By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center […]
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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
Letter to the Healthy California Commission Rebuttal Read More »
“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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Medicare for All would create millions of new jobs and boost wages for workers, Economic Policy Institute finds
Medicare for All would lead to job boom, experts say. SALON Read More »
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,
Covid Killed His Father Then Came $1 Million in Medical Bills Read More »
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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By MELODY GUTIERREZSTAFF WRITER MAY 20, 2021 5 AM PT SACRAMENTO — Healthcare advocates in California are pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget plan released last week, saying it follows a dangerous pattern of underfunding local public health agencies despite glaring funding inadequacies exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health leaders asked that $200 million in ongoing funding
What’s missing in Newsom’s budget that has public health officials worried. Read More »
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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“The fastest, most direct path to Medicare for All has always gone through the governor,” said one single-payer campaigner.
byBrett Wilkins, staff writer
Single-Payer Bill Shelved, Advocates Call on Newsom to Take Lead on Medicare for All Read More »
Medical Tourism Association President Renee-Marie Stephano shares which counties she believes are best when considering a foreign medical procedure. Plus, Harvard professor and author of “Patients with Passports” Glenn Cohen shares his tips to consider before traveling abroad for a procedure.
