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

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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