by Rising Up With Sonali FEATURING DR. PAUL SONG – Thousands of people marched across the U.S. in 50 cities on Saturday July 24th to demand “Medicare for All,” and expand the current free government-run healthcare program to everyone under 65. In California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom made campaign promises to back a single payer bill […]
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By Emily J. Plympton Dear Dr. Ghaly, We are writing to you on behalf of Healthcare For All – Los Angeles to express our grave concerns regarding the conduct and efficacy of this Commission. Thus far, it has failed to produce any policy directives or legislative suggestions to support its mission of
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A new survey of 150,000 Americans finds private health care consistently ranks lower than public options.
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I’ve heard a lot of confusion about the letter Governor Newsom sent about state single payer and waivers, and I wanted to clarify what exactly he said in that letter.
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Do business owners feel single-payer is the way to go? A recent study reveals they have strong—but decidedly mixed—opinions.
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“Single-payer systems at the state-level, said one advocate of the new bill, would “demonstrate just how much better they are than our fragmented for-profit healthcare system.”
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A majority of voters support providing Medicare to every American, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Sixty-seven percent of registered voters in the July 26-27 survey said they would support providing Medicare to every American, while 33 percent oppose it. Support for providing Medicare to every American has dropped slightly since the question was first asked
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Medicare for All would create millions of new jobs and boost wages for workers, Economic Policy Institute finds
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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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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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