The UAW’S 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All, JACOBIN, March 31, 2024, by Jonathan Michels & Will Cox
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain
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MAGA Mike Johnson Explores Medicare for All
Embattled House Speaker Reaches Across Aisle to Dems on Health Reform, USA Wire Service, April 1, 2024, by Bir Nisan
Mike Johnson (R, LA), Speaker of
In Health Care, Fake Good News Beats Disaster
A Tsunami of Fake Good News, Healing and Stealing, March 23, 2024, by John Canham-Clyne
Really, the ACA is getting us there! Just give us 500
Private Equity Takeover of Emergency Care = Moral Hazard
“I’m A Doctor: Corporate Greed Is Killing Your ER,” 12-minute video, YouTube – More Perfect Union, March 18, 2024
The following are random quotes from physicians
The Burdens of Prior Authorization
Denying Your Health Care Is Big Business in America, On YouTube, NYT Opinion Video, March 14, 2024, Video by Alexander Stockton
Doctors are often required to get
Private Equity vs. Health Care
Private Equity-Acquired Physician Practices and Market Penetration Increased Substantially. 2012-21, Health Affairs, March 2024, by Ola Abdelhadi, et al.
Private equity (PE) firms have consistently shown
Medicare Advantage Worsens Coverage
What Do Medicare Beneficiaries Value About Their Coverage?, Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2024 Value of Medicare Survey, February 22, 2024, by Gretchen Jacobson, et
Medicare Advantage: How Private Insurers Exploit Medicare
Obama CMS Chief: Medicare Advantage Plans Game the System, MedPage Today, March 1, 2024, by Cheryl Clark
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Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P. was the administrator of the
Veterans Care Under Attack
Trump’s VA Plans Look Too Much Like Biden’s VA Reality, The American Prospect, Feb. 19, 2024, by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
While Project 2025 plots
Failure to Address Homelessness Harms Health
Finland Sees Housing and Health as Inextricably Linked, The Commonwealth Fund, International Insights, Vol. 24, by Munira Z. Gunja
It’s hard to imagine that just four
Presidential Leadership in US Health Reform
Letters from An American, February 18, 2024, by Heather Cox Richardson
That the American people in the twenty-first century celebrate Abraham Lincoln as a great president
No Surprises Act has Unpleasant Surprises for Providers & Patients
Is the No Surprises Act backfiring on patients? And why is HHS Secretary Becerra letting it happen?, Health Care Un-Covered, February 14, 2024, by Wendell