…Americans’ health or sparing their wallets. What would help is a proven reform proposal that is long overdue: a single-payer national health program. Such a system would provide universal coverage…
Lack of health insurance and U.S. mortality
…thousands of our fellow Americans, every single year, will die, and many more will suffer and become much sicker than they should.” He submitted the Annals of Internal Medicine review,…
Health Insurance Compromise – Virtue or Vice?
Today is a special and long HJM. Chen et al propose an insurance reform middle ground between a fully free market and universal coverage. Yet with compromise comes complexity – a tough lesson surely learned in the US. Following Uwe Reinhardt’s vision that poor & rich have equal access to health leads us to single payer: care for everyone, while saving money overall. On Valentine’s Day, this seems a powerful message of love for America.
…Americans must know, is home to much human kindness and excellence? “On a single-payer Medicare-for-All system for America. In 1989, Uwe recommended the single-payer system to Taiwan when Taiwan’s government…
National Coalition Calls on Leaders to “Dream Bigger” and Rally Behind Medicare for All
PNHP joins more than 325 advocacy organizations across the country to call for Medicare for All as the centerpiece of a bold agenda for working people
…Nurses United, People’s Action Institute, Social Security Works, Labor Campaign for Single Payer, and Healthcare NOW, joined a broad coalition of organizations in releasing an open letter urging policymakers, advocates,…
Happy 48th birthday, Medicare
…under a single-payer program like H.R. 676. Each year, Medicare’s birthday creates a wonderful opportunity to come together and work in a constructive way advocating for transitioning our for-profit and…
Fulfilling the Promise of Medicare
…and expanding Medicare so that it covers all Americans. The benefits that Medicare has brought to older Americans are almost boundless. Millions of Americans have lived longer, more productive, healthier…
Why Americans Are Drowning in Medical Debt
…minute. It’s practices like these that contribute to Americans’ widespread medical-debt woes. Roughly 40 percent of Americans owe collectors money for times they were sick. U.S. adults are likelier than those in other developed…
Medicare is the patriotic, prudent, medically vital thing to do
…thing to do. I appreciate the serious tone that Sally Pipes took in presenting her Koch-funded arguments against single-payer national health insurance (“Government single-payer health coverage may be nation’s future,”…
Changing our health care system will take time
…Americans do in fact want a national health plan to cover all. With Medicare as the sole payer, not only can costs be controlled and access guaranteed, but we can…
“Medicare for All”: A Uniting Call to Action in the Age of Trump
…reform chaired by Sen. Max Baucus to ask why there wasn’t a single advocate for single-payer health care on a 41-person panel. Baucus had all eight peaceful protesters, including Dr….
The public’s views on health care costs
The Upcoming U.S. Health Care Cost Debate — The Public’s Views
…options, then support for the single payer Medicare for All model would certainly prevail. If we could only figure out why so many cling tenaciously to the simplistic antigovernment rhetoric…
Do we really have the world’s best cancer care?
…access to that care. Access for younger Americans depends critically on wealth. Poor Americans without insurance may not receive the excellent care available to wealthier Americans. At least not until…
