Medicare for All would lead to job boom, experts say. SALON
Medicare for All would create millions of new jobs and boost wages for workers, Economic Policy Institute finds
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Covid Killed His Father Then Came $1 Million in Medical Bills
NY Times Article by Sarah Kliff One coronavirus survivor manages her medical bills in color-coded folders: green, red and tan for different types of documents. A man whose father died of the virus last fall uses an Excel spreadsheet to organize the outstanding debts. It has 457 rows, one for each of his father’s bills,
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This is why blaming doctors is pointless: America has no healthcare system
MAY 23, 2021 3 AM PT Published by the Los Angeles Times To the editor: Dr. Robert Pearl asserts that “doctor culture,” taught and learned in medical schools, is destroying the U.S. healthcare system. I disagree. America has no healthcare system. We have a healthcare industry that supports profit-making healthcare enterprises, regardless of whether
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What’s missing in Newsom’s budget that has public health officials worried.
By MELODY GUTIERREZSTAFF WRITER MAY 20, 2021 5 AM PT SACRAMENTO — Healthcare advocates in California are pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget plan released last week, saying it follows a dangerous pattern of underfunding local public health agencies despite glaring funding inadequacies exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health leaders asked that $200 million in ongoing funding
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Medicine and Social Justice
Scamming Medicare: It’s the providers and insurers, not the patients!
I have often written about universal health care and favored a single-payer system, or, in its current incarnation, Medicare for All. I still do and will have some more to say about it in a bit, but wanted to begin by providing some recent examples of the outrageous abuses of our non-system of health care. More important, abuses of the people who are supposed to be receiving health care. Actually, it is not so much that these are examples of new practices, but rather that there have been important recent articles exposing them.
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Single-Payer Bill Shelved, Advocates Call on Newsom to Take Lead on Medicare for All
“The fastest, most direct path to Medicare for All has always gone through the governor,” said one single-payer campaigner.
byBrett Wilkins, staff writer
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Medical Tourism
Medical Tourism Association President Renee-Marie Stephano shares which counties she believes are best when considering a foreign medical procedure. Plus, Harvard professor and author of “Patients with Passports” Glenn Cohen shares his tips to consider before traveling abroad for a procedure.
A telemarketer. An Alzheimer’s patient. A health insurance nightmare
She also found a letter from Anthem Blue Cross saying it was sorry that Williamson’s mom is no longer a Medicare Advantage customer. The Anthem coverage was connected to Williamson’s mom being employed in the past by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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California’s Golden Healthcare Opportunity
A 2016 study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research revealed that 71% of all healthcare expenditure in California in 2016 was paid for by taxpayers. Coupled with the previously mentioned administrative waste, Californians are essentially paying for universal healthcare, just not getting it.
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Delaying action on CalCare is a Mistake
California nurses say that delaying action on establishing guaranteed health care for the state is a mistake, Californians cannot wait. Lawmakers today are choosing to delay for another year action on AB 1400, the bill known as CalCare that would establish a guaranteed, single-payer health system for all California residents, using the excuse that they
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