…with supposedly excellent insurance, has a hard time accessing psychiatric care, so what is needed is a comprehensive overhaul of psychiatric care in the context of a thoughtful single-payer system…
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…
A letter to our new president
…could save $350 billion/year by adopting a single-payer national health program. A single-payer program would eliminate private insurance companies and the enormous expense of their administrative costs and profits. Every…
Uwe Reinhardt on indefensible administrative costs
…insurance system in the United States. Product design, underwriting and marketing account for about two-thirds of that total. The remaining 15 percent was attributed to public payers that are not…
Himmelstein responds to Gawande on single payer
…Mokhiber CommonDreams.org February 10, 2009 As for (Gawande’s) opposition to single payer, he remains steadfast. In a q/a with New Yorker readers last week, Gawande defended his opposition to single…
President Obama's proposal to pay for reform
…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 plans, reduce Medicare and Medicaid…
Over 2.2 million Californians have medical debt
…often results in individuals delaying or forgoing needed health care. Two-thirds of Californians with medical debt were insured. The current proposal before Congress calls for a mandate to purchase private…
Biden Ran on a Return To Normalcy, but There’s Nothing Normal About the American Health Care System
In poll after poll, Americans have indicated their preference for a universal, single-payer health care system. Compromise and half-measures are not acceptable. Medicare for All remains the goal.
…disaster with nearly 250,000 Americans dead and no clear end in sight. In sharp contrast, President-elect Joe Biden pledged to mount a serious response against the coronavirus. Biden implored Americans…
The U.S. Healthcare Cost Crisis
Discover how the high cost of healthcare impacts Americans' personal finances, individual healthcare choices and perceptions of the U.S. healthcare system. A new survey from West Health and Gallup reveals financial hardships but gaps between political parties on the overall quality of the system.
Gallup, March 26, 2019 Every day, Americans are burdened by the strain and fear of ballooning healthcare costs. Yet despite the hardships many Americans endure, 64% say they are “completely”…
Dr. Reinhardt’s US Chamber of Commerce paper:
…universal health care, through single payer or any other means? Uwe tells us the vote against single payer in California was definitive; in this case the electorate was swayed by…
Replace Obamacare with single-payer national health insurance
…backward to the bad old pre-ACA days. Here’s one inspiring vision of health care reform that would lift the vast majority of Americans: single-payer national health insurance. Enactment of a…
Not far enough?
…into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, with the goal of reducing the number of uninsured Americans by making health care more affordable to Americans. It achieves…
