By Helaine Olen for The Nation. Above photo:  CEO Warren Buffett talks to reporters before Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, May 6, 2017. (Reuters / Rick Wilking) Warren Buffett is rare among CEOs in publicly recognizing the economic benefits of Medicare for All. Talk of single-payer health care in the United States popped up in an ...

By Daniel Marans for the Huffington Post. Above photo: Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has been introducing a single-payer bill since 2003. It now has 111 co-sponsors — a significant majority of the House Democratic Caucus. By Sarah Rice/Getty Images House Democrats on Wednesday touted unprecedented majority support for a bill that would expand Medicare to the ...

By Dr. Jessica Schorr-Saxe of Health Care Justice of North Carolina for Rep. Alma Adams. Image from the Charlotte Observer. Now is the time for Medicare for all Single-payer program saves money May 19, 2017 In The News Have you—or anyone you know—skipped needed health care because of cost? Since this is true of one ...

By Brittany Shannahan of the Maryland Health Care is a Human Right campaign. “I’m scared I’m not going to make it to my 31st birthday” An Interview with Sarah Lau of Manchester, MD. Sarah Lau isn’t your typical 30-year-old-mom.  Diagnosed with a range of health issues in her teens, including generalized anxiety disorder, IBD, endometriosis ...

By Peter Weber for The Week. NOTE: President Nixon signed a bill into law that says the US government will cover dialysis for anyone who needs it. As John Oliver explains, “It is like our kidneys are Canadian.”  But sadly, because of the proliferation of for-profit dialysis centers, the quality of care and outcomes for ...

By Margaret Flowers, M.D. Photo from WMUR. Beware. In Washington, DC, words can lose their meaning. Representative Carol Shea-Porter, from the First District in New Hampshire, introduced legislation last month that she claims is “universal health care” when in reality it would delay and prevent actual universal health care. Her bill is called the “Medicare ...

By Nadia Prupis for CommonDreams. “Single Payer! Single Payer!” Rep. Tom MacArthur, who helped craft amendment that secured enough votes for bill to pass House, grilled for five hours over GOP healthcare. Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), one of the chief architects of the GOP’s healthcare plan, faced five hours of questions and booing from hundreds ...

By Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times. Above photo by AP/Susan Walsh. Republicans in the House say they have the votes to pass the American Health Care Act, a measure that will repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The vote is scheduled for Thursday. We analyzed the AHCA in March, when the original version was ...

By Michael Douglass for The Motley Fool. Warren Buffett claims the biggest issue facing American businesses as they compete abroad is healthcare, not taxes. When Warren Buffett was asked Saturday about the American Health Care Act (or AHCA), taxes seemed the likely topic of discussion. After all, President Trump has signaled that the AHCA is ...

By Sarah Jaffe for Truthout. Protesters demonstrate outside the Washington headquarters of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in November 2016 to protest the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs and the blatant profiteering of the drug industry. (Credit: Physicians for a National Health Program) Since election night 2016, the streets of the US have rung ...