…media campaign cleverly crafts negative (and misleading) perceptions of a universal health care system. Those of us advocating for universal, comprehensive, affordable health care have faced intense opposition, often from…
OECD/WHO report on the Swiss health system
…solidarity, but health financing inequalities remain # Switzerland has reached universal coverage Health insurers have been required to refuse payment for health care bills presented by negligent defaulters (366,000) until…
Oregon lawmaker pitches universal health care study
…or most eastern states, like Pennsylvania. Lou Sinninger of Health Care for All Oregon said the Oregon universal health care study will give grassroots organizers who favor universal healthcare a…
Health care in America/Canada'S way
…Bush and Kerry health care plans. Tuesday Retirees hit hard as health benefits are lost. Wednesday Health care tops the labor-management agenda. Today How Canada provides health care for all….
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#4 of 6)
…in the entire world does that. What does “health care finance” refer to? Universal coverage? Less-than-universal coverage? A single-payer system? The current multiple-payer system? The figure Hacker and Schlesinger refer…
AFL-CIO convention unanimously endorses single-payer system
…experiences of other countries that have achieved universal coverage at a fraction of U.S. health care costs. Unlike our fragmented and flawed health care system, a successful universal health care…
A Government Takeover of Health Care, with Higher Costs, and even Worse Care??
…proposal threatens health care for seniors? Then check out Medicare for All. If you really want to protect Medicare and health care for seniors and the disabled, then adopt Enhanced…
Medicare-for-All Is Not Medicare, and Not Really for All. So What Does It Actually Mean?
Some candidates use Medicare-for-all to establish themselves as bold progressives or moderate pragmatists. The Trump administration uses it as a point of attack. But voters donāt know what it actually means, and none of the candidates explain it.
…America’s health care woes. He mumbled something about being too young for Medicare and laid bare the disconnect between how voters think and talk about health care and how candidates…
Health debate energizing Tucson ‘Medicare for All’ proponents
…Medicare for All. “It’s just being discussed more, and when I go to events, I think people understand health care better.” Witte says her personal evolution includes now seeing health…
Tales of a Family Doc…..a year later
…of personal responsibility in health care. The Hanley family dilemma, and mine, however,is that health care and health care finance, even of the routine variety as in this case, is…
Health debate energizing Tucson ‘Medicare for All’ proponents
…Medicare for All. “It’s just being discussed more, and when I go to events, I think people understand health care better.” Witte says her personal evolution includes now seeing health…
What About Single Payer?
An Answer to the Question About How to Reform Our Health Care System
…European countries have a higher percentage of elderly citizens, yet they spend much less on health care than we do — and have better outcomes. Universal access to health care…
