…payer’ systems. Each country’s approach to single payer is quite different. Canada is often described as the country closest to what a ‘Medicare for All’ single-payer system looks like.” Derksen…
Dr. Mitchiner explains single payer to his emergency medicine colleagues, and to all of us
…be left to the physician. Conceptually, single-payer is imbued with many myths and misconceptions. Myth #1: Single-Payer Is One-Size-Fits-All The No. 1 myth – the alpha myth – is that…
PNHP Newsletter: Spring 2023
…concern about access to quality care. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans view health care coverage as a government responsibility, and about 40% of Americans support a single-payer health care system. Seitz,…
Single-Payer or Bust
By providing a single tier of coverage to all, with automatic enrollment, comprehensive benefits, and no cost-sharing, single-payer provides a distinct—and more egalitarian—vision of universality.
…of the Saskatchewan model—of single-payer healthcare. “Single-payer is not, in itself, a principle,” declared scholar Harold Pollack last fall in Democracy. “It is one way to organize health-care financing.” An…
Dr. Mitchiner explains single payer to his emergency medicine colleagues, and to all of us
It's Time for Single-Payer
…physician. Conceptually, single-payer is imbued with many myths and misconceptions. Myth #1: Single-Payer Is One-Size-Fits-All The No. 1 myth – the alpha myth – is that single-payer represents a choiceless,…
Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack
…all, much less told anyone what it was. A search for documents later than July 1st containing single-payer OR “single payer” turned up only 197 documents. Americans have consistently told…
HJM AI-Assisted 2023 Review
2023 was another year of deteriorating US health insurance performance, especially as post-COVID protections lapsed, and continued modest gains toward single payer. For the annual summary, we set up a ChatGPT-based artificial intelligence bot on the HJM website to allow natural language interaction with HJM content – called HJM Ai-Chat. Below are sample queries and responses.
…and principles of single payer reform, reflecting the continued push for a more just and equitable healthcare system. Sources: healthjusticemonitor.org/2023/05/09/primary-care-corporate-takeover-a-challenge-for-single-payer/ healthjusticemonitor.org/2022/06/04/what-is-single-payer/ healthjusticemonitor.org/2023/11/27/saving-lives-in-the-middle-east-via-political-solution-the-us-via-health-reform/ Q: What were key health reform developments in…
Why it is difficult to make sense of the claims and counter-claims of single payer financing
…the more important reason is that people are bashing single payer reform with reports and articles based on selected taxes drawn from single payer financing proposals – particularly countering the…
Why it is difficult to make sense of the claims and counter-claims of single payer financing
…our national health expenditures! Right now the more important reason is that people are bashing single payer reform with reports and articles based on selected taxes drawn from single payer…
Jonathan Oberlander on the prospect for single payer
…at the history books — to predict the reactions that an actual single-payer plan would evoke. Single payer would also require the adoption of large-scale tax increases. Although Americans would…
Jonathan Oberlander on the prospect for single payer
…at the history books — to predict the reactions that an actual single-payer plan would evoke. Single payer would also require the adoption of large-scale tax increases. Although Americans would…
Sick and Wrong
How Washington is screwing up health care reform — and why it may take a revolt to fix it
…influential chair of the House commerce committee, have both backed away from their longtime support of single-payer. Hell, even Max-freaking-Baucus once conceded the logic of single-payer, saying only that it…
