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Confusion on Medicare for All
By Ashley Kirzinger, Cailey Muñana, Lunna Lopes, Liz Hamel, and Mollyann Brodie
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 18, 2019
The most recent KFF Health Tracking Poll finds majorities
Do you really ‘like’ your private health insurance plan?
By Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram
Common Dreams, June 12, 2019
When I talk to friends, family, and colleagues about Medicare for All, sometimes someone asks, “but don’t
New rule using HRAs to further destroy health equity for employees
By Harris Meyer
Modern Healthcare, June 13, 2019
Employers will be able to hand their workers a chunk of tax-sheltered health reimbursement money and send them off
Donald Berwick’s endorsement of Medicare for All
Testimony by Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P.
U.S. House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee, June 12, 2019
Serving as CMS Administrator was the greatest privilege of
AMA narrowly defeats single payer amendment
By Steven Ross Johnson
Modern Healthcare, June 11, 2019
The American Medical Association will remain opposed to proposals for the U.S. to create a single-payer healthcare system.
Why Single Payer Medicare for All is an Imperative for Labor
By James G. Kahn
New Labor Forum, 2019, Vol. 28(2)
Public support for single-payer insurance is astoundingly high, with 68 percent in a recent poll placing high
Gruber and Sommers tell us what we have learned from 10 years of ACA
By Jonathan Gruber and Benjamin D. Sommers
National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2019
Abstract
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care
Why health profession students are fighting the AMA
The AMA protects corporate interests, not doctors and patients – and now it’s trying to stop Medicare for All
By Jonathan Michels, Will Cox, Alankrita Siddula
John Geyman’s ‘Struggling and Dying Under Trumpcare’
By John Geyman, M.D.
Copernicus Healthcare
From the Preface
There are four key issues involved in the future of U.S. health care:
Who is the health care system
Care for America’s elderly and disabled people relies on immigrant labor
By Leah Zallman, Karen E. Finnegan, David U. Himmelstein, Sharon Touw, and Steffie Woolhandler
Health Affairs, June 2019
Abstract
As the US wrestles with immigration policy and caring
Mitchell Katz endorses single payer
By Mitchell Katz, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, New York City Health + Hospitals
New York State Hearing, Joint Senate and Assembly Committees on Health,