By Randi F. Marshall Rising health care costs and shrinking coverage have prompted a significant majority of Americans to support government regulation – or even universal health care, according to…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
…By Don McCanne, MD Two-thirds to three-fourths of Americans support each of the reform options listed, except one. Americans are fairly evenly divided on “Having a national health plan in…
"The Measure of America"
Development: US fails to measure up on 'human index'
…degrees. * For Americans to sustain, or obtain, a decent standard of living, the wages and opportunities of millions of Americans must improve. Growing inequality in income distribution and wealth…
Americans value employment-based health coverage, but…
…most Americans appear to value employment-based health coverage above the actual dollar amount that employers pay toward the care. When employed Americans with health coverage are asked whether they would…
"The Measure of America"
…that afford financial security increasingly require college degrees. For Americans to sustain, or obtain, a decent standard of living, the wages and opportunities of millions of Americans must improve. Growing…
More than 100 House Democrats to unveil ‘battle-ready’ Medicare-for-all plan as 2020 election looms
…a single-payer advocate, said it was the first “comprehensive, battle-ready” single-payer plan to be introduced in Congress. “The idea of Medicare-for-all has become extremely popular, but it’s at risk of…
The Medicare for All bill is a winner
…want to model America’s economy after Venezuela.” While former President Barack Obama spoke out in favor of a single-payer plan, he avoided the battle back in 2009 with the Affordable…
Medicare For All is answer to our morbid health system
…American health care. Protecting Medicare and expansion to cover all Americans such as “Medicare For All” are no longer muted voices; 70 percent of Americans now support “Single Payer Medicare…
How the Health Insurance Industry (and I) Invented the ‘Choice’ Talking Point
It was always misleading. Now Democrats are repeating it.
…the nation adopts systemic health reform, this idea goes, it would restrict the ability of Americans to choose their plans or doctors, or have a say in their care. It’s…
3.2 million Americans entered the ranks of the uninsured in 2017
U.S. Uninsured Rate Steady at 12.2% in Fourth Quarter of 2017
…coverage. It increased most among young adults, blacks, Hispanics and low-income Americans. By far, the biggest change in 2017 was the decline in the percentage of Americans purchasing their own…
Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It's Called 'Medicare for All'
…(Just ask House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, who took an epic political beating when he proposed a scheme to replace the successful single-payer system with a voucher scheme…
8 facts that explain what’s wrong with American health care
By Sarah Kliff Vox, September 2, 2014 1) Americans pay way, way, way more for health care than anyone else Health care in the United States is expensive. Insanely, outlandishly…
