We’ve Come A Long Way: President Obama says Medicare for all is a “good new idea”
By Margaret Flowers, MD, Health Over Profit for Everyone. Above photo from The Hill. On September 7, 2018, speaking at the University of Illinois Urbana
Add this horror story of teacher charged $109K after heart attack to long list of reasons US badly needs Medicare For All
“The lesson is, if you live in America and get charged an outrageous medical bill, you better hope you can find a journalist to write
Why Doctors Are Warming to Medicare for All
Burnout, cynicism, and endless insurance red tape. As America’s private health care system crumbles, doctors are waking up to the need for Medicare for All.
A slim majority of Republicans now want single-payer too
By Emma Ockerman for Vice News It’s not just Sen. Bernie Sanders fanatics and DSA darlings pulling for expanding Medicare and developing a single-payer system.
The Bull Market is Foretelling Medicare Advantage for All
By Don McCanne, Physicians for a National Health Program. Sign up for Don McCanne’s Quote-of-the-day here. NOTE: We advocate for National Improved Medicare for All,
Jake Tapper’s Faulty Medicare for All Fact-Check
By Matt Bruenig for People’s Policy Project CNN’s Jake Tapper released a video on Friday claiming to fact-check Bernie Sanders’s claims about the cost of
The medical lobby is already peddling lies about Medicare-for-all
By Ryan Cooper for The Week Medicare-for-all is getting some real momentum behind it, with several more supporters winning congressional primaries on Tuesday night. The
Once Its Greatest Foes, Some Doctors Are Now Embracing Single-Payer
By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News When the American Medical Association — one of the nation’s most powerful health care groups — met in
Faith community must embrace single-payer health system
NOTE: This article calls for faith communities to advocate for a national single payer healthcare system. If you are part of a faith community, perhaps
Hospitals Know How to Protect Mothers. They Just Aren’t Doing It.
By Alison Young, USA Today. Photo: Marco Mention’s wife, YoLanda, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter Serenity in 2015. Jack Gruber/USA Today. In countries
5 doctors and surgeons tell us what they really think about Medicare-for-all
By Dylan Scott, Vox. Photo: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some doctors support single-payer health care — even if that means a lower salary. The muscle
Why the Latest Attack on Single-Payer Backfired
By Michael Corcoran, Truthout. Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/Lightrocket via Getty Images. “If you find that you have to keep explaining what your proposal is, you