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
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
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
The Sickness of American Healthcare
By Yves Smith for Naked Capitalism. Above photo: UPS aircraft maintenance workers and family members from Atlanta, Memphis, Dallas and Louisville protest outside a UPS store in
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
Single Payer Is on the National Agenda
By Ben Palmquist for In These Times. Above photo: Put People First! Pennsylvania rallies on November 3, 2016 in Philadelphia, Penn. (Courtesy of Put People First!
Revolutionary Medicine: The Change We Need
By Mike Pappas for TruthDig. Above photo: TPP protest in front of the White House. Medical students protest the impact of trade agreements on access
She Eats Out of Dumpsters to Afford Long-term Care for her Husband
By Maria L . La Ganga in the Miami Herald. Photo by Kyle Green. NOTE: Since we reported that Senator Sanders’ health bill will not
Stephen Hawkings Speaks Out on How Privatization and Cuts Hurt the NHS
By Denis Campbell for The Guardian. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA Stephen Hawking blames Tory politicians for damaging NHS Physicist criticises ministers over funding cuts, privatisation and pay
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
Everybody Wins With Single Payer
By Berry Craig for the Kentucky AFL-CIO. EDITOR’S NOTE: More than 600 labor organizations, including the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, have endorsed HR 676. AFT Local 1360 Kay
Senate Debates Billions for Insurers while Public Demands Medicare for All
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Health Over Profit for Everyone. Billions More for Crony Capitalist Insurance or Improved Medicare for All This week