COVID-19 and Medicare for All
The coronavirus pandemic is yet another reason for Medicare for All
Medicare For All: If Not Now, When?
Here is an important article by Dr.Adam Gaffney president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). He explains lessons from the past that brought about the dynamics of political change. We must keep pressing the solution, Medicare for All.
Laverne & Harvey and Medicare for All
A couple discuss Medicare for All at the dining room table. It’s a riot but so true!
Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It’s Medicare for All
“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”.
Labor Union Medicare for All Fight
The Labor Movement Must Fight for Medicare for All — Not Employer-Based Plans
Revenue Data on MN’s Hospital Chains
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 24th annual StarTribune list of 100 largest nonprofits in Minnesota dominated by the healthcare sector.
Health Care Administrative Costs in the United States and Canada, 2017
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 in 2017 compared with Canada’s 17%. This result in more than $600 billion excess administrative costs compared with Canada. Here is a link to the […]
What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong
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, and who pays them.
Opinion: This Is the Most Realistic Path to Medicare for All
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.
The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill
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.