…statewide coalition to push for adoption of a single payer health care system at the federal and state levels. Single Payer NY will help coordinate grassroots education and outreach activities…
Pa. advocates want single payer; 'Obamacare' doesn't go far enough
'We have to save our health care system for itself,' says Dr. Dwight Michael
…one agency – the government. Different from the British system of socialized medicine, physicians and hospitals under a single-payer system can be either publicly or privately owned. A single-payer system…
Single Payer Resurgence in Dem Primaries
Single payer / Medicare for All has been highlighted by Democrats winning recent primaries. Its far-reaching financial advantages for families must be explained to general election voters.
…are resuscitating the single-payer idea. “I do think that there is a resurgence in interest in single payer,” says Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, the organizing group founded…
Woolhandler and Himmelstein respond to Urban Instituteās doubling down on errors
…UI’s projection that implementing single payer would boost total health spending by $519 billion in 2017. First, UI ignored about 75 percent of the administrative savings that single-payer reform would…
Woolhandler and Himmelstein respond to Urban Instituteās doubling down on errors
…UI’s projection that implementing single payer would boost total health spending by $519 billion in 2017. First, UI ignored about 75 percent of the administrative savings that single-payer reform would…
Democrats Escalate Attack on Single Payer
…by this question, Wyden reminds reporters in the room that single payer is not the topic of this press conference. (No, the topic is snuffing out single payer.) “My guess…
The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It
…few arguments for their superiority to a single-payer system, mainly the (dubious) claim that single-payer would reduce medical innovation. But the main reason for not proposing single-payer is political fear:…
Himmelstein and Woolhandler set the facts straight on Thorpeās analysis
…Bernie Sanders’ single-payer national health insurance proposal. Thorpe, an Emory University professor who served in the Clinton administration, claims the single-payer plan would break the bank. Thorpe’s analysis rests on…
Himmelstein and Woolhandler set the facts straight on Thorpeās analysis
…Bernie Sanders’ single-payer national health insurance proposal. Thorpe, an Emory University professor who served in the Clinton administration, claims the single-payer plan would break the bank. Thorpe’s analysis rests on…
How Trumpcareās Failure Sets the Stage for Single-Payer
…begin building a proposal for a single-payer health care system. Politically, the momentum clearly points left. Long derided by conservatives and centrists as socialist fantasy, single-payer health care (sometimes called…
International experts tell senators that single-payer improves national health at less cost
…and profit. According to the advocacy organization Public Citizen, a number of experts from single-payer nations recently testified at a Senate sub-committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a leading supporter…
Data Update – Summer 2014 newsletter
…shift resources to more appropriate settings. Whether it will control costs or just, in the absence of a single payer that can slash bureaucracy, restrict access to care, is unclear….
