…and jobs 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…
World’s Best Medical Care?
…many Americans hold surprisingly negative views of their health care system. Polls in Europe and North America seven to nine years ago found that only 40 percent of Americans were…
Where’s outcry over the lack of health care?(Baltimore Sun )
…is the direct cause of death for more than 18,000 Americans every year. These 18,000 Americans die because of complications from very treatable diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes. In…
Health Care Can Be Cured: Here’s How (TIME Magazine)
…legislative process because of fierce opposition by the health-care industry. To discredit the single-payer idea, insurers, HMOs, for-profit hospitals and other private interests play on Americans’ long-standing fears of Big…
Health care financial insecurity is at a record low, but…
…that might not be appropriate for a taxpayer financed system). Removing financial barriers is a crucial step toward improving health care access. Let’s enact single payer. Then we can celebrate….
Americans are satisfied with their insurance – Not!
Data Note: Americans’ Satisfaction with Insurance Coverage Kaiser Family Foundation September 2009 Some Dissatisfaction Despite Positive Ratings How would you rate your overall insurance coverage? 90% – Excellent/Good 9% –…
Trump Responsible for Lower Premiums? … “Laughable”
ACA defenders take issues with HHS Secretary's recent claims
…despite plenty of “fear-mongering,” — and it also didn’t happen in Canada when it switched to a single-payer system, Paris noted. (See MedPage Today‘s series “A Tale of Two Nations”…
It’s time for Medicare for all
…measure other than national health insurance will fail. Support for single payer is growing. According to the Pew Research Center, 60 percent of Americans believe that the federal government has…
More Americans got health insurance in 2011, Census says
…health coverage,” the group’s Dr. Steffie Woolhandler said. “Today’s Census Bureau report underscores the urgency of going beyond the federal health law and swiftly implementing a single-payer, improved-Medicare-for-all program.” http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13828647-more-americans-got-health-insurance-in-2011-census-says…
NORC poll shows affording health care remains a serious problem
Americans' Views of Healthcare Costs, Coverage, and Policy
…About half of Americans disapprove of the way their representative in Congress is handling the cost of healthcare. Also… Americans’ support for a single payer healthcare system has increased from…
AP-NORC poll: Americans want more government spending on health care
Poll: More Americans say too little spending on health
…who are telling us that people would prefer to keep their private employer-sponsored health plans, so we should not enact a single payer Medicare for All program. In contrast, other…
Are You Sure You Actually ‘Like’ Your Private Health Insurance?
In 2018, as millions of Americans borrowed $88 billion to pay for health care, 62 CEOs of health care companies made a combined total of $1.1 billion in compensation
…insurance?” It’s not hard to see where they got that idea. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the leading lobbyist for the for-profit insurance industry, says 71 percent of Americans “like”…
