Medicare for all would save billions in waste
By James Garb for Cape Cod Times Medicare celebrates its 53rd birthday this month. One of the two most popular government programs, along with Social
New Medicare for All Caucus in Congress
By Michael Corcoran for Truthout When Medicare was created 53 years ago this month, it was over the objections of Ronald Reagan. On behalf of
Government Healthcare Is Saving My Mum’s Life
By Libby Watson for Splinter My mother has lung cancer. At the end of last year, she began feeling breathless and tired, struggling with walks
Solidarity With Medical Students Who Demand Single Payer Now: An Open Letter
By Students for a National Health Program We, the undersigned, stand together with medical students as they pressure organized medicine to support a single, comprehensive
Investigation: Patients’ Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced By Drugmakers
By Liz Essley Whyte, Joe Yerardi & Alison Kodjak for NPR Eight months pregnant, the drug sales representative wore a wire for the FBI around
The Real Driver of Healthcare Spending
By Edward M. Murphy, Commonwealth Magazine. Cartoon: Khalil Bendib / Other Words An inefficiency gap is boosting costs — and profits. The health care debates that occurred
Creating a Healthcare System that ends Class Privilege
By Benjamin Y. Fong and Dustin Guastella, Huffington Post. Above photo: MONTY FRESCO VIA GETTY IMAGES British Health Minister Aneurin Bevan presents a certificate to Nurse Johnson,
Health Insurers are Data-Mining to raise Rates
By Marshall Allen, ProPublica. Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates Without any public scrutiny, insurers and
Trump Administration Moves Forward on VA Privatization
By Suzanne Gordon for The American Prospect Under the guise of reducing veteran suicides, the Trump administration has released a plan that could radically reshape veteran care
How Big Medicine Can Ruin Medicare for All
A single-payer system will degenerate into corporate welfare unless we take on health care monopolies. By Phillip Longman for Washington Monthly Many of us still
Injured Woman Begs Bystanders Not to Call Ambulance
By Julie Conley, Commondreams. Above photo: Bystanders helped a woman whose leg became trapped between a subway car and platform in Boston last Friday. (Massachusetts Bay
Hospitals are running out of medicines in the United States
By Katie Thomas, New York Times. Above photo: George Vander Linde checked for morphine from a dispenser at Norwegian American. CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times