By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice, August 16, 2019
Ana felt that she had to make a choice: obtain desperately-needed health services—like therapy—for her nine-year old daughter
AMA Drops Out of Group Opposing Medicare for All
By Joyce Frieden
MedPage Today, August 16, 2019
The American Medical Association has dropped out of the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, a coalition of healthcare
The Cost-Effectiveness of Medicare for All
By Ken Lefkowitz
New York Times, Letters, August 16, 2019
To the Editor:
Re: “The Tough Calls on ‘Medicare for All’” (The Upshot, Aug. 13):
The discussions about choice
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 18
This article includes audioAugust 15, 2019
Emergency medicine physician assistant and Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition founder Kristy Fogle discusses her recent organizing work and reminds listeners that all private
Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race.
By Jeneen Interlandi
New York Times, August 14, 2019
The smallpox virus hopscotched across the post-Civil War South, invading the makeshift camps where many thousands of newly
Medicare for all: fears and facts
By James G. Kahn, M.D. and Elliot Marseille, Dr.P.H.
The Hill, August 14, 2019
Each candidate has their own way to fix what ails health insurance. Everyone
Two med students make case for single-payer health care
By Scott Swartz and Bradley Heinz
San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 2019
The most difficult part of our first year of medical school wasn’t memorizing anatomy or
History of health insurance in the U.S.
This article includes audioBy Bryan Nehman
WBAL NewsRadio, August 8, 2019
Health insurance has changed dramatically since its inception in the early 1900s, when Blue Cross Blue Shield charged 50
Why Americans can’t afford health care: the history
By Laura Kaplan-Weisman, M.D.
Baltimore Sun, August 2, 2019
As increasing numbers of Americans are unable to afford health care, we must ask: Why does our health
We overpay for broken health care. Medicare for All would be much better and cost less.
By Marcia Angell, M.D.
USA TODAY, August 2, 2019
The usual response to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal is: “It sounds good, but how can we pay
It’s time for Democrats to get their facts right on Medicare-for-all
By Pramila Jayapal
Washington Post, August 1, 2019
In the wake of the second Democratic presidential debate, it is clear that Medicare-for-all has become a defining issue
A for-profit company bought, then closed, a Philadelphia hospital. Medicare for All could have saved it.
By Walter Tsou, M.D., M.P.H.
Tarbell, August 1, 2019
Fifty-four years ago, President Lyndon Johnson went to Independence, Mo., to present the first Medicare cards to President