…noted that at least five additional supporters of single-payer health reform were elected to Congress yesterday, including Senator-elect Tom Udall (D-N.M.), and that pro-single-payer ballot initiatives in 10 Massachusetts legislative…
Rep. Weiner withdraws single payer amendment
Rep. Weiner Withdraws Single Payer Amendment from Current Health Care Debate
…to the strength of our single payer movement. The huge number of calls by single payer advocates in support of single payer and the Weiner amendment in recent days have…
What will Vermont’s election mean for single-payer?
…Vermont on a path to single-payer. “Having him out of the picture is a big loss,” said Dr. Deb Richter, president of Vermont Health Care For All, a single-payer advocacy…
Doubling Down on Errors: Urban Institute Defends Its Ridiculously High Single Payer Cost Estimates
…by $519 billion in 2017. First, UI ignored about 75 percent of the administrative savings that single-payer reform would achieve. Second, it substantially underestimated single payer’s savings on prescription drugs….
Majority still support single-payer option, poll finds
…this month by the firm GBA Strategies. http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/229959-majority-still-support-single-payer-option-poll-finds Single Payer: It’s What the People Want New poll shows majority of Americans support such a system By Andrea Germanos Common Dreams,…
Physicians support single payer, but how strongly?
…payer. It appears that the current surge in support of single payer is not strong enough for those polled to voluntarily cite single payer as a preference to the options…
Medical students bring the AMA into the single payer dialogue
…and cons of single payer and alternative approaches to universal coverage, and study the impacts of single payer systems on physician practices and patients. As such, your Reference Committee recommends…
ACA vs. single payer: Bury the hatchet? An exchange
…more than anyone else, must recognize as a deal with the devil. If Potter won’t bury the hatchet by embracing single-payer, he should at least rescind his demand that single-payer…
Single-payer advocates win seats at White House health summit, remarks by Dr. Oliver Fein
Dr. Oliver Fein releases prepared remarks
…victory by single-payer supporters. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), chief sponsor of the single-payer U.S. National Health Care Act, H.R. 676, was invited to attend the meeting late in the…
WSJ on Vermont’s single payer effort
…Single payer never had a chance, considering the inertia in Congress. This was not a single payer failure. Do not remain silent when that claim is made. Single payer has…
More Than a Prayer for Single Payer
…opposition to single-payer is mostly fear of change. I think that they can live with a single-payer national health insurance plan, so I don’t see them as our biggest enemy….
On Kenneth Thorpe’s Analysis of Senator Sanders’ Single-Payer Reform Plan
…these current subsidies. 6. Thorpe assumes zero cost savings under single-payer on prescription drugs and devices. Nations with single-payer systems have in every case used their clout as a huge…
