‘Seems Like a Good Policy!’ CBO Shows Medicare for All Could Cover Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year.
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Sonali Kolhatkar & BETTY DOUMAS ON KPFK RADIO This is a KPFK interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Betty Doumas as a guest speak talking about California’s movement to a Single-Payer system.This is an audio recording with pictures to view Sonali Kolhatkar and Betty Doumas. The interview reveals reveals several issues that for profit healthcare has
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Why Health Care is So Expensive in the US “Why didn’t we know? To start with, unlike any other business in America, almost all of the financial transactions in healthcare are hidden from the providers as well as the patients. We order tests, procedures and medications to manage our patients, but very few doctors, or
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Building the Movement for Healthcare Justice Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal, Rep.Ayanna Pressley, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Co-chair for the Poor Peoples Campaign, Ady Barkan, Healthcare Activist, Sara Nelson, President fo the Association of Flight Attendans, Dr. Abul El-Sayed, Physican and Activist. Hold a Town Hall on Healthcare Justice
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How Anthony Rendon Sabotaged SB562 Single Payer Healthcare for California and the effects it had on the public.
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Public Citizen’s Eagan Kemp today Public Citizen’s Eagan Kemp today on the individual mandate, the Supreme Court case threatening the ACA, why the mandate is regressive, and what a Biden administration might do (or not do) to bring it back from the dead.
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The recent and sad death of Dr. Susan Moore is another example of anti-Blackness and medical apartheid. In the words of Dr. Susan Moore: “You have to show proof that you have something wrong with you, in order for you to get the medicine. I put forward, and I maintain: If I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that. Dr. Bannec made me feel like I was a drug addict, and he knew I was a physician.” This is how Black people get killed, their complaints of pain and discomfort are often either challenged, or go unaddressed. Black people often are treated using protocols and equipment that have been optimized and calibrated to serve White patients.
FLOYD BRYAN’S VIDEO Floyd Bryan Testifies at Assembly Health Committee Floyds testimony at one of the Assembly comittee Health care hearings in Sacremento. Floyd is the vice Chair of ILWU – So California Council, member of Labor United For Universal Health Care and a crane operator at the Long Beach port. He speaks about the
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Some Urban Hospitals Face Closure Or Cutbacks As The Pandemic Adds To Fiscal Woes Coronado may outlive the hospital that saved him. Founded 168 years ago as the city’s first hospital, Mercy survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 but is succumbing to modern economics, which have underfinanced hospitals serving the poor. In July, the
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What does poverty look like in the United States? “Life inside an ‘American-made’ tragedy” Accelerated by the pandemic, there are uniquely underlying reasons for the growing population of ‘working homeless’ in the United States that starts with inadequate health care. Somehow we have normalized a type of poverty that doesn’t exist in most other countries,
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