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
Republicans to target welfare, Medicare, Medicaid spending in 2018
By Jeff Stein in the Washington Post. NOTE: This article was first published on December 6, 2017. It is a good example of the misinformation
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
Private Insurers Cherry Pick Medicare Patients
By Dr. Richard A. Damon in the Montana Standard. Medicare Advantage plans from the beginning have been advertised as better high-end coverage for elders at
People Are Dying Younger in the US Than in Other Wealthy Nations
By Christopher Ingraham for The Washington Post. And public policy is largely to blame. American lives are shorter on average than those in other wealthy
The Feminist Case For Single Payer
By Natalie Shure for Jacobin Magazine. It’s time to take health care away from the power of bosses and spouses. In the spring of 1969,
Luxury Socialized Medicine
By Meagan Day for Jacobin Magazine. Above Photo: The Doctor’s Visit by Jan Steen, circa 1660. Mauritshuis. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis / Wikimedia Forget rationing and waiting
How Big Medicine can ruin Medicare for All
By Phillip Longman for The Guardian. Photo from Make It Our UPMC. NOTE: One of our criticisms of the Sanders’ Medicare for All Act is
Trump’s HHS Secretary Pick comes from Big Pharma
By Alex Kotch and Lydia O’Neal for International Business Times. Presidential candidate Donald Trump was an outspoken critic of pharmaceutical companies and high drug prices. He
What Corporate Media Failed to Learn About Canadian Single-Payer
By Michael Corcoran for FAIR. Media responded to Bernie Sanders’ hospital tour of Canada with predictable dismissiveness. When it was announced that several journalists would
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
Feds and States Going After Insulin Makers for High Prices
By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News. Photo: Hunter Sego is flanked by his parents, Bryon and Kathy Sego, at a DePauw University football game