Senate to Vote on HR 676 Expanded and Improved Medicare for All
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 […]
How Hospitals got richer off Obamacare
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 […]
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 […]
Single Payer is the Alternative to Dying Under Austerity
By Mike Ludwig for Truth Out‘s Medicare for All Series. Photo: Maxlkt; Edited: LW / TO This piece is part of Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All, a Truthout original series. Every day about 10,000 people turn 65 in the United States, and the number of people over the age of 85 […]
House Democrats See Medicare for All as Answer to ‘Trumpcare’
By Daniel Marans for the Huffington Post. Above photo: Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has been introducing a single-payer bill since 2003. It now has 111 co-sponsors — a significant majority of the House Democratic Caucus. By Sarah Rice/Getty Images House Democrats on Wednesday touted unprecedented majority support for a bill that would expand Medicare to the […]
Shea-Porter Introduces Fake “Universal” Health Care Bill
By Margaret Flowers, M.D. Photo from WMUR. Beware. In Washington, DC, words can lose their meaning. Representative Carol Shea-Porter, from the First District in New Hampshire, introduced legislation last month that she claims is “universal health care” when in reality it would delay and prevent actual universal health care. Her bill is called the “Medicare […]
A Guide To The American Health Care Act
By Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times. Above photo by AP/Susan Walsh. Republicans in the House say they have the votes to pass the American Health Care Act, a measure that will repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The vote is scheduled for Thursday. We analyzed the AHCA in March, when the original version was […]
Battle against Trumpcare Fuels Battle for Single Payer
By Sarah Jaffe for Truthout. Protesters demonstrate outside the Washington headquarters of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in November 2016 to protest the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs and the blatant profiteering of the drug industry. (Credit: Physicians for a National Health Program) Since election night 2016, the streets of the US have rung […]
American People Are The Real Majority And They Want Medicare For All
By Aaron Mate of The Real News. Carol Paris, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, says the Republican vote to repeal Obamacare won’t deter the movement pressuring Democrats to back Medicare-for-All. Dr. Carol Paris is a recently retired physician living in Nashville, TN. She is the President of Physicians for a National Health […]