…want cost? They want subsidies to help at least the poorest two-thirds of the 47 million uninsured buy insurance. The insurers would be in for a windfall injection — from…
My Favorite August: The 70 year Slog to Women’s Suffrage
…U.S. Constitution ran up against a wall of conservative Southern senators. So the women decided to win the vote by amending every single state constitution, one by one. There were…
California’s Medicaid disaster
…funding of the program. One of the great advantages of a single payer national health program is that it would eliminate the welfare-stigmatized Medicaid program. All children would be covered……
They Know What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet
…the 47 million Americans who lack insurance to acquire coverage. Some 18 million people are now covered by individual policies. Most consumers and even many insurance agents are unaware that…
California’s high-risk pool is sick
…about 13,000 Californians — about 2% of the medically uninsurable. Enrollment has dropped by almost a third since Schwarzenegger became governor. Subscribers pay two-thirds of the pool’s cost and the…
It’s Time for a Real Debate on National Health Insurance
…Security Act”-to establish a Canadian-style, single-payer system. In a single-payer system, private insurance companies are basically removed from health care. Instead, the government pays all health care providers, and controls…
Health care’s enigma in chief
…today – which is to say, controversial among political elites, but not among the public. ABC’s 2003 poll showed almost two-thirds of Americans desiring a single-payer system “run by the…
President Obama’s proposal to pay for reform
…really have much impact on our total national health expenditures (NHE)? Two-thirds of the proposed funding already appears in his FY 2010 budget. He would reduce overpayments to Medicare Advantage…
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren’t Fighting For Health Care For Everybody
…everybody-in-nobody-out system, a Medicare-for-All kind of single payer health care plan. 10. Despite the president’s own admission that only a single payer health care system will deliver what Americans want,…
Insurers can’t survive on 20% of the premiums?
…decide? Let the insurers have as much as the physicians are receiving? Right now they’re listening to the whining of the insurers, and single payer advocates are still not welcome….
As ACA deadline looms, Maine doctors show support for single-payer health care
…you prefer to make improvements to the current public/private system or a single-payer system such as a “Medicare for all” approach? Nearly 65 percent of doctors preferred the single-payer option,…
Wealth & Health: Public Taxes, Private Dollars
…their medically recommended recovery plan. “We need to be active on these issues,” San Francisco single-payer activist Don Bechler told me at the PNHP conference. “When we have access to…
