…out the middlemen and establish our own public monopsony – a single payer national health program. That’s market control that works for the benefit of us instead of the insurers….
Respond to the NYT on insurers further limiting choice of health care
…on The New York Times website, many supportive of Medicare for all, single payer, national health program, and health care justice in general. ADD YOUR RESPONSE. Go to the article…
Financial burden on Medicare households
…coverage (such as Medigap and retiree health plans), was about two-thirds (65.4%) of Medicare households’ average health care spending in 2012, and 9.1% of Medicare household spending overall. Medical services…
Which metal tier plans are people selecting, and why?
…California’s insurance exchange established under the Affordable Care Act – over two-thirds of those who were eligible for subsidies purchased silver plans, whereas well less than one-third who were not…
CBO report on premiums
…for single policies and $15,200 for family policies under the proposal, compared with roughly $5,500 for single policies and $13,100 for family policies under current law. The majority of nongroup…
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….
‘Let us be dissatisfied!’
…support it. Yet in spite of the great popularity of single payer, many leading Democrats became convinced that single payer was not politically feasible and accepted the bill that passed….
More evidence of the expanding menace of high-deductible health plans
…health care. The supporters of HDHPs claim that health consumers can be protected by health savings accounts. Yet this study confirms that two-thirds to four-fifths of Californians with HDHPs do…
What does the election say about single payer?
Single Payer Ballot Questions Pass in All Fourteen Massachusetts Districts! Mass-Care November 3, 2010 Massachusetts voters have, for the second straight election, overwhelmingly affirmed their support for single payer health…
Alan Simpson as Captain Ahab
…percent of the total. When the top 10 percent possess more than two-thirds of total holdings, it is time to increase taxes on the rich. We could easily afford to…
Medicare for All, including the Stranger
…(We the People) to take my job IF not completely necessary to protect the liberty of others to access the common good of national health insurance. The argument of single…
Managed competition lessons from the Netherlands
…that 65-year-old beneficiaries would pay about two thirds of medical costs themselves. The myth that competition has been key to cost containment in the Netherlands has obscured a crucial reality….
