…Congress. Two key Senators — Max Baucus (D-MT), chair of the Finance Committee, and Edward Kennedy (D-MA), chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee — are developing legislation…
The hijacking of health reform
…are struggling to remain solvent. The private for-profit insurance industry diverts roughly $400 billion/year from medical services. In addition, the Senate Commerce Committee recently released a staff report about how…
Forum On Single-Payer Healthcare System Packs House
…right for all residents of the Commonwealth.” The summary stated that Massachusetts has the highest per-capita healthcare costs in the country, that they rise every year and that the commonwealth…
Another middleman, with a Donald Trump wig!
…wearing a Donald Trump wig, a comical green jacket and hat of dollar bills. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/010309dnbuscaresource.38426b8.html As long as we insist that health care continue to be financed through our dysfunctional,…
MedPAC will recommend repeal of MIPS
MIPS Takes a Beating at MedPAC
…make the advanced Alternative Payment Models more accessible for physicians. The commission could then decide whether to recommend one or both options to HHS. https://www.medpagetoday.com… *** URGENT: Explaining MIPS; Action…
URGENT: Steffie Woolhandler’s message on California
…won’t come from the powerful and rich. It won’t come from the medical-industrial complex. As Steffie says, “we’re only going to get single payer if the populace keeps the pressure…
Single payer support growing but malleable
…that it would reduce the role of private health insurance companies in health care, total support increases to 71 percent and 65 percent, respectively. http://www.kff.org… Topline: Precise questions and trends…
Carol Paris: We have to take the lead, and they will follow
…profit of the for-profit insurance industry. If we create a public option, we’re just creating another opportunity for the insurance companies, the health insurance companies, to put all the sickest…
Why I was arrested while asking Sen. Portman to vote against TrumpCare
…Roona Ray is a board-certified family physician and HIV and public health specialist, and serves on the board of Physicians for a National Health Plan, Metro New York Chapter. http://www.cleveland.com……
Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say
…and are subject to public debate, unlike private plans. A Change is Gonna Come The transition to a single-payer system will be complex, but despite what the no-can-doers say,…
Medicare for All wins backing of conservative Southern Democrats
…for American Progress (CAP) found. The population of Cooper’s district, which includes Nashville and communities west of the city, is over 23 percent black compared to 17 percent of the…
Northwoods residents gather to support Medicare For All bill
…10 a.m. on Earth Day, April 22. Beginning at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Minocqua, those in attendance will march to Torpy Park, where a rally will be held. http://www.lakelandtimes.com……