How We Get To Medicare For All
Nancy J. Altman, Portside Health care should be available to everyone in America as a right—automatic and free of charge when we need it. Rich or poor, sick or healthy,…
Don’t Coddle For-Profit Insurers; Take Them On!
Dr. Rob Stone, Common Dreams. Or Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Medicare For All. As a physician, my life’s goal is to practice medicine in a country where everyone…
Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year
Jessica Corbett Common Dreams Previous research has shown that shifting the United States to a Medicare for All system could save roughly 68,000 lives and $650 billion per year, but…
Abdul El-Sayed Won: Revisiting the Democratic Establishment’s Medicare for All Problem
From Gavin Newsom in California to Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, the debate over Medicare for All continues to expose the tension between campaign promises, corporate influence, and the political power…
California Democrats Keep Selling “Medicare for All” — While Protecting the System That Profits From Sickness
Joshua Scheer For nearly a decade, California Democrats have treated single-payer health care like a campaign hymn: sing it loudly during elections, bury it quietly once the donors call. Every…
The Medical-Industrial Complex Is Killing America While War Profiteers Get Rich
Joshua Scheer I posted an article from Truthout about Trump and healthcare, but nowhere in the piece did it mention Obama and the failure of his administration — and the…
Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again
The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. Sasha Abramsky for Truthout This article was originally published…
Climate Change Breeds Disease; Public Health Cuts Help It Spread
Gary Wilson, Struggle – La Lucha. Before anyone boarded the MV Hondius, the conditions for an outbreak were already forming across the landscapes where climate disruption, rodents and human activity…
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
Duaa Eldeib for ProPublica They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week…
As Mexico Enacts Universal Healthcare, Advocate Says Insurers’ ‘Stranglehold’ Is Moving US in ‘Opposite Direction’
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moves forward with a plan to enact universal healthcare for her country’s more than 130 million people, a longtime advocate…
Insurer Agrees to Pay Millions for Failing to Fix Errors That Made It Harder for Customers to Get Mental Health Care
EmblemHealth will compensate customers who paid out of pocket for mental health care because they couldn’t secure an appointment with a provider listed as being in-network. It also pledged to…
When Insurance Says No, Children Pay the Price
A new California bill aims to rein in mental health coverage denials that leave kids without care.
3 in 4 Republicans Under 45 Say They Prefer US Fund Health Care Over Israel
Support for unconditional funding for Israel is waning as Americans languish at home.
GOP Centrists Rock the House, Force ACA Subsidy Showdown
By Joshua Scheer Four centrist Republican members of the U.S. House broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition that will compel a floor vote…
Healthcare Is Hard, Lying Republicans Make It Harder
Dean Baker Beat The Press for The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) During his first term, after repeatedly promising the country a terrific health care plan, Donald Trump…