Campaign Updates ← Health Over Profit

Health Over Profit National Calls

Feb

6

2017

Health Over Profit for Everyone is a national campaign to win a National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) healthcare system (also called a single payer health system). It is a project initiated by advocates for NIMA acting as individuals and is coordinated by Popular Resistance. We will hold regular national conference calls starting Monday, February ...

Healthcare Advocates Block Chicago Streets Demanding Care

Sep

13

2018

By Anne Scheetz for Popular Resistance Responding to Iashea Cross’s cry, “Are you ready to take action?,” on August 31 members of Chicago ADAPT and the Alliance for Community Services, and personal assistants from SEIU Healthcare Illinois, kicked off Labor Day weekend by blocking two streets at the State of Illinois Building in downtown Chicago. ...

Ten ways Medicare Advantage plans differ from traditional Medicare

Sep

8

2018

By Diane Archer, JustCareUSA. Listen to Diane Archer speak about Medicare Advantage Plans here: And visit her healthcare blog at JustCareUSA. There is a lot of confusion surrounding Medicare Advantage plans, commercial health insurance for people with Medicare, and the ways Medicare Advantage plans differ from traditional Medicare. You are likely to hear about ...

We’ve Come A Long Way: President Obama says Medicare for all is a “good new idea”

Sep

8

2018

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 Champaign, President Obama said that Democrats are running on “good new ideas like Medicare for All…” This indicates a significant shift in support of National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA). ...

Add this horror story of teacher charged $109K after heart attack to long list of reasons US badly needs Medicare For All

Aug

30

2018

“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 about it.” By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Adding yet another horrifying anecdote to the ever-growing list of reasons the United States urgently needs to transition away from its disastrous ...

Why Doctors Are Warming to Medicare for All

Aug

25

2018

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. By Meagan Day for Jacobin According to a poll earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine, a majority of American physicians say that single-payer is the best ...

A slim majority of Republicans now want single-payer too

Aug

25

2018

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. Apparently, some Republicans want it too. That’s according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, which found 51.9 percent of Republicans would embrace a Medicare-for-All policy, out of the 2,989 people who ...

The Bull Market is Foretelling Medicare Advantage for All

Aug

24

2018

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, a single universal publicly-funded national health program, and NOT Medicare Advantage for All, a system of multiple private insurances funded by the government. Getting the private health insurers out of ...

Jake Tapper’s Faulty Medicare for All Fact-Check

Aug

21

2018

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 Medicare for All. Tapper’s fact-check follows in the tradition of the fact-checks that came before his in that it is riddled with errors that the libertarian Mercatus Center fed him. ...

The medical lobby is already peddling lies about Medicare-for-all

Aug

19

2018

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 medical industry — drug companies, insurance companies, medical providers, and others — has thus been gearing up to preserve the fat profits they enjoy under the horrendous status quo. They’ve ...

Once Its Greatest Foes, Some Doctors Are Now Embracing Single-Payer

Aug

19

2018

By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News When the American Medical Association — one of the nation’s most powerful health care groups — met in Chicago this June, its medical student caucus seized an opportunity for change. Though they had tried for years to advance a resolution calling on the organization to drop its decades-long ...