People’s Talking Points about NIMA for Candidates
CLICK ON THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD A PDF: Peoples_Talking_Points People’s Talking Points on National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) for Congressional Candidates National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) is supported by a majority of people in the United States. Polls show consistent high support by Democrats (75 to 80%) and Independents (58 to 60%) and growing […]
The Healthcare Bait-and-Switch: From the Clintons to Obama and Back Again
By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report “Cory Booker and others are joining the pro-single payer bandwagon to weaken it from the inside.” On the campaign trail in January of 2016, Hillary Clinton told Iowa voters that Bernie Sanders’ single payer health care proposal was an idea whose time would never come. “People who have health […]
Democrats’ New Medicare-for-All Plan Isn’t
By Joan Brunwasser for OpEdNews.com Joan Brunwasser: My guest today is Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician from Maryland who is co-director of Popular Resistance and coordinator of Health Over Profit for Everyone Campaign. Welcome back to OpEdNews, Margaret. Joan Brunwasser: Your most recent piece [2.25.18] in OpEdNews is entitled: A Proposal Designed to Confuse Public and […]
Media Embrace New ‘Reform’ Group as Bulwark Against Guaranteed Healthcare
By Justin Anderson for FAIR In recent years, there has been rapid growth in support for Medicare for All, a single-payer healthcare system that would guarantee the universal medical coverage that the Affordable Care Act failed to achieve with its passage in 2010. Sixty-four percent of Democrats support single-payer healthcare, while over half of Americans […]
California launches investigation following stunning admission by Aetna medical director
By Wayne Drash for CNN California’s insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients’ records when deciding whether to approve or deny care. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones expressed outrage after CNN showed him a transcript of the […]
Physician-industry relationships further cloud hypertension guideline
NOTE: Dr. Romano demonstrates the conflict that arises when health care is a for-profit industry. The bottom line is profit and one way to make a profit is to create more demand for your product. This is another reason that we need a national health program that has health as the bottom line so that […]
Health Over Profit for Everyone Basics
WHAT IS NATIONAL IMPROVED MEDICARE FOR ALL (NIMA)? Here is a one-pager on what is and isn’t NIMA: What is NIMA National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) would create a national health insurance that covers every person living in the United States with comprehensive benefits from birth to death. It’s that simple. One set of rules. […]
Lottery Winner Dies 23 Days After Being Able to Afford Health Care
By Elizabeth Cassidy for The Mighty. Note: This article highlights once again the cruelty of a market-based healthcare system. In any other country that has a universal healthcare system, people like Donald wouldn’t have to wait until they win the lottery in order to get health care. Health conditions could be caught earlier and outcomes […]
How To Not Die In America
By Molly Osberg for Splinter News. Photo: by the author “A photo I took the first time I picked up my phone.” On the second Tuesday in June, I start to feel fluish. If this is 2016 and I’m still a freelance writer, I’m losing money immediately on the assignments I can’t complete because my […]
National Call Presentation on Long Term Care
By Henry Moss, PhD for Health Over Profit, Feb. 5, 2018 hmoss011@gmail.com http://www.2030caregivingcrisis.com/ A free pdf of Dr. Moss’ book is available on the website. En Español In this talk, I’d like to paint a picture of a caregiving crisis that will hit the U.S. full force around 2030, with peak effects lasting through 2050. As […]