends, the Senate is once again peddling a poorly-thought out plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If Senators vote before the September 30 deadline, they only need 50 votes instead of the filibuster-proof 60 votes to pass […]
Trojan-Horse Democrats Pile Into House of Single Payer
By Jim Kavanaugh for The Polemicist. Duplicitous Democrats are trying to sabotage single-payer, again. It’s great that more than a third of Democratic senators have signed on to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All bill. It’s a potentially strong bill that’s been welcomed by single-payer activist organizations like Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and National […]
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 […]
Chart for Senate Medicare for All Act Transition Period
KEY: MFA = Medicare for All** IHS = Indian Health Service Medicaid = availability depends on income, status* and state CHIP = Children’s Health Insurance Plan* Tricare = insurance for military families VA = Veteran’s Administration Enhanced Medicare = available to those 65 years of age and over and those with disabilities who qualify. Cap […]
Medicare for all is the only health care proposal that meets Trump’s standards
By Dr. Carol Paris for USA Today. The Senate’s chaotic attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act prove that Republicans who campaigned for years against the ACA never had a plan to replace it. In the meantime, Americans’ support for a comprehensive national health plangrows even stronger. As a physician and longtime advocate for Medicare for all, I’m […]