By Ed Weisbart, M.D.
Common Dreams, March 18, 2021
Just days after passage of the American Rescue Plan, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is introducing an updated version
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 52
March 14, 2021
Child and adolescent psychiatrist (and longtime single-payer advocate) Dr. Claire Cohen explains how commercial health insurers constantly interfere in the delicate practice of
Trump’s Policy Failures Have Exacted a Heavy Toll on Public Health
By Jacob Bor, Sc.D., S.M.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Scientific American, March 5, 2021
In the final year of Donald Trump’s presidency,
Why Hasn’t the Pandemic Mobilized a National Health Care Movement?
March 5, 2021
PNHP president Dr. Susan Rogers appeared on the Open Mind podcast with host Alexander Heffner on March 5, 2021. She discussed the many
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 51
February 28, 2021
James McGee, recently retired from the Transit Employees’ Health & Welfare Fund, outlines why single payer would be a win for organized labor.
‘Blood on Our Hands’: 400+ Groups Call on Biden to Support Making Vaccine Recipes Available to the World
By Kenny Stancil
Common Dreams, February 26, 2021
Calling it a moral imperative as well as an urgent public health and economic necessity, over 400 progressive groups
On public policy and health in the Trump era: A scathing indictment
This article includes audioFebruary 19, 2021
One year ago this month, America lost its first life to the coronavirus. Since then, nearly 500,000 Americans have succumbed to the pandemic,
Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.; David Himmelstein, M.D.; and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Health Affairs Blog, February 16, 2021
For the first time in a quarter century,
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 50
February 15, 2021
James McGee, recently retired from the Transit Employees' Health & Welfare Fund, discusses the lofty goals of single-payer reform, and the challenge posed
Our failing healthcare system costs us countless lives. It’s time to adopt Medicare for All
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Salon, February 11, 2021
Over the past year, COVID-19 has inundated the ICU where I work. Death and suffering have become the
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump’s policies
By Amanda Holpuch
The Guardian, February 11, 2021
The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the
Roughly 40% of the USA’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented, new study says
By Ken Alltucker
USA TODAY, February 11, 2021
About 40% of the nation’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if the United States’ average death rate matched