We speak with healthcare activist Ady Barkan, the 37-year-old lawyer and father who, since his ALS diagnosis in 2016, has devoted his life to campaigning for universal healthcare. He has continued to speak out even after losing his voice and now uses a computerized system that converts his eye movements to speech. Barkan is […]
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Journalist Bill Moyers once worked as the special assistant to President Johnson, where he witnessed first-hand the political maneuvering that resulted in the landmark health care legislation.
Bill Moyers On Working With LBJ To Pass Medicare 52 Years Ago Read More »
How dumb is it to tie people’s health insurance to their jobs? Just ask Steve Pelletier.
Lose your health coverage? Don’t hesitate to haggle with medical providers Read More »
Medicare Advantage organizations…have some incentive to improperly inflate their enrollees’ capitation rates, if these organizations fall prey to greed.
The government lawsuit against Kaiser points to an immense fraud problem in Medicare Read More »
Sonali Kolhatkar Independent Media Institute This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Activists in more than 50 cities across the United States marched and rallied on July 24 to demand a Medicare for All or single-payer health care system. With Congress and the White House more focused on
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by Rising Up With Sonali FEATURING DR. PAUL SONG – Thousands of people marched across the U.S. in 50 cities on Saturday July 24th to demand “Medicare for All,” and expand the current free government-run healthcare program to everyone under 65. In California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom made campaign promises to back a single payer bill
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By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center
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By Emily J. Plympton Dear Dr. Ghaly, We are writing to you on behalf of Healthcare For All – Los Angeles to express our grave concerns regarding the conduct and efficacy of this Commission. Thus far, it has failed to produce any policy directives or legislative suggestions to support its mission of
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A new survey of 150,000 Americans finds private health care consistently ranks lower than public options.
Why do people hate universal health care? It turns out — they don’t. Read More »
I’ve heard a lot of confusion about the letter Governor Newsom sent about state single payer and waivers, and I wanted to clarify what exactly he said in that letter.
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