By Michael Corcoran for TruthOut. Above photo from Haaretz. NOTE: HOPE is focused on winning National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA). Naturally, we oppose the Republican health plan, just as we oppose the Affordable Care Act for failing to be universal, guaranteed and affordable. Two take-aways from this article are the power of civil resistance ...

By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) announced recently that he will introduce an amendment during the Senate healthcare debate this week that would replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with John Conyers’ HR 676: “The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.” Montana received a unique provision in the 2010 ...

Medicare’s 52nd anniversary takes place on July 30, at the beginning of the August Congressional Recess. The call to action is below, and here is a list of actions: Citrus Springs, FL – July 27, 4 to 6 pm. Movie: “Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point“. Melbourne, FL – July 24, 5 to 7 pm. Medicare for All ...

By Geoff Coventry in Intrepid Report. A fully privatized system can never adequately provision the nation. The Republicans have big plans for health care in this country: to eliminate coverage for millions of Americans while delivering a big tax cut to the rich. As someone who stands to benefit from that tax cut, let me just ...

By Dr. Adam Gaffney for Jacobin Magazine. Photo: A doctor examines a patient at a Bay Pines, FL hospital in 1967. Chris Warren / Flickr We have the capacity to wage a transformative health care fight in the days ahead. Medicare for All or bust. The saga of Trumpcare may finally be behind us. The wretched ...

By Dan Diamond for Politico. Photo: John Boyd, whose family has lived in the neighborhood since 1923, drives past a run-down home just one block from Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic. (M. Scott Mahaskey / Politico) After fending off challenges to their tax-exempt status, the biggest hospitals boosted revenue while cutting charity care. A  decade after the nation’s ...

By Kaeli Subberwal and Mollie Reilly for Huffington Post. Photo by Bill Clark/Getty Images. NOTE: HOPE’s own Dr. Carol Paris was one of the advocates arrested yesterday in the Senate. Activists and Medicare for All supporters took action together to both protest the Republican’s Senate health bill and call for National Improved Medicare for All. ...

By Peter Dolack for Systemic Disorder.   The cost of not having single payer: $1.4 trillion per year. You could not devise a worse health care system than that of the United States if you tried. By far the most expensive, with among the worst results. Perhaps saying “among” the worst results is being too kind. ...

By Ajamu Baraka in Dissident Voice. NOTE: In this article, Ajamu Baraka argues that the most efficient single payer healthcare plan is a socialized system, such as the one in the United Kingdom, that includes taking control of the delivery of care and the manufacturers of goods such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices. National Improved ...

By Michael Corcoran for TruthOut. Above photo: Health care activists gather outside Trump Tower to “declare healthcare a human right,” January 13, 2017, in New York City. (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images) It has become fashionable to write premature obituaries of the Senate bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, using hyperbolic and misleading ...