GAVIN NEWSOM ON SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE Gavin Newsom talks about how good Single-Payer Healthcare could be good for California. In this pandemic every industrialized nation has been able to lower the curve of infections. All those nations use Single-Payer healthcare as a weapon against Covid-19. In a Single-Payer environment nobody would fear financial destitute Let us […]
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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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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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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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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, including Canada.
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