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
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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
Budget Bill Sabotages Medicare
$535 billion in cuts to Medicare. Republicans fingerprints are all over it, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island), YouTube short (90 seconds)
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By Jim Kahn, M.D.,
Looming ACA Premium Hikes … A Political Hot Potato
Individual market insurers requesting largest premium increases in more than 5 years, Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, July 18, 2025, by Jared Ortaliza, et al.
… The
Responding to Anti-Universal Care Social Media
Generating Opposition to universal healthcare policies the United States: An analysis of private health industry advertising on Meta platforms, PLOS Global Public Health, July 16,
The Failure of Neoliberalism in Health Care
The Same Script: Value-Based Payment, Managed Care, and Neoliberalism, The Law and Political Economy Project, July 15, 2025, by Hayden Rooke-Ley
Ultimately, the private rationing of
Immigrants and Health Care
Who Will Care for America? Immigration Policy and the Coming Health Workforce Crisis, The New England Journal of Medicine, July 5, 2025, by Patricia Mae
Premier Medical Journal Scrutinizes Corporatization of US Health Care
Defining Health Care “Corporatization”, The New England Journal of Medicine, June 28, 2025, by Erin C. Fuse Brown
In Paul Starr’s seminal 1982 work, “The Social
Laying out the Ill-Effects of Medicaid Cuts in the Congressional Budget Bill
Projected Effects of Proposed Cuts in Federal Medicaid Expenditures on Medicaid Enrollment, Uninsurance, Health Care, and Health, Annals of Internal Medicine, June 17, 2025, by