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Time to Hold Hearings on Medicare for All
Now that the threat of ACA repeal is gone, it’s time to turn our attention to transforming the healthcare system.
Truthout: Trump’s Attack on Medicare for All Has Industry Fingerprints All Over It
Now that the American people are starting to wake up to their scam, the entrenched special interests have decided to cash in their favors.
Tarbell: For-profit insurance is trying to scare you
“That’s because the one thing my former employers fear more than anything else is Medicare for All, which poll after poll is showing once again that a majority of Americans support.”
MasterMind: Medicare for All Caucus is a Welcome Sign for Advocates
For a long time, it’s felt like I’ve been screaming into the void, but now things are different.
USA Today: Medicare for all is a winner for Democrats
To win, Democrats need to do more than just point fingers at Republicans and claim they’re destroying the ACA. Candidates need to take it one step further: Make Medicare for all a central part of their platform.
The Problem With Employer Sponsored Insurance
The responsibility of business owners to provide insurance to their employees is putting a strain on their budgets, making it difficult to raise wages or plan for long term growth, and is leaving many people with no coverage, or coverage that’s so expensive they can’t afford to actually use it.
Houston Chronicle: Paxton’s pre-Obamacare dream would be a nightmare for Texas
Things were great pre-ACA, unless you had the audacity to be born sick, a woman, get sick, enter adulthood, live beyond 50 or live in poverty. If you did any of those things, it got pretty rocky.
Small Businesses’ Big Health Care Problem
If the U.S. wants to support businesses and encourage entrepreneurism, then it’s time we address the health insurance elephant in the room and embrace single-payer, Medicare for All health care.
Charleston Gazette-Mail: Medicare-for-all would fix employers’ headaches
Under Medicare for all, workers would no longer need to fight tooth-and-nail just to hang on to basic coverage, or be tied to jobs they don’t want just to keep their families insured.
The Hill: Center for American Progress’ healthcare plan is a start
We can’t build the health care system we need on the foundation of a broken, profit-driven system.
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: Just one more middleman
Each step introduces another for-profit player—from drug manufacturer to insurance company to PBM—trying to maximize its own profits.
Tax Cuts Created a Budget Mess, and You’re Paying for It.
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These tax cuts were never designed to help the middle class. These tax cuts were designed as a gift to the wealthy to create an excuse to slash essential programs.
USAToday: Amazon’s health care experiment shows exactly why we need Medicare for All
The way to fix health care for all people — not just those who are employed by monolithic corporations — is to de-commercialize the health insurance system.
Pharma Profits on Patents over Patients
Pharmaceutical companies have found loopholes in the current law that allow them to artificially extend their patents, keeping prices high for desperately needed medicines.
WHYY: Health care, not taxes, is killing American competition
If congressional Republicans want to encourage businesses to expand their markets and create jobs, they’re not looking in the right place.
“We need to destroy once and for all the preposterous myth that the so-called “free market” will ever be capable of delivering the health system we need if we are to remain an economic super power.”
— Richard Master
