…Face of ObamaCare: Promises vs. Reality and What Comes Next” and “How Obamacare is Unsustainable: Why We Need a Single-Payer Solution For All Americans.” He is professor emeritus of family…
Premiums, cost sharing, and provider choice all worse in 2017 ACA exchange plans
…market for individual health plans. These problems would disappear with a single universal risk pool covering everyone – a single payer national health program, aka an improved Medicare for all….
Medicare Advantage coding intensity could cost taxpayers $200 billion
…of the Medicare population. And that other two-thirds of the extra payments? They keep that to help pay for their high administrative costs that characterize the unique waste in the…
Senators Sanders, Cruz show fundamental differences on health care
…dent in the amount of autonomy patients and their physicians have over their health care. This is the case because nearly two-thirds of Americans have private insurance. The ever-present middlemen,…
Doctor’s prescription for health insurance: Remove the profit motive
Single-payer advocate speaks in Charlotte March 9 By Herbert L. White The Charlotte (N.C.) Post, March 5, 2017 Is single-payer health insurance inevitable? American lawmakers are consumed about repealing and…
Why Wonāt More American Corporations Support Single-Payer Health Care?
…to something: The week that began with Munger endorsing single-payer ended with Aetna Healthcare’s chief executive officer Mark Bertolini saying the United States needed to “debate” single-payer but stopping short…
The cruelty of using Medicaid as a tool to reduce budget deficits
…be an essential insurance program for these individuals and families (in the absence of a single payer system). However, new poll results by Kaiser Foundation show that one-half of Republicans…
Importance of Medicaid in public health emergencies
…in addressing the immediate and long-term effects of public health crises. Medicaid is by far the nation’s biggest single source of health care financing for dealing with critical public health…
Clinton and Trump on healthcare
The Presidential Debate That Wasn’t By Jeanne Lenzer The BMJ, Sept. 27, 2016 The 90 minute presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ended last night without a single…
Medi-Cal violates civil rights
…health insurance. A single payer system would be much more egalitarian, ensuring as much as possible that care would be there for anyone who needs it. Stay informed! Visit www.pnhp.org/qotd…
The Scandalous State of our Healthcare System
Why the Time is Now to Finally Make Healthcare a Right and Not a Privilege
…any industrialized nation, we still have a healthcare system where 29 million Americans are uninsured, tens of thousands of people die each year simply because they lack coverage, and medical…
Single-payer health care – its time has come
…dangers of “single-payer” health care. But, single-payer shouldn’t be the boogeyman – its time has come. As a postal worker and now president of the American Postal Workers Union, I’ve…
