…the US Senate to support single-payer healthcare. In the House, there is already a single-payer bill with 93 co-sponsors. In an issue of the British medical journal the Lancet devoted…
Medicare for all’s time has come
…and the pharmaceutical industry — but ignores their needs. They want real change, and poll after poll shows that they want to move toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. And for…
Bailout under a blue cross
…private, for profit health insurance, if the government were the non-profit single payer of the health care funds. Real reform is a single-payer national health insurance program that would be…
Why Canadians Are Healthier
…fare better is the subject of considerable academic debate. Some policy wonks say it’sCanada’s single-payer, universal health coverage system. Others point to Canadians’ different ethnic mix. Some think it’s because…
Doctor: National health care is a ‘moral imperative’
…“With a single-payer system, you get rid of all that,” Blake said. If all Americans are paying into that system, it will support a big pool of money for those…
Time for single payer?
…if a majority of Americans eventually decide that a single-payer system is the most cost-efficient way to provide health care for everyone. Why? Because our health system — a fragmented…
Transforming Section 1332 waivers into ‘State Relief and Empowerment Waivers’
Trump Administration announces State Relief and Empowerment Waivers to give states the flexibility to lower premiums and increase choices for their health insurance markets
…their insurance markets. The new guidance grants states more flexibility to design alternatives to the ACA and to give Americans more options to get health coverage that better meets their…
Health researchers: Graham-Cassidy bill would increase deaths by 41,600 annually
Doctors dub Graham-Cassidy “The Undertaker Full Employment Act”
…zero through a universal, single-payer health plan like Rep. John Conyers’ H.R. 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act or Sen. Bernie Sanders’ S. 1824, The Medicare for…
The reform proposal of the conservative Republicans
…select the one that meets their unique needs * Gives Americans the same standard health benefits as Members of Congress, so all Americans have a wide range of choices *…
Does the Congressional Progressive Caucus care about its "public option" principles?
…entire 77-Member Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) prefers a single-payer approach to health care reform. Therefore, it will come as no surprise as you work to craft comprehensive health care reform…
Redistribution of health care from the poor to the wealthy
…more important measures would address the problem presented in today’s article – redistribution of health care to the wealthy. A well designed single payer system would remove financial barriers to…
