…that grief by perpetuating a system that dumps personal financial hardship on top of their medical misfortunes. The efficiencies of a single payer system would save enough to more assuredly…
Insurance doesn’t make you feel secure
…Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy, the research arm of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. Americans have had enough. Several recent polls have documented that two-thirds believe the…
Zycher’s dishonest report on administrative costs
…Reagan Council of Economic Advisers. He estimates that the real economic costs of moving to single payer would be at least twice those of today’s semimarket patchwork. “Administrative” costs, generally…
Medical bill problems will persist
…years, the proportion of Americans in families with medical bill problems remained significantly higher in 2010 compared with 2003 – 20.9 percent vs. 15.1 percent. And, in 2010, many people…
Safety Concerns About New Drugs Revealed
…medicine at Harvard Medical School. “By the time many drugs receive serious safety warnings, millions of Americans have already been exposed to their side effects, which can sometimes be fatal….
ACO patients receive two-thirds of their specialized care outside of their assigned ACO
…need instead is a financing model that is already proven to reduce waste and improve quality – a single payer national health program. The ACO advocates need a strong dose…
Obamacareās Empty Victory
…health outcomes. And in polls, some two thirds of Americans support single payer. Now our tasks is to shift the national debate away from how many people have insurance to…
Health policy experts versus everyone else: Why do the experts believe themselves?
…real debate about single payer. Then the most profound gap between the public (including physicians) and the experts would become more visible: By large majorities the public supports single-payer. https://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/docs/2011/Kip-Sullivan-Two-thirds-support-medicare-for-all.pdf…
VA: Do we awfulize, or do we fix it?
…medicine. “This VA scandal is a reminder that government-run single-payer health care does not work.” However, single payer advocates say what’s happening at the VA isn’t relevant to single payer…
Problem with defaulting to automatic plan renewal in exchanges
…enrolled for life. We really do need to replace this boondoggle with a single payer national health program – quality health care for everyone at a price we can afford….
Vermont and its educators lead the way on single payer
…the U.S. with a universal, publicly funded healthcare system. Also known as “single payer,” a universal system promises to contain the out-of-control costs of health care while delivering high-quality, comprehensive,…
Expand Medicare for all Americans
…premiums — and also issue a small tax on stock and bond transactions. A single-payer health care system built off Medicare would guarantee universal coverage and far better health outcomes….
