Medicare for All Could Save U.S. $600 Billion a Year
It’s our current system that’s a wasteful, unsustainable disaster. Read the article at Common Dreams.
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The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses
One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers. Read more at The New York Times.
Trump Attack on SSDI
Proposed change could end disability benefits for hundreds of thousands – read the article at Common Dreams.
Biggest Pay Raise in a Generation: Medicare for All
By Jake Johnson Medicare for All would give most U.S. workers “the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation,” two economists from the University of California, Berkeley said in October, countering one of the main…
Health Care Rationing Is Already Reality Under Private Insurance
The price of insulin in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2012. That’s put the life-saving hormone out of reach for some people like Nicole Smith-Holt’s son Alec. Read the original article at Huffington…
Health Insurance Companies Are Useless— Get Rid of Them
Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts were among only four Democratic presidential candidates who advocated abolishing private health insurance during the first round of debates. Read more at the Los Angeles…
The AMA Gets Out of the Way of #MedicareForAll
The American Medical Association has quietly pulled out of a lobbying group that seeks to undermine the growing support for Medicare For All. Read the original article at Our Future.
Reining In Drug Profiteers
Replace patent monopolies with direct public funding for drug research. Read the original article on Truthout.
Dental Care Crisis: Medicare-for-All Could Solve It
Single-payer is a far more equitable solution than expecting dentists to negotiate with insurance companies for what they can charge patients. Everyone needs teeth! Read the original article on In These Times.