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AFGE Endorses HR 676, National Single-Payer Bill
News releaseSingle Payer News, Feb. 16, 2016 The National Executive Council of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has unanimously endorsed HR 676, national single
The $3 trillion elephant in the presidential campaign
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 16, 2016Remember the heated discussions about health care in the Republican debates? No, you don’t, because they were
Medicare for all is what U.S. needs
By Jack BernardThe Citizen (Fayetteville, Ga.), Feb. 16, 2016I enjoyed reading Dr. Scherz’s (opinion column, 1-10-16), which was well written. As a retired senior level
The flip-flop behind the flawed attacks on Sanders’s single-payer plan
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Single-payer would cut costs, improve care
By John Benziger, M.D.Kennebec (Maine) Journal, Letters, Feb. 11, 2016Just as the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries sponsored “experts” to perpetuate the idea that their industries
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On Kenneth Thorpe’s Analysis of Senator Sanders’ Single-Payer Reform Plan
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