What Americans think about rising health care costs, according to a new AP-NORC poll, Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2025, by Ali Swenson & Linley Sanders
Most
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Universal Healthcare is a Winning Strategy for the Dems & All of Us
Universal Healthcare Will Save Lives… and Could Save the Democratic Party, Common Dreams, Oct. 22, 2025, by Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH, president of Physicians
Government Shutdown Pivots on ACA Premium Subsidies
At Stake in the Shutdown Fight: Obamacare Prices That Could Rise by Thousands of Dollars, The New York Times, Oct. 1, 2025, by Margot Sanger-Katz
We’re the Lucky Ones
Comment:
By Jim Kahn, M.D., M.P.H.
My wife just got a very serious medical diagnosis.
We’re lucky:
World class clinical care at UCSF (with no network restrictions).
No
German Hospital Reform—Going Global
Germany begins major reform of its hospital sector, DW – Health Germany, Nov. 22, 2024, by Ben Knight
The German parliament has passed a law aiming
Preventable Deaths – Does Magnitude Matter?
Deaths in US (annual)
Sources
An assassination
1
Assassinations
9
Durbin 2021
Mass murders
722 (2023)
Pew Research 2025
Medicaid cuts 2026 budget
8,000 – 24,000
Gaffney 2025
Gun murders
17,927 (2023)
Pew Research 2025
Gun suicides
27,300 (2023)
Pew Research 2025
Lack of
The Social Mission
The Corporatization Deal – Health Care, Investors, and the Profit Priority, The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE, August 30, 2025, by Amitabh Chandra and Mark
How the US Achieved Health Security in 2035
Affordable high-quality health care for all Americans is the easiest problem to fix in the US, Ch 1 excerpt: HOW THE U.S. WON HEALTH SECURITY
National Polling Reveals Widespread Cost & Access Concerns
View of U.S. Healthcare Quality Declines to 24-Year Low, Gallup Poll, December 6, 2024, by Megan Brenan
Evaluations of U.S. healthcare quality among Republicans … are down sharply
Our Commitment to Help Those Who Have Too Little
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 20, 1937
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those
Trump’s Pervasive Assault on America’s Health
The Dismantling of American Health Care, NY Review of Books, July 8, 2025, by Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler
On July 4 President
Corporate Profit Trajectory Undermined US Health Care
A Gilded Age for Patients? The Broken Promises of Profit-Driven Medicine, From the Series: The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The New England Journal of