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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.
USA Today: Take it from me, tweaks won’t fix healthcare. Democrats should focus on Medicare for All
Democrats have the chance to be the champions of that reform if they don’t waste their energy on half-measures.
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.
“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
