In Healthcare Battle: For Profit Corporate Industry Continues To Win
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 […]
The Battles Ahead: Meet the Biggest Opponents of Single-Payer
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 […]
Is Defending the ACA Even a Real Message Anymore?
By Linda Valdez for the Arizona Republic. Linda Valdez: Raul Grijalva’s health-care town hall proves it: People want an agenda from Democrats, and they want it spelled out in the way America talks. The Democrats’ desire for strong leaders who can give them something to vote for — not just against — was on neon […]
Sit-In At Senator Mitch McConnell’s Office For Single Payer
By Thomas Novelly for The Courier-Journal. Photos from Kay Tillow of Kentuckians for Single Payer. Five people were issued federal citations by Department of Homeland Security officials Thursday during a sit-in at Senator Mitchell McConnell’s Louisville office to protest the Senate Republican health care bill. Attorney David Suetholz told the Courier-Journal that the five were cited with trespassing when […]
Happy Anniversary NHS!!
By Andrew Glass for Politico. Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan said the National Health Service would be governed by three core principles: that it meets everyone’s needs; that it be free at the point of delivery; and that it be based on clinical needs and not on the ability to pay. | AP Photo NOTE: […]
Rain Doesn’t Dampen Enthusiasm for Medicare for All
By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. On the Fourth of July, the Maryland Health Care is a Human Right campaign marched in the State Capital parade. Wearing yellow T shirts with the message “Healthcare is a Human Right” on them, the group of a dozen or so people, myself included, held tall banners and […]
Saving the ACA is NOT an Option
By Sherry Eason. Photo from March, 2017 in RIFuture.org. All citizens deserve Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.Without good health, opportunity is greatly diminished. I work in the health insurance business, I own a small Health Insurance Agency. My goal when I created my agency, and now more than ever, is to work myself […]
Yes, We Can Fix the ACA
By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. 2017 is the make or break year for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Seven years in, the flaws of the ACA are clear – tens of millions are still without health insurance, premiums and out of pocket costs are rising and causing people to either avoid and delay […]
Why I Occupied Sen. Whitehouse’s Office
By Andrew Stewart for CounterPunch. Above image: March 2017 town hall meeting in Rhode Island with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Sen. Jack Reed and Rep. James Langevin. (Stan Godlewski/For The Washington Post) Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor […]
Calls For Single Payer Grow Louder at Anti-Trumpcare Protests
By Casey Quinlan for Think Progress. Protesters at Capitol Hill on Wednesday. CREDIT: ThinkProgress/Jack Jenkins As Democratic leaders spoke at the Capitol on Wednesday, protesters repeatedly shouted “single payer!” “Single payer!” proved to be a rallying cry for demonstrators at an anti-Trumpcare protest on Capitol Hill this Wednesday, suggesting that a growing number of progressive activists want […]