Add this horror story of teacher charged $109K after heart attack to long list of reasons US badly needs Medicare For All
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Faith community must embrace single-payer health system
NOTE: This article calls for faith communities to advocate for a national single payer healthcare system. If you are part of a faith community, perhaps you can organize your community to hold educational events about single payer health care. If you need help getting started, contact us at info@healthoverprofit.org. By Fran Quigley for National Catholic […]
Hospitals Know How to Protect Mothers. They Just Aren’t Doing It.
By Alison Young, USA Today. Photo: Marco Mention’s wife, YoLanda, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter Serenity in 2015. Jack Gruber/USA Today. In countries with publicly funded national health care systems, such as the U.K, it is easier to insist hospitals and health providers follow standard safety practices, said Dr. James Martin Jr., director […]
5 doctors and surgeons tell us what they really think about Medicare-for-all
By Dylan Scott, Vox. Photo: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some doctors support single-payer health care — even if that means a lower salary. The muscle of the health industry lobby — pharma, health plans, doctors, and hospitals — is gathering to stop single payer. The Hill’s Peter Sullivan had the report on Friday morning. The industry’s influence […]