…our reliance on privately insured health care to become historical relics.” http://www.citizen.org/road-map-to-single-payer-health-care-report Report – “A Road Map to ‘Single-Payer‘” (21 pages): http://www.citizen.org/documents/road-map-to-single-payer-health-care-report.pdf Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. This very useful…
Democratsā hype about health care reform will hurt them
…single-payers achieve. Having properly defined a single-payer system, Obama continued: If I were starting a system from scratch, then I think that the idea of moving toward a single-payer system…
AMSA & PNHP Essay Contest Winners Announced:
…healthcare system, and it is a problem that a single-payer system could easily solve. A single-payer system would streamline all services through one formulary, one billing system, with one set…
AMSA & PNHP Essay Contest Winners Announced:
…healthcare system, and it is a problem that a single-payer system could easily solve. A single-payer system would streamline all services through one formulary, one billing system, with one set…
An Evangelical from a Conservative Background, Dr. Rocky White is Not Your Typical Advocate for Single-Payer Healthcare
…single-payer is. DR. ROCKY WHITE: Well, single-payer can be a lot of things, but basically what single-payer means is that you have one organization that handles the financing of healthcare….
Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing’s Latest Uprising
…Americans for Prosperity will have spent $45 million on organizing “voter education” and get-out-the-vote activities that test the limits of legal nonprofit expenditures. Actually, Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips…
Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing's Latest Uprising
…close, Americans for Prosperity will have spent $45 million on organizing “voter education” and get-out-the-vote activities that test the limits of legal nonprofit expenditures. Actually, Americans for Prosperity president Tim…
Emergency department closures can be lethal
…access to the next closest hospital, mortality for an acute myocardial infarction is increased. Under a well designed single payer system, planning is an integral part and is based on…
Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid
A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs
…How CBO analyzes the costs of proposals for singleāpayer health care systems that are based on Medicare’s feeāforāservice program (Working Paper No. 2020ā08). https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf Lange, A. (2012, March). Beyond the…
Obama administration intervenes to give $71.5 billion to overpaid, for-profit Medicare Advantage plans
…an improved Medicare for All, a national single-payer system. Single payer would save enough on wasteful private insurance-related bureaucracy and profits to provide high-quality care for everyone.” Dr. Andrew Coates,…
Why choice of private plans or a ‘public option’ is bad policy
The āPublic Optionā on Health Care Is a Poison Pill
…The Nation, October 7, 2019 Health care reform has been the most hotly contested issue in the Democratic presidential debates. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been pushing a single-payer…
Should a single payer system include complementary and alternative therapies?
Studying Complementary and Alternative Therapies
…on CAM, partly because so many sincere, dedicated individuals in our single payer coalitions are supportive of CAM – including some members of PNHP who should know better. But dammit!…
