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., 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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“Even before the pandemic arrived on our shores, our health care system was in crisis.”
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WHY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MAKES NO SENSE There is a lot of nonsense and confusion on the subject of healthcare in the United States. During the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders was criticized by fellow Democrats for wanting to raise middle-class taxes and abolish the private insurance industry. Many Democrats have defended the system of private,
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‘Seems Like a Good Policy!’ CBO Shows Medicare for All Could Cover Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year.
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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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Bring Cuban Medical Providers to LA” “Cuba has expertise with successful battles against West African Ebola, SARS and other diseases to assist us during this crisis, and they are willing to come” said Ms. Lopez, coordinator of the Hands-Off Cuba committee, organizer of the caravan. “What Cuba has done internationally and is continuing to do to save
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“After COVID-19, there is simply no excuse for the U.S. not to adopt Medicare for All and join all other rich countries by treating health care as a right.
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