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Fortune: Businesses Will—and Want to—Pay for Medicare for All
Medicare for All doesn’t let employers off the hook, but it does keep commercial insurance companies from fishing us into extinction.
Joe Biden’s Zero Empathy Campaign
In a crowded primary field, Biden is setting himself apart by being uniquely bad on healthcare.
USA Today: Medicare for All is the most sensible way to fix health care
I’ve spent decades studying US health care. Time to get real: Medicare for All is the only reasonable path to controlling costs and covering everyone.
The Nation: Is the FDA Misleading Congress About the Safety of Imported Medicines?
Prescription drugs can cost 80 percent less in Canada, Australia, and the UK—why isn’t the FDA supporting safe importation?
The Threat of Medicare for Some
Candidates should not waste their platforms on weak healthcare reform proposals.
Humana CEO Signals Industry Plans to Hijack the Medicare for All Movement.
It’s the same game-plan they followed when they systematically weakened the ACA before finally getting on board.
Trump’s Greedy Budget Goes Nuclear on Medicare and Medicaid
It’s easy to get distracted by the President’s more outlandish scandals and statements, but his budget proposal is actually far more insidious.
Let’s Meet the Bad Actors of Healthcare Reform
The healthcare system is broken, and need dramatic bold reforms, but Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future won’t tell you that, because they have no interest in improving American healthcare.
New Poll: Americans Rank Healthcare as Most Difficult Expense to Pay
Debt, housing, devastating monthly healthcare payments –these are the top concerns of American households according to a new morning consult poll.
Blue Chip Employees Deserve Good Coverage, But So Does Everyone Else
A Medicare for All program addresses the same concerns, comes with the same benefits, and applies to a much larger pool of people.
New Report: It’s Actually Easy to Pay for Medicare for All
No matter how you slice it, business, workers, and patients will be paying less.
The Biggest Lies from New Insurance Industry Ads
We’ve finally seen the first ad from the new healthcare industry front group “Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future”. Watch BIHP president Wendell Potter dismantle their biggest lies.
Big Pharma has been a big disaster
Essentially, we’re letting Big Pharma stomp all over American patients, businesses, and the government, and it’s time to put a stop to it.
The US Chamber’s Grift on American Businesses
The US Chamber of Commerce purports to represent the interest of American business. But I can tell you first hand from my time working in the healthcare industry, they’re nothing more than lobbyists for the highest industry bidder.
Medicare for All, House Hearings, CBO Scores, Oh My
This is a first step in what will be a long battle to pass Medicare for All, but it’s exciting to see the new Congress beginning the process early.
“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
