Nader Rips Sanders Democrats for putting Single Payer on Back Burner
By Russell Mokhiber for Single Payer Action. Above photo: Ralph Nader, by RYAN CARON KING / WNPR. Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) promised single payer activists that he would introduce his single payer bill in the Senate within the next couple of weeks. Now, according to Sanders’ staff, it’s not going to happen. In putting single […]
Obamacare repeal is an opportunity for Medicare for All
By Jonathan Tasini for CNN. (CNN)Democrats are denouncing Thursday’s House vote to repeal Obamacare as a huge step backward. As Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put it on Twitter and reiterated in remarks on the House floor, “Every Republican who votes for #Trumpcare will have it tattooed on their forehead. They will be held accountable.” The […]
Corporate Democrats Use Public Option to Derail Push for Single Payer
By Russell Mokhiber for Single Payer Action The corporate Democrats are using the public option to derail the newly energized movement to single payer. The single payer movement is halfway to passing single payer in the House of Representatives. One hundred and nine members of the House, out of a total of 218 needed for […]
New Coalition of Business Leaders Support Single Payer
Press Release from Business Leaders Transforming Healthcare Big Pharma…Market Failure Premieres in New York City The independently produced film ‘Big Pharma…Market Failure’ premiered at the Paley Center for Media in New York City on April 27. The film highlights the huge profits made by the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of sick Americans, and how […]
I finally agree that single payer would be better for business
By Gene Marks for the Washington Post. NOTE: We advocate for a single payer healthcare system, National Improved Medicare for All, that is of high quality and comprehensive so that supplemental insurance isn’t necessary. Allowing a tiered system undermines the quality of the entire system and having more than one insurance creates greater bureaucracy, complication […]
This one unbelievably expensive Iowa patient makes the case for single-payer healthcare
By Michael Hiltzik for the LA Times. NOTE: Here is an excerpt from an email we sent to health staffers in Congress. Most populations, including ours in the United States, follow what is known as “the 80-20 rule.” The top 20% with the greatest health needs uses 80% of our health spending and the bottom […]
Impossible to Promote Single Payer and Defend Obamacare
By Russell Mokhiber for Single Payer Action NOTE: In his recent article, Jim Hightower defends the ACA’s success by saying that private health insurers are experiencing record profits: “In fact, the profits of Aetna, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth, and other managed care corporations have soared under Obamacare. The biggest one, UnitedHealth, has seen the value of […]
Business Leaders, Physicians and Health Advocates’ Open Letter to President Trump
President Donald Trump The White House Washington, DC Dear President Trump: We are business owners, physicians and health policy experts writing to urge you to take action that will truly solve the healthcare crisis in the United States. The current approach is the most expensive and inefficient in the advanced world, is a drag on […]
Cured into Destitution
By Ronnie Cohen for Reuters. (Reuters Health) – When a badly injured patient rolls into the emergency room, Dr. John Scott doesn’t ask to see proof of insurance. Instead, he immediately begins treatment. Hospital care frequently saves patients from gunshots, stab wounds, crushing car accidents and other traumatic injuries. But Scott found in a new […]
How to Avoid getting Ripped Off at the Hospital
According to a doctor turned health care journalist. By Julia Belluz for Vox. Above image: Smart Design/Shutterstock “We hate our healthcare system. And yet we’ve come to accept it as an inevitable burden of being American,” Elisabeth Rosenthal writes in her new book, An American Sickness. “The American healthcare system is rigged against you,” […]