…exchanges pre-empt state single-payer legislation and thereby snuff out the state-level single-payer movement? (See discussion of this issue in my opening statement for a recent live blog and the discussion…
Page and Gilens: Democracy in America?
What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
…reached levels not seen for a hundred years. While the wealthy keep piling up riches, many Americans are hurting from job losses, low wages, high health-care costs, and deteriorating public…
A single-payer system makes economic sense
…Clearly, we must move toward a single-payer system. The health insurance lobby and other opponents of single-payer care make it sound scary. It’s not. In fact, a large-scale single-payer system…
Ryan's proposals — Pay attention to insurers behind the curtain
…eligibility. And it would radically redesign Medicare, changing it from what is essentially a government-run, single-payer health plan to one in which people would choose coverage from competing private insurance…
Are Americans concerned about health care costs?
…Americans thought that these spending levels were “about right” (9 percent, nation as a whole; 11 percent, government). What concerns Americans is not aggregate spending, but the perceived negative impact…
Why we’re fighting the American Medical Association
The AMA protects corporate interests, not doctors and patients – and now it’s trying to stop Medicare for All
…why 28 million Americans still don’t have health insurance. Despite recent polls showing that a majority of doctors support the single-payer system Medicare for All, which would fully insure all…
Public now supports a universal health insurance program
…a new approach that would mean care for all Americans… By almost a 2-1 margin in this poll, 62 percent to 32 percent, Americans said they preferred a universal system…
We need a fair and accessible health care system
…Americans, 7.3% for Asian Americans and 16.1% for Hispanics.” And, the research found that black Americans have higher rates of chronic illnesses – putting them at a higher risk of…
Do you really ‘like’ your private health insurance plan?
Are You Sure You Actually 'Like' Your Private Health Insurance?
…insurance companies, they like their doctors and they like their hospitals.” https://thehill.com… Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare Coverage Kaiser Family Foundation, April 24,…
Why health profession students are fighting the AMA
Why we're fighting the American Medical Association
…the AMA put pressure on their leadership with a resolution demanding the organization suspend its decades-long opposition to single-payer. Single-payer activism is growing on medical school campuses across the nation,…
Number of Uninsured Americans Rises to 45 Million
…all physicians to become active in health policy and the movement for single payer national health insurance. Single payer could save enough on administrative costs to cover all the uninsured…
The socioeconomically deprived fare much better medically in Canada than in the USA
Care of acute conditions and chronic diseases in Canada and the United States: Rapid systematic review and meta-analysis
…“over the next generation more than 50 million Americans will be treated less optimally and die earlier than had they enjoyed a single-payer health care system like Canada’s.” Solution? Single…
