…But you can do that under improved Medicare-for-All.” Deirdre Fulton is a staff writer at Common Dreams. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License http://commondreams.org/news/2016/01/05/trouble-profit-healthcare-even-insured-face-mountains-debt…
The reform proposal of the conservative Republicans
…to risk adjust among participating insurance companies to penalize companies that “cherry pick” health patients and reward insurers that encourage prevention/wellness and cover patients with pre-existing conditions * Expands coverage…
Single-payer health system would cost less, provide more
…save lives and money, and we have no time to lose. Katie Johnson, a fourth-year medical student at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, is pursuing a career in pediatrics. http://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/katie-johnson-single-payer-health-system-would-cost-less-provide/article_115397d8-3ad3-5264-8c58-771ebee592e0.html…
Medicare for all really is ‘the only answer’
…during the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. He helped to shape and advance the call for an understanding of health care not as a commodity but as a human right….
Health care in America: On single-payer systems
…for everyone. A 2013-2014 American Community Survey showed New Mexico with an uninsured rate roughly 4 percent above the national level. New Mexico continues to face a critical health insurance…
Sen. Baucus defines universal coverage
Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Sen. Max Baucus Kaiser Family Foundation May 21, 2009 John Reichard, CQ HealthBeat: I understood you to say, Senator, that you don’t expect to get…
‘We need fundamental changes’: US doctors call for universal healthcare
…support for a single-payer system, deeper digging by some polls finds that support dwindles when individuals are asked about giving up their private health insurance and paying additional taxes. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/05/us-doctors-calling-universal-healthcare-system-affordable-care-act…
Cancer Deaths have Spiked During the Great Recession
…simpler than expected. What we call the healthcare gap is misdiagnosed: It’s actually a blind spot in our political imagination. Michelle Chen is a contributing writer for The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/article/cancer-deaths-have-spiked-during-the-great-recession/…
Replace ACA with Medicare for All
…health system quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and healthy lives” (Commonwealth Fund, 2016). Why won’t politicians adopt what is better and costs less like our competitors? Because they care…
Does the Democratic Party really believe that health care is a right?
…survey of health care in 11 high-income countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States), the Commonwealth Fund reached…
Even the insured line up for charity
…or the solution. https://www.theatlantic.com… *** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. You really don’t need a long article like this to understand that our current health care financing system falls far…
Do Americans support an individual mandate?
…responsibility compare to that for a stand-alone mandate? A shared-responsibility plan was more popular than the stand-alone mandate in 2008. Fifty-nine percent of the public supported it, compared to the…