…for supporting.” But the criticism about Gore’s apparent reversal on Bradley actually shows why endorsing single-payer has a certain political logic to it. Bradley didn’t propose a single-payer plan in…
What Obamacare Can’t Do
…universal coverage.” “Single payer healthcare,” Lemieux writes, is not interchangeable with “European-style healthcare.” He notes that some continental European countries have non-single-payer systems that achieve universal coverage through a combined…
Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say
More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer system. By Richard Eskow Moyers & Company, July 13, 2017 The idea of Medicare for all, or single-payer…
Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say
More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer system. By Richard Eskow Moyers & Company, July 13, 2017 The idea of Medicare for all, or single-payer…
Editorial: A single payer system
…whether or not the single payer system should be introduced into the U.S. is not a new or different argument. Vermont had a single payer system until the governor deactivated…
The public option in perspective
…these lonely private plans as single payer when the highly dysfunctional multi-payer system remains in place. He understands the single payer model better than most, yet his passion for the…
Troubled multi-employer plans show need for single payer
…Coalition. Hale Landes is a member of IBEW Local 134 and the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition. Published in the FVLM print editions of June 25 and July 2, 2015. http://foxvalleylabornews.com/ http://ilsinglepayer.org/article/troubled-multi-employer-plans-show-need-single-payer…
Uwe Reinhardt comments on LeBow and Sullivan
…are, let’s face it, some downsides to the single-payer approach. Single-payer systems simplify administration, reduce the need for litigation and tend to spread risks over very large, heterogeneous pools. But…
Labor Bargains for Too Little on Health Care, Gets Even Less
…much of a public option,single-payer activists are assessing the role labor played in the debate. LEAD FROM THE MIDDLE? The forces against single payer were vastthe Obama administration, most of…
Lobby Materials and Tools for Change
Background Information Congressional Visit Kit Why Obama’s Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer Public Option: Myths and Facts Refuting the Public Option Talking Points Financing single-payer national…
Bernie Sanders introduces single-payer bill in Senate
…movements for single-payer too, of course. PNHP chapters and activists are urged to visit or otherwise contact their congressional representatives to urge them to support single-payer legislation in the House…
Selected personal tributes to Dr. Quentin Young
…will note, Medicare is not even a single payer, but just one payer in our fragmented system. A real single payer program would be much better. If a physician is…
