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Single Payer Health Care is Having its Moment, One Vaccine at a Time

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REBECCA KOLINS GIVAN , ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RUTGERS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONSON 4/9/21 AT 7:00 AM EDT “The COVID-19 vaccination program is giving many Americans their first glimpse of an alternative to our current health care system. The horror stories we’ve grown used to—uninsured and underinsured Americans dying because they cannot afford life-sustaining medications—simply do […]

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Single-Payer Healthcare Gave Me Back My Life

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I have personal experience with single-payer health care, directly contrasting treatment for the same medical diagnosis under America’s for-profit private insurance formula, with Canada’s single-payer paradigm.

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Hands off Cuba

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RESOUNDING SUCCESS OF THE WORLD CARAVAN BY LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA. These caravans, the largest public protests in LA to defend Cuba’s sovereignty in a decade, urged Mayor Garcetti and Gov. Newsom to invite Cuban medical personnel here to assist in the pandemic crises, to end the blockade, travel ban, normalize cultural, educational &

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Racial Disparity that may be Heightened by the Pandemic:

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Hospitalization records for patients with health problems other than COVID-19 suggest that that Black adults have poorer access to outpatient care than their white counterparts. Above, an outpatient room at a UC San Diego Health clinic last year.(Kyle Dykes / UC San Diego Health)

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History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work

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“I don’t think in a social revolution you can always retain support of the moderates.”

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Sanders Campaign Co-Chairs Applaud DNC Delegates for Continuing Medicare for All Fight

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“We stand with the grassroots activists who understand that the party must stand for extending Medicare to everyone.”

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Jake Johnson, staff writer
JULY 31ST,2020

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Medicare for All: A Prescription Against Deadly COVID Capitalism 08/06/2020

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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The United States, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in world history, is also number one in COVID-19 infections and deaths. As White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Deborah Birx warned last weekend, “It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as equal urban areas. To everybody who lives in

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Small Steps Not Enough to Get to Universal Healthcare

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Imagine having to sneak out of the doctor’s office because you couldn’t afford to pay the bill, or having perfect strangers tearfully confide in you that they can no longer afford their mental health treatment. These are just two of the reasons people gave for supporting single-payer, government-financed health insurance during a pre-Democratic National Convention

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In Canada or the U.K-billing the patient like this is simply not allowed

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“In Canada or the U.K., there are no cracks of this sort: billing the patient like this is simply not allowed,” said Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program.

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Jake Johnson, staff writer

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Hawaii Was Creating A Plan For Universal Health Care

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“Even before the pandemic arrived on our shores, our health care system was in crisis.”

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