…Care Act, the law remains incapable of remedying the U.S. health crisis, physician group says Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 19,000 doctors who support single-payer national…
More Medicare Advantage audits reveal overcharges
…School of Public Health at Hunter College who supports a single payer medical system, agreed. “Medicare publishes detailed data on almost every doctor and hospital that gets paid a penny,…
What single payer advocates can learn from Australia
…caesareans, versus 29% of public deliveries.” Their private sector seems to have much in common with our medical-industrial complex. Many single payer supporters in the United States continue to advocate…
Can we celebrate the decline in the numbers of uninsured?
…universal coverage, not to mention all of the inequities that it perpetuates. In contrast, a single payer system automatically enrolls everyone, while reducing inequities. That’s the design that we need….
I just turned 26. Hereās what I learned while buying health insurance.
…my life, I could see why over 600,000 Americans are annually bankrupted by medical bills. But the holes in our health system are underscored by the percentage of those cases covered…
Generic drug pricing confirms that markets are not working
…have used to obtain value in their health care purchasing. The model most suitable for us would be a single payer national health program – an improved Medicare for all….
Why Black Lives Matter Ought to Matter to Medical Students: A Familiar Message Revisited
…persisted well after the report. Some of these disparities have been well-studied and widely cited. Black patients face a two-thirds higher risk than white patients of not receiving an analgesic…
KFF/NYT survey demonstrating the burden of medical debt, even with insurance
…suffer medical disorders, yet we add to that grief by perpetuating a system that dumps personal financial hardship on top of their medical misfortunes. The efficiencies of a single payer…
This is the right thing to do
…of beds in U.S. hospitals. In contrast, there are three people working in billing at one large Toronto, Canada, hospital. The solution is one insurance company. A single-payer system or…
Some employers exclude outpatient surgeries from their health plans
…*** Comment: By Don McCanne, M.D. One of the arguments made for choosing the incremental policies of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) over a comprehensive single payer model of reform…
Single-payer health plan wouldn’t cost U.S. more
…shuts down proposals for single-payer national health insurance. Lately, conservative pundits – and even liberals like Hillary Clinton – have been repeating the mantra that single-payer insurance would break the…
Single-Payer ‘Medicare for All’ Gets Boost From New Study
…that has long advocated for a single-payer system, seized on the study’s findings to argue that now is the time to switch to single payer, which is not a surprise,…
