By Ralph Nader Common Dreams, December 26, 2018 Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian-style single-payer— full Medicare for all— is simple,…
Data Update – Spring 2014 newsletter
UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED
…Americans have an unfavorable view of the ACA because it doesn’t go far enough to reform the U.S. health care system. 20 percent of Americans said they wanted Congress to…
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…
Greetings From The Disunited “United States Of Canada”
…recent presidential campaign, an estimated 45 million Americans in this, the world’s most powerful and prosperous country, lack health insurance. Back in the early 1990s, only about 30 million Americans…
‘Centuries of Inequities’ & the COVID Crisis
…it does provide sort of a single-payer-like system to help take care of people. Most Americans that are involved with Medicare think it’s great so when it’s framed as though…
Pride, Prejudice, Insurance
…it’s an institution in decline. Between 2000 and 2004 the number of Americans under 65 rose by 10 million. Yet the number of nonelderly Americans covered by employment-based insurance fell…
Health Economics 101
…health coverage and refuse to vote for anyone who doesn’t pledge to make the single-payer system a reality? What do we have to do to make that happen? Neeta Moonka,…
Director's Sicko shows folly of U.S. hostility to health care for all
…email I get from Americans when I write — in a far more restrained way than Michael Moore — about medicare. A good many Americans do think that medicare (or,…
The Health Care America Wants
…on the issue, would take the bogus threat of single-payer serfdom seriously, especially if the single-payer system is pitched as “Medicare for all.” Craig Duncan Ithaca, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2007…
The press needs to tell us more about Canada's single-payer health-care system
…employers withdraw, support a European-style, single-payer health care system.” Europe has several different systems of universal health care; Canada has long had single-payer in its purest form. Yet Brooks somehow…
Private health insurance offers us sickly benefits
…the reason why the United States has a dysfunctional health care system in which over 45 million Americans lack coverage and approximately another 40 million have unreliable coverage. Americans who…
PBS Frontline Interview with T.R.Reid
…that might inspire Americans to believe that change is possible here, too. You and your family lived in London and Tokyo; what was your experience with the health care systems…
