“Major changes are needed,” declares the 159,000-member American College of Physicians, “to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little”.
The Labor Movement Must Fight for Medicare for All — Not Employer-Based Plans
Kip Sullivan’s reaction to a recent Minneapolis StarTribune article on the tug-of-war between nonprofit hospitals and insurers over efforts to rein in costs. Plus there is a link to the …
An important updated healthcare financing study has just been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study identifies we have 34.2% administrative waste in the United States healthcare system …
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that U.S. health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, …
Much to the dismay of single-payer advocates, our current health insurance system is likely to end with a whimper, not a bang. The average person simply prefers what we know versus the bureaucracy we fear.
From the Nation: Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.
The Minnesota chapter of Veterans for Peace recently held a banner on an overpass imploring citizens to stop any privitization of veteran health care.
I recently returned from visiting family in Norway and traveling in several other European countries. A common question I was asked is why a wealthy nation like the United States …
Freshman representative Ilhan Omar (MN05) held a town hall focusing on Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (WA07) Medicare for All bill in the U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday evening. The event …
